In a nutshell: You don’t want robots wasting your resources and slowing down your site if they don’t give you some kind of direct or indirect benefit. An optimal configuration will maximize your SEO results and reduce your operating costs.
You’ll need less than a minute to set your site characteristics and get a customized robots.txt configuration installed, matching your needs and easily updated without headaches. Let us to apply our experience in maintaining and optimizing sites. A clear knowledge of what we want to do and why, moved us to change the decission method from human created robots.txt to an automated system, things are simpler as they seems. Here comes to help this plugin, doing all the magic for you.
Some of your site specs will be automatically detected to reduce the manual config needs to the minimum. A few simple questions about your site will be enough to vast majority of sites.
Update procedure
Any change required to the robots.txt is applied in real time when operating in virtual file mode. If you are working in real file mode, after updating the plugin version you should click the Save Changes button in the configuration screen to regenerate the robots.txt file.