Time for action - creating robots.txt

Here we will create a robots.txt file and place it on your web server. It will keep the search engines from indexing unnecessary pages like account pages. This is good as it prevents search results about your site from becoming polluted.

1. 1. Create a file with Windows Notepad and save it without any content as robots.txt.

2. 2. Log in to your web server via FTP and transfer the file to the main/root directory of your store. This is where you uploaded all the PrestaShop files to.

3. 3. In your PrestaShop control panel, click on the Tools tab, then on Generators. The second option down to generate a robots.txt file is the one you want. Click it now.

4. 4. PrestaShop will generate a useful default robots.txt file suitable for a typical PrestaShop installation.

What just happened?

You have just respectfully marked a few areas of your store as off-limits to the search engines. However, please note this is not a security feature. It does not block access, but merely asks...