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Jon Huther
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December 5, 2013 at 12:03 pm
I have a page called Event Listings with [ESPRESSO_EVENTS] that lists out all the events. When you click on an event, the page title still says Event Listings although you are now on a single event registration page. Is there anyway I can have this next page be called Event Purchase so it makes more sense and doesn’t have a duplicate page title? (Actually, if I can’t, every single event registration page will have same page title, not good for SEO.)
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Josh
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December 5, 2013 at 12:26 pm
Hi Jon,
It turns out that the bots that scrape your site only index the main page that’s set up with the event shortcode.
If you want to differentiate the two views with different URL’s and page titles you can set up a second page for an event list with your Event Listings title. You’ll place [EVENT_LIST] on this page and include it in the site’s navigation menu.
Then you can change the title of the page that has [ESPRESSO_EVENTS] to Event Purchase. This page can be removed from the site’s navigation menu and you can even set it to not be indexed. One example of a plugin that makes that noindex happen:
http://yoast.com/wordpress-noindex-specific-posts-and-pages/
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Jon Huther
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December 5, 2013 at 6:08 pm
Thanks the workaround makes sense.
Out of curiosity, why would the event detail/register pages not be indexed if they have normal link tags on the [ESPRESSO_EVENTS]? I don’t see any nofollow attributes in the link tags.
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Dean
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December 6, 2013 at 5:30 am
Hi Jon,
I may not be 100% correct on this, but I believe it is because the data is dynamically generated, so as far as the bots are concerned those pages are still the original first page, because even though as a user you move through pages, in reality you are still on the event-registration page.
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Jon Huther
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December 6, 2013 at 6:28 am
I see what you’re saying, but isn’t WordPress itself one page, index.php. It then changes based on the URL, p=X, or permalinks structure. I’ll search around forums on how to have specific event registration pages have unique titles as well.
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Josh
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December 6, 2013 at 2:34 pm
If you’re looking to output a unique title tag for each event’s registration page, here is some example code in this gist that makes it happen:
https://gist.github.com/joshfeck/7832044
It can be installed as a WordPress plugin.
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