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    • EcommerceSite
      EcommerceSite last edited by

      I have a site with woocommerce. Do I need to block the cart page?

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      • Hutch42
        Hutch42 last edited by

        It is best practice to use nofollow tags and your robots.txt to keep search engines out of not only e-commerce pages, but also any areas that require a log in (such as a customer profile page or shopping history).  You want to do this so that they do not accidentally index pages that will redirect users who aren't logged in or create a weird/negative experience for them.

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          Well, i would do it! So you will sure that google will not index this useless links

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