diff --git a/build.sh b/build.sh
index ffad0977f5..e25449ad84 100755
--- a/build.sh
+++ b/build.sh
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ npm run build
 
 rsync -ra  public/ "${TARGET}/instance/static"
 cp dist/index.html  "${TARGET}/instance/static/index.html"
-cp robots.txt "${TARGET}/instance/static/robots.txt"
 rsync --delete -ra dist/static/ "${TARGET}/instance/static/static"
 rsync --delete -ra images/ "${TARGET}/instance/static/images"
 rsync --delete -ra sounds/ "${TARGET}/instance/static/sounds"
diff --git a/public/robots.txt b/public/robots.txt
index 58cb95a71f..4ca9ba0659 100644
--- a/public/robots.txt
+++ b/public/robots.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 # See http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html for documentation on how to use the robots.txt file
-#
-# To ban all spiders from the entire site uncomment the next two lines:
  User-agent: *
  Disallow: /web
  Disallow: /settings
@@ -11,4 +9,4 @@
  Disallow: /pages/DMCA.html
  Disallow: /oauth
  Disallow: /search
-
+ Disallow: /tag
diff --git a/robots.txt b/robots.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 4ca9ba0659..0000000000
--- a/robots.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-# See http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html for documentation on how to use the robots.txt file
- User-agent: *
- Disallow: /web
- Disallow: /settings
- Disallow: /login
- Disallow: /user-search
- Disallow: /registration
- Disallow: /cgi-bin
- Disallow: /pages/DMCA.html
- Disallow: /oauth
- Disallow: /search
- Disallow: /tag