Panth Robots SEO gives a Magento 2 store control over how search engine crawlers and LLM crawlers are allowed to read it. It serves a generated /robots.txt per store view, sets an X-Robots-Tag header on every frontend response, rewrites the HTML <meta name="robots"> tag to match, and adds an admin grid for per-user-agent allow and disallow rules.
The module replaces the /robots.txt router shipped with Magento_Robots with its own router and controller, so the robots.txt textarea under Content > Design > Configuration is no longer what crawlers see. Merchants and SEO teams use it to keep customer, checkout, search and layered-navigation pages out of the index and to decide which LLM crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, Bytespider and others) may crawl the store. All of this happens at the controller and plugin level, so Hyva and Luma storefronts behave the same way.
Product page: kishansavaliya.com/magento-2-robots-seo.html
- Generated
/robots.txtper store view, assembled from the LLM crawler toggles, the Robots Policies grid, the crawl-delay, the configuredSitemap:lines and aHost:line. No static file is read from disk. - Yes/No toggle per LLM crawler. A crawler set to No is written as
User-agent: <name>followed byDisallow: /. - Custom robots.txt body per store view that replaces the generated output.
X-Robots-Tagresponse header on every frontend response:noindex, nofollowfor 404, 410, 500 and 503 responses, for.pdf,.doc,.docx,.xlsand.xlsxURLs and for configured private paths;noindex, followfor catalog search pages and layered-navigation filtered pages; otherwise the configured default directive.- HTML
<meta name="robots">rewritten with the same rules through a plugin onMagento\Framework\View\Page\Config. Anoindexvalue set by another module is kept. - Noindex path list with
*wildcards. A default list of 25 customer, checkout, wishlist, sales, contact and similar paths ships inetc/config.xml. - List of query parameters (
utm_*,gclid,fbclidand others) that do not mark a page as filtered, so landing URLs with only tracking parameters stay indexable. max-image-previewandmax-snippetdirectives appended to the header and meta values.- Robots Policies admin grid with add, edit, delete, mass enable, mass disable and mass delete, store view scope and priority, stored in the
panth_seo_robots_policytable. - robots.txt Preview page in the admin showing the body that is currently served, with a link to the live URL.
- Every directive, user-agent and path passes
Service\DirectiveValidatorbefore it reaches a header or the robots.txt body; control characters and unknown directive tokens are rejected. - Optional debug log in
var/log/panth_robots_seo.log.
| Platform | Versions |
|---|---|
| Magento Open Source | 2.4.4, 2.4.5, 2.4.6, 2.4.7, 2.4.8 |
| Adobe Commerce | 2.4.4, 2.4.5, 2.4.6, 2.4.7, 2.4.8 |
| PHP | 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4 |
| Themes | Hyva, Luma |
Composer constraints from composer.json: magento/framework ^103.0, magento/module-store ^101.1, magento/module-backend ^102.0, magento/module-config ^101.2, magento/module-catalog ^104.0, magento/module-cms ^104.0, magento/module-ui ^101.2.
- Magento Open Source or Adobe Commerce 2.4.4 to 2.4.8
- PHP
~8.1.0 || ~8.2.0 || ~8.3.0 || ~8.4.0 mage2kishan/module-core^1.0(Panth_Core; declares the Panth Extensions admin menu and configuration tab)- Suggested:
hyva-themes/magento2-default-themewhen the storefront runs Hyva
The module declares a load sequence after Panth_Core, Magento_Store, Magento_Backend, Magento_Catalog, Magento_Cms and Magento_Robots.
composer require mage2kishan/module-robots-seo
bin/magento module:enable Panth_Core Panth_RobotsSeo
bin/magento setup:upgrade
bin/magento setup:di:compile
bin/magento cache:flushsetup:di:compile is only needed in production mode. The module ships no files under view/*/web, so no static content deploy is required.
setup:upgrade runs three data patches: InstallDefaultRobotsPolicy seeds default policy rows when the table has no All Store Views rows, InstallRobotsTxtRewrite adds a robots.txt entry to url_rewrite for every store, and RefreshRobotsTxtRewrite re-points older robots.txt rewrites to this module's controller.
Check the result:
bin/magento module:status Panth_RobotsSeo
# STORE_URL is the base URL of the store view, without a trailing slash
curl -s "$STORE_URL/robots.txt"
curl -sI "$STORE_URL/customer/account/login" | grep -i x-robots-tagAdmin path: Stores > Configuration > Panth Extensions > Robots & LLM Bots (section id panth_robots_seo, ACL resource Panth_RobotsSeo::config). Every field can be set at default, website and store view scope; the module reads all values at store view scope.
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
Enable Module (enabled) |
Yes | Master switch for the X-Robots-Tag header and the meta robots rewrite. When No, neither plugin changes the response. The /robots.txt controller keeps serving the generated body regardless of this switch. |
Debug Logging (debug) |
No | When Yes, each X-Robots-Tag decision (URI, status code, directive) is written to var/log/panth_robots_seo.log. |
Default Meta Robots (default_directive) |
index,follow |
Directive used when no noindex rule matches. Comma-separated tokens; allowed tokens are index, noindex, follow, nofollow, noarchive, nosnippet, noimageindex, notranslate, max-snippet, max-image-preview, max-video-preview, unavailable_after, none and all. max-snippet and max-video-preview need an integer value, max-image-preview needs none, standard or large. An invalid value falls back to index,follow. |
Noindex Layered-Nav Filtered Pages (noindex_filtered) |
Yes | Emits noindex,follow when the request carries product_list_order, product_list_dir, product_list_limit or product_list_mode, or any query parameter that is not p, id, category, ___store, ___from_store or one of the ignored parameters below. |
Noindex Search Result Pages (noindex_search_results) |
Yes | Emits noindex, follow on every URL under /catalogsearch/. |
Query Parameters That Do Not Make A Page "Filtered" (ignored_query_params) |
utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign, utm_term, utm_content, utm_id, gclid, gbraid, wbraid, dclid, fbclid, msclkid, ttclid, twclid, li_fat_id, mc_cid, mc_eid, _gl, ref, affiliate, yclid, igshid, epik, s_kwcid |
Comma or whitespace separated, case-insensitive. Shown only when the filtered-pages option is Yes. Leave blank to treat every unknown parameter as a filter. |
Noindex URL Paths (one per line) (noindex_paths) |
25 patterns: /customer/*, /checkout, /checkout/*, /wishlist, /wishlist/*, /sales/*, /contact, /contact/*, /contacts, /contacts/*, /catalogsearch/*, /multishipping/*, /newsletter/manage, /newsletter/manage/*, /review/customer/*, /captcha, /captcha/*, /sendfriend/*, /paypal/*, /downloadable/customer/*, /vault/*, /giftcard/customer/*, /rewards/*, /oauth/*, /connect/* |
Paths that receive noindex,nofollow on both the meta tag and the header. One pattern per line; * matches anything; lines starting with # are ignored. Patterns are matched against the URL path without the query string, case-insensitively, and a trailing slash is optional. Leaving the field blank uses the built-in default list. |
max-image-preview Directive (max_image_preview) |
large |
large, standard or none. Appended to the header and meta values; none omits the directive. |
max-snippet Directive (max_snippet) |
-1 |
Appended as max-snippet:<value>. -1 means unlimited; a positive integer limits the snippet length. |
Crawl-delay (seconds) (crawl_delay) |
0 |
Written as Crawl-delay: under U
BC4B
ser-agent: * in robots.txt. 0 omits the line. |
Each field is a Yes/No select. Yes writes Allow: / and No writes Disallow: / for every user-agent listed for that field.
| Setting | Default | User-agents written |
|---|---|---|
Allow GPTBot (OpenAI) (gptbot) |
Yes | GPTBot |
Allow ClaudeBot (Anthropic) (claudebot) |
Yes | ClaudeBot, Claude-Web |
Allow Google-Extended (google_extended) |
Yes | Google-Extended, GoogleOther |
Allow CCBot (Common Crawl) (ccbot) |
No | CCBot |
Allow PerplexityBot (perplexitybot) |
Yes | PerplexityBot |
Allow Bytespider (ByteDance) (bytespider) |
No | Bytespider |
Allow ChatGPT-User (chatgpt_user) |
Yes | ChatGPT-User |
Allow OAI-SearchBot (oai_searchbot) |
Yes | OAI-SearchBot |
Allow Anthropic-AI (anthropic_ai) |
Yes | anthropic-ai |
Allow Cohere-AI (cohere_ai) |
Yes | cohere-ai |
Allow Amazonbot (amazonbot) |
Yes | Amazonbot |
Allow Applebot-Extended (applebot_extended) |
Yes | Applebot-Extended |
Allow Facebookbot (facebookbot) |
Yes | FacebookBot |
Allow Meta-ExternalAgent (meta_externalagent) |
Yes | meta-externalagent |
YouBot, PetalBot, Diffbot, AI2Bot, Omgilibot and Timpibot have no toggle and are always written with Allow: /.
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
Use Custom robots.txt Body (override_enabled) |
No | When Yes, the custom body below replaces the generated robots.txt. Crawler toggles, policy rows, crawl-delay and sitemap lines are ignored. |
Custom robots.txt Body (custom_body) |
empty | Served as entered. CRLF and CR line endings are normalised to LF, null bytes are removed and a trailing newline is added. Shown only when the override is Yes. |
Sitemap URL(s) (one per line) (sitemap_urls) |
empty | One entry per line, written as Sitemap: lines. Accepts an absolute http(s) URL, a path starting with / (prefixed with the store base URL) or the {{base_url}} token. Duplicates are collapsed and entries that do not resolve to an http(s) URL are skipped. Blank writes a single Sitemap: <base_url>/sitemap.xml line. Shown only when the override is No. |
GET /robots.txt is answered by Controller\Robots\Index for the current store view with Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8. The robots.txt response itself carries X-Robots-Tag: noindex. Unless the custom body override is on, the body is generated in this order:
- Two comment lines with the store id and the generation time in UTC.
- One block per LLM crawler:
User-agent: <name>followed byAllow: /orDisallow: /according to the toggles. - Active rows from the Robots Policies grid whose store view is the current store or All Store Views, grouped by user-agent and ordered by priority (lowest first). Each row becomes
Allow: <path>orDisallow: <path>. Rows whose user-agent is one of the LLM crawler names from step 2 are skipped; those crawlers are controlled by the toggles only. If no row exists forUser-agent: *, a built-in block is written instead withDisallow:lines for/index.php/,/catalog/product_compare/,/catalog/category/view/,/catalog/product/view/,/catalogsearch/,/checkout/,/customer/,/customer/account/,/customer/account/login/,/newsletter/subscriber/new/,/review/product/,/sendfriend/,/wishlist/,/*?SID=,/*?___store=,/*?p=*&product_list_order=,/*?product_list_dir=,/*?product_list_limit=and/*?product_list_mode=.Crawl-delay:is added underUser-agent: *when the configured value is above 0. - The
Sitemap:line(s) and aHost:line with the host of the store base URL.
On first install InstallDefaultRobotsPolicy seeds, for All Store Views, seven Disallow rows for User-agent: * (/checkout/, /customer/, /cart/, /catalogsearch/, /review/, /sendfriend/, /wishlist/) and six Allow / rows for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, PerplexityBot and Bytespider. The six crawler rows are not emitted because of the rule in step 3.
Google's reference for the file format: How Google interprets the robots.txt specification.
Plugin\Response\XRobotsTagPlugin runs before every frontend response is sent (frontend area only, module enabled, not /robots.txt) and sets the header using the first matching rule:
- HTTP status 404, 410, 500 or 503:
noindex, nofollow. - URL path ending in
.pdf,.doc,.docx,.xlsor.xlsx:noindex, nofollow. - Path under
/catalogsearch/with Noindex Search Result Pages on:noindex, follow. - Path matching the Noindex URL Paths list:
noindex, nofollow. - Otherwise the resolved default:
noindex,followwhen the request is a filtered listing (see the General group), or the Default Meta Robots value;max-image-previewandmax-snippetare appended.
Plugin\Page\RobotsMetaPlugin wraps getRobots() on the page config (frontend area only, module enabled, not /robots.txt) and returns, in order: noindex,nofollow for the document extensions above; noindex,follow under /catalogsearch/ when that option is on; noindex,nofollow for a matching noindex path; the incoming value when another module already set a noindex; otherwise the resolved default with the max-image-preview and max-snippet directives. Every returned value is validated the same way as the header.
Google's reference for these directives: Robots meta tag, data-nosnippet, and X-Robots-Tag specifications.
The admin menu Panth Extensions > Robots & LLM Bots has three entries:
- Robots Policies (
panth_robots_seo/policy/index): grid with filters, mass Delete, Enable and Disable actions and per-row Edit and Delete. The edit form has User-agent (letters, digits, space and. _ - + * /only;*for the default block), Directive (Allow or Disallow), Path (must start with/;*wildcards are passed through to robots.txt), Store View, Priority (lower numbers are written first, default 10) and Active. - robots.txt Preview (
panth_robots_seo/robots/index): read-only view of the generated body and the live URL. - Configuration: opens the Robots & LLM Bots section described above.
The module registers no cron jobs, console commands, observers or web API routes.
- Module name:
Panth_RobotsSeo; Composer package:mage2kishan/module-robots-seo; PHP namespace:Panth\RobotsSeo; version 1.2.2. - Service contract:
Api\RobotsPolicyInterfacewithgetMetaRobots(string $entityType, int $entityId, int $storeId),getHeaderRobots(...),getRobotsTxt(int $storeId)andgetLlmBotPolicy(int $storeId). Preference:Model\Robots\PolicyResolver, which also exposes theLLM_BOT_CONFIG_MAPandLLM_BOTSconstants. Model\Robots\MetaResolverresolves the directive for a request and appends the advanced directives. When apanth_seo_resolvedtable exists (created by Panth_AdvancedSEO) it reads per-entity directives from it; the plugins shipped here call the resolver without an entity, so that lookup is only reached through the interface.Service\DirectiveValidator(isValidDirective,sanitizeDirective,isValidUserAgent,isValidPath,isValidAction) andService\NoindexPathMatcher(isNoindexPath,getPatterns) hold the validation and matching rules.Helper\Configexposes typed getters for every setting and theXML_*path constants.- Plugins (frontend area,
etc/frontend/di.xml):Plugin\Response\XRobotsTagPlugin::beforeSendResponseonMagento\Framework\App\Response\Http(sortOrder 10) andPlugin\Page\RobotsMetaPlugin::afterGetRobotsonMagento\Framework\View\Page\Config(sortOrder 20). - Preference (frontend area):
Magento\Robots\Controller\Routeris replaced byController\Router\RobotsRouter, which matches the pathrobots.txtand dispatchesController\Robots\Index. - Routes: frontend frontName
seo_robots(seo_robots/robots/index); admin frontNamepanth_robots_seo. - ACL resources:
Panth_RobotsSeo::managewith childrenPanth_RobotsSeo::robots,Panth_RobotsSeo::policiesandPanth_RobotsSeo::policies_saveunderPanth_Core::panth_extensions;Panth_RobotsSeo::configunderMagento_Config::config. - Table
panth_seo_robots_policy:policy_id,store_id(foreign key tostore, cascade delete),user_agent,directive(allowordisallow),path,priority,is_active,updated_at. The name is shared with Panth_AdvancedSEO so both modules can use the same rows. - UI components:
panth_robots_seo_policy_listing(data sourcepanth_robots_seo_policy_listing_data_source, collectionModel\ResourceModel\RobotsPolicy\Grid\Collection) andpanth_robots_seo_policy_form(Ui\Component\Form\DataProvider\PolicyFormDataProvider). - Logging: virtual types
Panth\RobotsSeo\Logger\LoggerandPanth\RobotsSeo\Logger\Handlerwrite tovar/log/panth_robots_seo.log. - Unit test:
Test/Unit/Model/Robots/MetaResolverFilterParamsTest.php.
bin/magento module:disable Panth_RobotsSeo
composer remove mage2kishan/module-robots-seo
bin/magento setup:upgrade
bin/magento setup:di:compile
bin/magento cache:flushKeep Panth_Core if other Panth extensions are installed. The module ships no uninstall script, so the following remain after removal: the panth_seo_robots_policy table and its rows, the panth_robots_seo/* values in core_config_data, the robots.txt rows in url_rewrite (description Panth_RobotsSeo dynamic robots.txt), and var/log/panth_robots_seo.log if debug logging was used. Once the module is removed, Magento's own robots.txt handling applies again.
- Product page: kishansavaliya.com/magento-2-robots-seo.html
- Contact: kishansavaliya.com/contact
- Email: kishansavaliyakb@gmail.com
- GitHub issues: github.com/mage2sk/module-robots-seo/issues
Proprietary, as declared in composer.json. The package is published on Packagist and can be installed with Composer; see the product page for the terms of use.
See CHANGELOG.md.
- Website: kishansavaliya.com
- All extensions: kishansavaliya.com/magento-extensions.html
- GitHub: github.com/mage2sk/module-robots-seo
- Packagist: packagist.org/packages/mage2kishan/module-robots-seo