Do I need a separate robots.txt file for my shop subdomain?

[sjbridle]

Hello Mozzers!

Apologies if this question has been asked before, but I couldn't find an answer so here goes...

Currently I have one robots.txt file hosted at https://www.mysitename.org.uk/robots.txt

We host our shop on a separate subdomain https://shop.mysitename.org.uk

Do I need a separate robots.txt file for my subdomain? (Some Google searches are telling me yes and some no and I've become awfully confused!

[ThomasHarvey]

Yes, I would have a seperate robots.txt files.

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

It depends what currently is in your robots.txt. Usually it would be useful to have another one for your subdomain.

[sjbridle]

Currently we just have: User-agent: *

I'm in the process of optimising.

[eyepaq]

You go be fine without one. You only need one if you want to manage that subdmain: add specific xml sitemaps links in robots.txt, cut access to specific folders for that subdomain.

if you don't need any of that - just move forward without one.

[sjbridle]

Thank you. I want to disallow specific URLs on the subdomain and add the shop sitemap in the robots.txt file. So I'll go ahead and create another!