How do I find my robots.txt file?

Finding your robots.txt file on the front-end

Crawlers will always look for your robots.txt file in the root of your website, so for example: https://www.contentkingapp.com/robots.txt. Navigate to your domain, and just add “/robots.txt”.

If nothing comes up, you don’t have a robots.txt file yet. Don’t worry, we explain here how to create a robots.txt file.

In case you want to update your robots.txt file: keep on reading.

Finding your robots.txt file on the back-end

If you’re using a Content Management System (CMS), you may be able to manage it in there.

Your robots.txt in WordPress

We’ve explained where to find your robots.txt file in WordPress in this article covering the most popular plugins Yoast SEO, Rank Math and All in One SEO.

Pro tip

If you’re working on a WordPress website that hasn’t gone live yet, and you find the following contents in your robots.txt:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

then check your settings under: Settings > Reading and look for Search Engine Visibility.

If the box Discourage search engines from indexing this site is checked, WordPress will generate a virtual robots.txt preventing search engines from accessing the site.

Magento 2

In Magento 2, your robots.txt file is located here:

Content > Configuration (Under Design).
There, edit the settings for Main Website instead of the Default Store View, because the latter won’t allow you to change the robots.txt file.