How to Access Robot TXT on Shopify

Just like other website platforms that allow small businesses to build websites, Shopify has the legal right to limit your access to certain files that create your website. There are several reasons for this. One is security, if you’re given access, then hackers could also legally gain access to the software and then they might find security gaps within the files and use them to hack into websites.

Alternatively, you might alter their propriety software which would be against their terms and conditions. This could vastly interfere with their services. Therefore, to prevent outages they block access to FTP and this includes access to your robots.txt files.

However, Shopify does automatically generate this for you and ensures that your site is optimized for search engines. This is regardless of which of the themes you use from the Shopify Theme store. Therefore, you can be assured that your site can be ranked.