Robots.txt Tester
Verify if your critical pages are crawlable. Test your robots.txt against Googlebot, Bingbot, and others.
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What Is the Robots.txt Tester?
The Robots.txt Tester lets you check whether a specific URL on your website is accessible to a particular search engine bot. It fetches your robots.txt file, parses the rules, and tells you if the URL would be allowed or blocked.
- URL Testing: Enter any page URL to check if it's accessible to the selected bot.
- User Agent Selection: Test against different bots — Googlebot, Bingbot, GPTBot, and more.
- Rule Matching: See exactly which robots.txt rule matches your URL, so you can debug issues.
Why Testing Matters
A single mistake in your robots.txt can have devastating consequences. Testing specific URLs against specific bots prevents accidental blocking of important pages.
Accidentally adding 'Disallow: /' under 'User-agent: *' will de-index your entire website from every search engine.
Common Mistakes
Avoid these frequent robots.txt errors:
- Wildcard blocking: Using
Disallow: /underUser-agent: *blocks your entire site from all bots. - Forgetting trailing slashes:
Disallow: /adminblocks/admin,/admin/, and/administrator. - Case sensitivity: Paths in robots.txt are case-sensitive.
/Admin≠/admin. - Not testing after changes: Always validate with a tester tool before deploying updates to robots.txt.
How to Use This Tool
Enter the full URL you want to test, select the bot (User Agent) you want to test against, and click "Test URL". We'll fetch your robots.txt, evaluate the rules, and show you whether the URL is allowed or blocked — along with the exact rule that matched.
Frequently Asked Questions
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