Unblock Shopping Cart Page

[poolguy]

Is it weird to remove the View Cart page from being blocked in robots.txt if it has links pointing to it?

[Daylan]

I guess you gotta ask if there any benefit of that page/content being crawled or indexed?

The view cart pages I would've thought would be completely dynamic and built/based on individual user interaction and have not much (if any) relevant content that would benefit your site. I'd guess that blocking this page is pretty standard for shopping carts.

Not too sure if this helps, but i found this site that put together a handy little list of recommended excludes for a few popular CMS's.

[RyanKent]

Keep in mind that any page which requires a user to log in to view it wont be crawled anyway. There is no need to block these types of pages.

I mentioned this information because many shopping cart pages like the "view cart" page require a user to be logged in to access the page. It depends on the particular cart configuration.

[poolguy]

Yea, you don't have to login in this case.  I think it could provide benefit to someone if the View Cart page were to come up in the Sitelinks when someone searches for the particular brand.

I think I'll go ahead and remove from robots.txt.

Thanks