diff --git a/components/templates/src/builtins/robots.txt b/components/templates/src/builtins/robots.txt
index b345a1a10c..b6ac790cee 100644
--- a/components/templates/src/builtins/robots.txt
+++ b/components/templates/src/builtins/robots.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 User-agent: *
+Disallow:
 Allow: /
 Sitemap: {{ get_url(path="sitemap.xml") }}
diff --git a/docs/content/documentation/templates/robots.md b/docs/content/documentation/templates/robots.md
index 40a108959b..c93ff73bbb 100644
--- a/docs/content/documentation/templates/robots.md
+++ b/docs/content/documentation/templates/robots.md
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ and the default is what most sites want:
 
 ```jinja2
 User-agent: *
+Disallow:
 Allow: /
 Sitemap: {{/* get_url(path="sitemap.xml") */}}
 ```
diff --git a/test_site/templates/robots.txt b/test_site/templates/robots.txt
index 3da696f461..be62e4f6d9 100644
--- a/test_site/templates/robots.txt
+++ b/test_site/templates/robots.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 User-agent: zola
+Disallow:
 Allow: /
 Sitemap: {{config.base_url}}/sitemap.xml