SaaS public site vs app crawl governance
SaaS companies often need different machine-governance rules for the marketing site and the application layer. The public site wants discoverability. The app may need far stricter crawl boundaries.
Recommended posture
Keep the public marketing surface discoverable while keeping account areas, dashboards, and low-value internal app routes tightly controlled.
Why Better Robots.txt helps
The plugin helps because this pattern is really about path hygiene, bot-family separation, and keeping the public policy understandable when the stack is mixed.
Main risk
The main risk is over-sharing app routes or creating crawl waste on low-value authenticated paths.
What Better Robots.txt is not
Better Robots.txt is not a WAF, not a signed-agent verification system, not a legal enforcement layer, and not a guarantee that every crawler will comply. It publishes a clearer WordPress policy surface and a safer workflow for the parts you can actually govern.