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Feed the robots tasty snacks to improve your site’s SEO and AIO.
<h4>Really TRULY Free</h4>
The only truly free, feature-rich WordPress SEO plugin with no paid upgrades, no upsells, and no bloat. All features, all users, unlimited websites, no catch. Forever.
I like and use the “Big 3” myself, but I don’t like their pricing models and often, I just need the nuts and bolts of basic SEO features without constant upsell nags throughout the admin. I don’t need flashy SEO scores or advanced features or AI writers. I don’t want a setup wizard or a labyrinth of settings pages to navigate through to find one little toggle.
<a href="https://robotfood.me/" rel="nofollow ugc">Robot Food</a> isn’t fancy, it’s just useful, which is also the right mindset for SEO itself. If you want to get into the weeds, <a href="https://backlinko.com/google-ranking-factors" rel="nofollow ugc">you can</a>, but SEO isn’t really all that complex or mysterious and can be boiled down to two simple steps:
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<li>Be useful. Have quality content or offer worthwhile tools or services.</li>
<li>Be tasty. Have a website that’s secure, fast, and structured well, so it’s easy for both humans and bots to navigate.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Features</h4>
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<li>Title format and separator control</li>
<li>Default and homepage-specific title and meta description</li>
<li>Default social share image for Open Graph, X Cards, and RSS feed</li>
<li>Schema markup for the site (WebSite, Organization/Person, Article/WebPage per post, BreadcrumbList) including automatic breadcrumb schema</li>
<li>Schema markup for individuals (name, profession, email, phone, website, and socials)</li>
<li>Per-post overrides for title, description, canonical, social title, social description, social image, schema type, primary category, noindex, and excluding from the sitemap and llms.txt</li>
<li>Sitemap with option to exclude post types, individual posts, and terms</li>
<li>Granular noindex controls for 404s, search results, archives, author pages, attachments, feeds, pagination, and custom URL paths</li>
<li>Pagination canonicals (prev/next)</li>
<li>robots.txt customization via WordPress filter</li>
<li>.htaccess rules to force HTTPS, remove www, and a 301 redirects manager</li>
<li>Tracking & verification (Google Analytics 4, Google Tag Manager, Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster, Meta Pixel, Microsoft Clarity, Hotjar, Pinterest Tag, TikTok Pixel, X Pixel)</li>
<li>llms.txt with smart defaults and customizable header</li>
<li>Works with all public post types including WooCommerce, bbPress, and other custom post types</li>
<li>Single settings page with live search</li>
<li>No setup wizard, no admin bar, no bloat</li>
</ul>

Robot Food

Feed the robots tasty snacks to improve your site's SEO and AIO.

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.

Robot Food vs Virtual Robots.txt