diff --git a/exampleSite/config/_default/config.toml b/exampleSite/config/_default/config.toml
index 81a24ea8..cf448d31 100644
--- a/exampleSite/config/_default/config.toml
+++ b/exampleSite/config/_default/config.toml
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ removePathAccents = true  # Workaround for https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issu
 summaryLength = 30  # Listing summary length in words. Also, see `abstract_length` in `params.toml`.
 paginate = 10  # Number of items per page in paginated lists.
 enableEmoji = true
+enableRobotsTXT = true
 footnotereturnlinkcontents = "<sup>^</sup>"
 ignoreFiles = ["\\.ipynb$", ".ipynb_checkpoints$", "\\.Rmd$", "\\.Rmarkdown$", "_files$", "_cache$"]
 
diff --git a/layouts/robots.txt b/layouts/robots.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2baf3f9a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/layouts/robots.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+User-agent: *
+
+Sitemap: {{ "sitemap.xml" | absURL }}