Title: robots.txt
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# robots.txt

 *  [KYSean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kysean/)
 * (@kysean)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/robotstxt-15/)
 * Hi all, another beginner question. How do I get the robots.txt to show up and
   or how to edit it? thanks, Sean

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 *  [codingpet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codingpet/)
 * (@codingpet)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/robotstxt-15/#post-3006600)
 * It’s in the root of your hosting. You can connect the hosting via FTP and find
   it in the root folder. You can edit it by text editor e.g. notepad.
 *  Thread Starter [KYSean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kysean/)
 * (@kysean)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/robotstxt-15/#post-3006603)
 * The best place to add this meta is where? Before or after other meta tags? Thanks,
   Sean
 *  [Krishna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/1nexus/)
 * (@1nexus)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/robotstxt-15/#post-3006651)
 * Robots meta tag is added in the head section of your theme. Robots.txt file is
   added to your root directory of your hosting account.
 *  Thread Starter [KYSean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kysean/)
 * (@kysean)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/robotstxt-15/#post-3006664)
 * Please bare with me, I’m new to this. I have access to all my files but am not
   sure what file under root I would go into to add the robots.txt file. My hosting
   is through Host Gator if that helps the answer at all. Thanks, Sean
 *  [codingpet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codingpet/)
 * (@codingpet)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/robotstxt-15/#post-3006752)
 * the “public_html” is the root folder of hostgator.
 *  Thread Starter [KYSean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kysean/)
 * (@kysean)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/robotstxt-15/#post-3006753)
 * Thank you. I’ll look at it there and see what I can do. Hopfully not screw anything
   up;) thanks, Sean

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/robotstxt-15/#post-3006753)
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