diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 00b3269..f11b60f 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ install: all
 	$(INSTALL) -m 0644 cgit.css $(DESTDIR)$(CGIT_DATA_PATH)/cgit.css
 	$(INSTALL) -m 0644 cgit.png $(DESTDIR)$(CGIT_DATA_PATH)/cgit.png
 	$(INSTALL) -m 0644 favicon.ico $(DESTDIR)$(CGIT_DATA_PATH)/favicon.ico
+	$(INSTALL) -m 0644 robots.txt $(DESTDIR)$(CGIT_DATA_PATH)/robots.txt
 	$(INSTALL) -m 0755 -d $(DESTDIR)$(filterdir)
 	$(COPYTREE)  filters/* $(DESTDIR)$(filterdir)
 
diff --git a/robots.txt b/robots.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4ce948f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/robots.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+User-agent: *
+Disallow: /*/snapshot/*
+Allow: /