Robots.txt File

To create your robots.txt as a template, first set the enableRobotsTXT value to true in your configuration file. By default, this option generates a robots.txt with the following content, which tells search engines that they are allowed to crawl everything:

User-agent: *

Robots.txt Template Lookup Order  

The lookup order for the robots.txt template is as follows:

• /layouts/robots.txt
• /themes/<THEME>/layouts/robots.txt

Robots.txt Template Example  

The following is an example robots.txt layout:

User-agent: *

{{range .Pages}}
Disallow: {{.RelPermalink}}
{{end}}

This template disallows all the pages of the site by creating one Disallow entry for each page.