diff --git a/public/robots.txt b/public/robots.txt
index 7f28f4240..a653d4593 100644
--- a/public/robots.txt
+++ b/public/robots.txt
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@
 # To ban all spiders from the entire site uncomment the next two lines:
 User-Agent: *
 Disallow: /people/
+Disallow: /u/