Free Robots.txt Tester Tool
Quickly validate your robots.txt file and test any crawl rule. Drop in the file, enter any URL path, and see immediately whether Googlebot, Bingbot, or any custom user-agent is allowed or blocked—no server calls, 100% browser-side.
Why Use This Free Robots.txt Tester?
Prevent Crawl Errors
Catch mistakes before they block important pages or expose sensitive content to search engines.
Save Crawl Budget
Ensure search bots focus on your valuable content by properly blocking low-value pages.
Protect Private Content
Verify that admin areas, staging sites, and internal resources are properly protected from indexing.
Analyze Your Robots.txt
Paste your robots.txt content below and test any URL path instantly
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Test URL Path
Parsed Rules
How to Use This Free Robots.txt Tester
Testing Steps
- 1. Paste your complete robots.txt file content
- 2. Enter a URL path to test (e.g., /blog/post.html)
- 3. See instant results: ALLOWED or BLOCKED
- 4. Review which specific rule matched
- 5. Export your validated robots.txt file
Common Directives
- • User-agent: Specifies which bot the rules apply to
- • Disallow: Blocks access to specified paths
- • Allow: Explicitly permits access (overrides Disallow)
- • Sitemap: Points to your XML sitemap location
- • Crawl-delay: Sets delay between requests (seconds)
Robots.txt Best Practices
🎯 WordPress-Specific Considerations
WordPress sites have unique directories and files that need careful robots.txt configuration. Common patterns include blocking /wp-admin/, allowing /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php for functionality, and managing plugin and theme directories.
For sites using Autopilot for automated content, ensure your robots.txt doesn't accidentally block important feed URLs or API endpoints that the plugin needs to function properly.
Essential WordPress Blocks
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /search/
Important Allows
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/
Allow: /*.css$
Allow: /*.js$
Common Mistakes
- • Blocking CSS/JS files
- • Forgetting wildcards (*)
- • Wrong sitemap URL
- • Conflicting rules order
WordPress Robots.txt Integration
Proper robots.txt configuration is crucial for WordPress SEO. Our Autopilot plugin automatically manages robots.txt rules to ensure optimal crawling and indexing of your content.
Manual Configuration
- • Edit robots.txt manually via FTP
- • Test each rule individually
- • Update when site structure changes
- • Monitor for crawl errors
With Autopilot AI
- ✓ Smart robots.txt generation
- ✓ Automatic rule optimization
- ✓ Dynamic sitemap integration
- ✓ Built-in crawl monitoring
Advanced Robots.txt Features
Pattern Matching
This tool supports advanced pattern matching:
- • * matches any sequence of characters
- • $ matches end of URL
- • /folder/ matches the folder and everything in it
- • *.pdf$ matches all PDF files
User-Agent Specific Rules
Target specific search engines:
- • Googlebot: Google's main crawler
- • Bingbot: Microsoft Bing crawler
- • Slurp: Yahoo's crawler
- • *: All crawlers (default)
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