Marios Alexandrou

Virtual Robots.txt is an easy (i.e. automated) solution to creating and managing a robots.txt file for your site. Instead of mucking about with FTP, files, permissions ..etc, just upload and activate the plugin and you’re done.
By default, the Virtual Robots.txt plugin allows access to the parts of WordPress that good bots like Google need to access. Other parts are blocked.
If the plugin detects an existing XML sitemap file, a reference to it will be automatically added to your robots.txt file.

Virtual Robots.txt

Awesome, a simple solution to a common issue (site content managers who want to hide certain pages from Google search results).

Just a little note: in my case, the existing Sitemap created by the plugin "Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator" by Arne Brachhold wasn't detected.

Efficient and unobstrusive

I like the fact that it's so clean. Thanks for building it!

Does the Job

Virtual Robots.txt automatically creates a robots.txt file for your site. Your robots.txt file can be easily edited from the plugin settings page.

Denis Bisteinov

Have you encountered an obstacle while creating and editing robots.txt file on your website?
Bisteinoff SEO Robots.txt is an easy-to-use plugin that helps you generate and configure a correct robots.txt file, which is essential for search engine optimization (SEO). This file defines crawling rules for search engine bots such as Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Yandex, and others.
The plugin works perfectly both if the file robots.txt has never been created or if it already exists. Once installed the plugin makes an optimized robots.txt file that includes special rules common for WordPress websites. After that you can proceed further customization specific for your own website if needed.
If the plugin detects one or several Sitemap XML files it will include them into robots.txt file.
No FTP access, manual coding or file editing is required that makes managing settings easy and convenient!
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Automatic generation of optimized robots.txt with WordPress-specific rules</li>
<li>Special rules for Google and Yandex search engines</li>
<li>Custom rules support for any search engine bot</li>
<li>Automatic sitemap detection and inclusion</li>
<li>WooCommerce compatibility with specific rules</li>
<li>Multisite support</li>
<li>Easy-to-use admin interface</li>
<li>Modern PHP architecture with namespaces for conflict-free operation</li>
</ul>

Bisteinoff SEO Robots.txt

An easy-to-use plugin that generates and configures a proper robots.txt file, essential for effective search engine optimization (SEO).

Virtual Robots.txt vs Bisteinoff SEO Robots.txt