Creating a Custom robots.txt File for Shopify
Shopify automatically generates a robots.txt
file for your store, but you can create a custom one to better control how search engines crawl your site. Follow these steps:
- Go to your Shopify admin panel.
- Navigate to Online Store > Preferences.
- Scroll down to the Search engine listing preview section and click Edit website SEO.
- In the Custom robots.txt section, you can add your custom rules. For example:
User-agent: * Disallow: /checkout/ Disallow: /cart/ Allow: /products/
- Click Save to apply your changes.
Creating a Custom robots.txt File for WooCommerce
For WooCommerce, you can create or edit the robots.txt
file directly in your WordPress installation. Here’s how:
- Access your WordPress admin panel.
- Navigate to SEO (if you have an SEO plugin like Yoast SEO installed) > Tools > File editor.
- If you don’t have an SEO plugin, you can use an FTP client or your hosting file manager to locate the
robots.txt
file in the root directory of your WordPress installation. - Edit the
robots.txt
file to include your custom rules. For example:User-agent: * Disallow: /checkout/ Disallow: /cart/ Allow: /product/
- Save the file and upload it back to your server if you used an FTP client.
By customizing your robots.txt
file, you can better control which parts of your eCommerce site are crawled and indexed by search engines, improving your SEO performance.