SEO & Discoverability
What is a Disallow rule?
A Disallow rule tells search engines not to crawl specific pages or folders, such as internal admin areas.
Updated April 24, 20261 min read
SEO & Discoverability
A Disallow rule tells search engines not to crawl specific pages or folders, such as internal admin areas.
It tells search engines not to crawl a specific page or folder. For example, the default rule blocks your /admin/ area so Google never indexes your internal dashboard, only your public website gets seen.