Should we use the Disallow to stop crawling add-to-cart and add-to-wishlist?

Hello @webmakers2011,
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Thank you so much for getting in touch.
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Using the provided rules in your robots.txt can help save crawl budget by preventing search engines from accessing unnecessary or low-value URLs, especially for dynamic parameters like filters, cart actions, and other sorting queries.
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However, these rules won’t directly improve rankings but can improve crawl efficiency, indirectly benefiting SEO. Ensure important pages aren’t accidentally blocked, and regularly monitor your site’s indexability in?Google Search Console.?
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These rules are generally safe and beneficial if applied thoughtfully.
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Hope that helps.

Thanks for the response!

Awhile ago we have just added this to the robots.txt:

Disallow: /*?*

But after awhile we received a message from Google Ads for Circumventing systems and needed a month to restore the accounts for those websites. However they have restored them…

Now even if we add these:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*add-to-cart=*
Disallow: /*add_to_wishlist=*
Disallow: /*filter_*
Disallow: /*orderby_*
Disallow: /*min_price*
Disallow: /*stock_status*
Disallow: /*?s=*
Disallow: /*?woodmart_reviews_sorting*
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

I will make sure to also add this to the file, since it makes the adsbot crawl everything:

User-agent: Adsbot-Google
Disallow:

Hello @webmakers2011,
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Adding a separate rule for Google Adsbot is a good thing. It will make sure that the rules you have added above don’t prevent Adsbot from crawling the site.
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