Index, follow versus disallow

hideath said:

yes, the bots won't simply crawl the pages, in majority of cases at least,
while nofollow pages will be crawled and the links included will be considered,
and possibly pass some link juice or/and used for crawling

so to answer your question, yes disallow a page in robots.txt will simply prevent the bots from crawling it,
so any meta tag included won't really matter

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onedaydayone said:

If I include these lines in the robots.txt file:

Disallow: /*add-to-cart=*
Disallow: /*per_row=*
Disallow: /*shop_view=*
Disallow: /*per_page=*
Disallow: /*remove_item=*

Does it mean that Google won't crawl those pages and won't make them live (indexed/follow), even if they already have 'content='index, follow' tags?

In this situation, does the disallow function serve as the more important and primary indicator for Google to inspect?

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onedaydayone said:

BUT if I change the tags from 'content='index, follow' to 'content='noindex, nofollow', I will prevent all paths from appearing on the SERP, even if they have external links or are included in the sitemap?

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