diff --git a/components/site/src/lib.rs b/components/site/src/lib.rs
index fb8747d..e7de7da 100644
--- a/components/site/src/lib.rs
+++ b/components/site/src/lib.rs
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ impl Site {
         // TODO: Tera doesn't use globset right now so we can load the robots.txt as part
         // of the glob above, therefore we load it manually if it exists.
         if path.join("templates").join("robots.txt").exists() {
-            tera.add_template_file(path.join("templates").join("robots.txt"), None)?;
+            tera.add_template_file(path.join("templates").join("robots.txt"), Some("robots.txt"))?;
         }
 
         let content_path = path.join("content");
diff --git a/components/site/tests/site.rs b/components/site/tests/site.rs
index 0c6a307..98b4bc0 100644
--- a/components/site/tests/site.rs
+++ b/components/site/tests/site.rs
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ fn can_build_site_without_live_reload() {
     assert!(!file_contains!(public, "sitemap.xml", "draft"));
 
     // robots.txt has been rendered from the template
-    assert!(!file_contains!(public, "robots.txt", "Hello"));
+    assert!(file_contains!(public, "robots.txt", "User-agent: gutenberg"));
 }
 
 #[test]
diff --git a/test_site/templates/robots.txt b/test_site/templates/robots.txt
index e965047..75e6189 100644
--- a/test_site/templates/robots.txt
+++ b/test_site/templates/robots.txt
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
-Hello
+User-agent: gutenberg
+Allow: /