Robots.txt Tester
SEO ToolsTest and validate your robots.txt rules for any URL.
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Test and validate your robots.txt rules for any URL.
What is Robots.txt Tester?
Validate your robots.txt file for syntax errors and test whether specific URLs are allowed or blocked by your rules.
How do you use Robots.txt Tester?
- 1Enter a real robots.txt tester input using the labels in the form above.
- 2Choose the robots.txt tester options that match your seo tools workflow.
- 3Run Robots.txt Tester, review the validation message, and confirm the output matches your page or campaign.
- 4Copy, reset, or export the reviewed robots.txt tester result, then continue with the related tools below.
What are examples of Robots.txt Tester?
Test robots rules
- Input
- User-agent: * Allow: / Disallow: /admin/ Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap.xml
- Output
- Parsed allow/disallow rules and sitemap entries.
Limitations and privacy
Review the generated result before using it on a live page, campaign, or client deliverable. Robots.txt Tester uses a secured server request only for the URL you enter, with HTTPS validation, timeouts, rate limiting, and private-network blocking. Results are not stored.
Frequently Asked Questions
The robots.txt file tells search engine crawlers which pages or files they can or cannot crawl on your website.
Syntax errors in robots.txt can accidentally block important pages from being crawled and indexed, or they may be ignored entirely by some crawlers.