Google Webmaster Tools Launches Robots.txt Generator

posted by Christopher on March 30, 2008

{{chris}} It’s not a major announcement, but it’s interesting. Google has released into Webmaster Tools a free Robots.txt generator.

With all of the developers that Microsoft has, why can’t they simply sit back and write all of the cool tools we webmasters wish we had? Google beat them to the punch again with this simple but convenient tool for generating your robots.txt files.

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It’s an important file and getting it wrong can mean losing all of your rankings. Creating it within Google Webmaster tools at least ensures that Google can read your robots.txt – just be sure not to Disallow all spiders :)

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Comments (14 Comments)

  1. Ali
    March 30, 2008

    Its a nice new too that people need to take advantage of. I see a lot of sites who overlook the benefits you can get from a robots.txt. Especially those who run wordpress.
    A robots.txt, really helps deal with duplicate content and junk pages being indexed.

  2. Asia'h Epperson
    March 31, 2008

    I think it will be useful for those running wordpress, but not free platform blogger. Don’t think can upload to blogger, or, is there a way?

  3. Sarah
    March 31, 2008

    I have to say I am pretty excited about that cool little release. I use WordPress so this is a nice boost. Thanks

  4. Wags
    March 31, 2008

    Nice new feature. I haven’t logged into my webmaster tools for probably a week now, but I’ll have to check this out.

    Though I haven’t had any problems with robots.txt files I’ve created myself, it’s never a bad thing to have an idiot proof way to create them.

  5. SEO Submission
    April 1, 2008

    Really, it is worth feature for those who have no idea that how to make robot.txt file.

  6. Coach
    April 1, 2008

    I felt very happy while reading the article itself. This feature was very useful to people those who use wp.Really i enjoyed the post.I appreciate you for providing a valuable info.

  7. Insomnia
    April 1, 2008

    Well that’s nice of Google to actually give people something for once :o

    I’ll have to check out this tool though. Thanks for the information.

  8. Stefanie
    April 2, 2008

    Very cool. It sucks that a lot of quality content is held back by lack of knowledge about search engines, so anything to make it easier on the non-tech sorts is good for everyone (except for shady SEOs).

  9. Wiz
    April 2, 2008

    Really nice, especially for WP users like myself. Making robot.txt file can be somewhat tricky for newbies.

  10. Lisa- Add Site to DoFollow Directory
    April 3, 2008

    The average website owner/blogger has no clue what a robot.txt file is, let alone how to write one.
    I do like that some of their webmaster tools make previously complicated tasks easy for users and they even height awareness of things people didn’t even no they needed.

  11. Get Camping
    April 4, 2008

    Nice addition, not been using google webmaster tools much, you prompted me to fire it back up again.

  12. SEO Australia
    April 8, 2008

    I do worry about the guy who decides to throw up a website for his business.

    Having no understanding of robots.txt, sitemaps, paid links, nofollow etc etc can see his site buried in the SERP’s with virtually no chance of ranking.

    Seems there’s very little chance of any success online without enlisting the help of a pro, or doing an awful lot of reading…

  13. Mark
    April 25, 2008

    Pretty simple tool and pretty useless for the people already knowing the basic stuff. But it follows the trend Google is on lately – to create free tools for webmasters.

  14. SEO Company
    May 2, 2008

    Hi Mark,
    I read your comment. I think you can’t say it useless it as it might be happen that basic knowledgeable person may not be have this type of knowledge.

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