diff --git a/_config.yml b/_config.yml
index 941f896..b063788 100644
--- a/_config.yml
+++ b/_config.yml
@@ -26,4 +26,9 @@ gems:
     - jekyll-sitemap
 sitemap:
     file: "/sitemap.xml"
+    exclude:
+        # Even if you can see the existence of these pages here, I don't
+        # wish to get search engine attention to them.
+        - "/bot.html"
+        - "/channel.html"
 include: [PGP, PHP, keybase.txt, robots.txt]
diff --git a/robots.txt b/robots.txt
index 6b9d944..642ca82 100644
--- a/robots.txt
+++ b/robots.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
 User-agent: *
 Allow: /
 
+# I prefer search engines to not advertise these pages even if you can find
+# them here or in `_config.yml`.
+Deny: /bot.html
+Deny: /channel.html
+
 Sitemap: https://mikaela.info/sitemap.xml