diff --git a/ghost/core/core/frontend/public/robots.txt b/ghost/core/core/frontend/public/robots.txt
index 8ad5b3f97bcf..fe721db892a6 100644
--- a/ghost/core/core/frontend/public/robots.txt
+++ b/ghost/core/core/frontend/public/robots.txt
@@ -2,5 +2,6 @@ User-agent: *
 Sitemap: {{blog-url}}/sitemap.xml
 Disallow: /ghost/
 Disallow: /email/
+Disallow: /members/api/comments/counts/
 Disallow: /r/
 Disallow: /webmentions/receive/
diff --git a/ghost/core/test/e2e-frontend/default_routes.test.js b/ghost/core/test/e2e-frontend/default_routes.test.js
index 567cf1349460..3e03a48b10d3 100644
--- a/ghost/core/test/e2e-frontend/default_routes.test.js
+++ b/ghost/core/test/e2e-frontend/default_routes.test.js
@@ -323,6 +323,7 @@ describe('Default Frontend routing', function () {
                 'User-agent: *\n' +
                 'Sitemap: http://127.0.0.1:2369/sitemap.xml\nDisallow: /ghost/\n' +
                 'Disallow: /email/\n' +
+                'Disallow: /members/api/comments/counts/\n' +
                 'Disallow: /r/\n' +
                 'Disallow: /webmentions/receive/\n'
             );