Robots.txt Generator
Generate and customize robots.txt for your Blogger website efficiently.
Enter Your Website
Enter your website URL (e.g. https://www.example.com)
Robots Settings
Configure rules for search engine crawlers.
Allow all search engines
Allow all crawlers to access your site
Block search result pages
Prevent indexing of /search pages
Allow Blogger label pages
Allow indexing of category pages
Block Blogger archive pages
Prevent indexing of /archive pages
Block tag pages
Prevent indexing of tag pages
Block ?m=1 (mobile version)
Block mobile version duplicate URLs
Block ?updated-max
Block infinite pagination URLs
Block ?max-results
Block max-results URLs
Crawl Delay
0 = No delay (recommended)
Include main sitemap
https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml
Include pages sitemap
https://www.example.com/sitemap-pages.xml
Your Robots.txt (Live Preview)
Your robots.txt file will be generated here.
Quick Presets
Choose a preset configuration.
Blogger Default
Recommended for most blogs
Tool Website
Best for tool & utility sites
News Website
Perfect for news & magazine
Personal Blog
Ideal for personal blogs
Portfolio Site
Great for portfolio websites
E-commerce
Optimized for online stores
Custom Settings
Create your own configuration manually
Guide to Blogger Robots.txt Configuration
This Custom Robots.txt Generator is designed specifically for developers and webmasters using the Blogger (Blogspot) ecosystem. Modifying your website’s crawling directives tells search engines which pages to index and which to ignore. Because a syntax error can accidentally hide your site from Google Search, this tool generates properly formatted, error-free rules in real time.
What Exactly is a Robots.txt File?
The robots.txt file is a standard text file placed at the root directory of your website. It acts as a set of instructions for search engine crawlers (like Googlebot, Bingbot, Yahoo Slurp, and Yandex). Before a crawler examines any HTML page or image on your server, it first requests the robots.txt file to determine which directories, parameters, or files it is allowed to crawl, and which it must ignore.
It is important to understand a fundamental SEO rule: robots.txt controls crawling, not indexing. If you block a page using robots.txt, Google cannot crawl the content to see what is on it. However, if other websites link to that blocked URL, Google may still index the URL itself (displaying a result without a snippet). To remove a page entirely from Google’s index, you must use a noindex meta tag in the page header, not robots.txt.
How Blogger Architecture Handles Robots.txt
Unlike self-hosted platforms where you have direct access to your server’s root files, Blogger dynamically generates your robots.txt based on backend settings. By default, Google provides a standard robots.txt for all Blogspot domains that allows visibility while managing your crawl budget. The default structure looks like this:
User-agent: * Disallow: /search Allow: /search/label/ Sitemap: https://yourblog.com/sitemap.xml
Blogger architecture relies on “Labels” (Categories) to group posts. Because label URLs inherently contain the /search/label/ path, the Allow: /search/label/ directive must always be placed before the Disallow: /search directive. If you reverse this order or omit the allow rule, you will accidentally block Google from discovering your category pages, which can affect your website’s internal linking structure.
Custom Robots Header Tags vs. Robots.txt
Many beginners confuse Custom Robots Header Tags (Meta tags) with the Custom Robots.txt file. They serve two different purposes in technical SEO.
- Robots.txt: Tells crawlers where they can and cannot travel on your server to conserve your Crawl Budget. Use this to block infinite parameter URLs (like
?m=1or?updated-max) which create redundant paths that slow down the indexing of your articles. - Custom Robots Header Tags: These inject meta tags into the actual HTML
<head>of your pages. Use these tags (likenoindex, nofollow) on your Archive, Author, or 404 pages to explicitly tell Google to drop them from the search results index.
Optimizing Crawl Budget
Search engines allocate a specific “Crawl Budget” to your domain, which limits how many pages they will fetch per day. If your Blogger site utilizes complex Labels, dynamic Archives, and heavily appended query strings, Googlebot might utilize its daily budget crawling duplicate URLs rather than your core articles.
By using this generator to block parameters like ?updated-max= and ?m=1, you streamline the crawler’s path. This ensures that every time Google visits your site, it focuses purely on discovering your latest blog posts and important landing pages, resulting in more efficient indexing.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Not necessarily. Blogger’s default, hidden robots.txt is highly optimized and perfectly fine for 90% of standard blogs. You only need a custom robots.txt if you are running into specific crawl budget issues, need to block massive amounts of parameter URLs (like ?m=1), or want to submit secondary sitemaps (like sitemap-pages.xml).
The asterisk (*) is a wildcard character in regular expressions. When placed next to User-agent, it commands that the rules following it apply to all search engine crawlers globally (Google, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, DuckDuckGo, etc.) rather than specifying just one particular bot like Googlebot.
This warning triggers if you attempt to submit a URL for indexing in GSC that falls under a Disallow directive. For Blogger users, this happens most commonly if they accidentally use “Disallow: /search” without first adding the vital “Allow: /search/label/” line above it.
Log in to your Blogger Dashboard. Go to Settings on the left sidebar. Scroll down to the “Crawlers and indexing” section. Toggle the switch for “Enable custom robots.txt”. Then click “Custom robots.txt” and paste the code generated by our tool inside the text box.
sitemap.xml is automatically generated by Blogger and contains URLs for all of your standard Blog Posts. However, it does not include standalone static Pages (like your About, Contact, or Privacy Policy pages). Adding sitemap-pages.xml explicitly tells Google where to find those critical static pages.
Googlebot typically caches your robots.txt file for 24 hours. After you update it in the Blogger backend, you can log into Google Search Console, navigate to the Robots.txt Tester tool, and click “Submit” to ask Google to fetch the updated version immediately.