diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index cfd22a8039cba3001b171c73a005034c39761545..9723102fbf222a41d7425880bad64e75952b7018 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@
<meta charset="UTF-8"/>
<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico"/>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"/>
- <title>CloWM</title>
+ <title>CloWM - Cloud-based Workflow Manager</title>
+ <meta name="description" content="The Cloud-based Workflow Manager (CloWM) is a service hosted at Bielefeld University that can transform your Nextflow workflow into a public webservice and provide compute and storage resources for executing your registered workflow"/>
<script src="/env.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
diff --git a/public/robots.txt b/public/robots.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..425b9009cc803d48afe473fd660965af121b1f73
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/robots.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+User-agent: *
+Disallow: /dashboard
+Allow: /login