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James Murrin
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February 23, 2018 at 4:05 am
Our event is called “Guildford Beer Festival 2018” and the slug for this is guildford-beer-festival-2018
If you go to google and do a search for ‘Guildford Beer Festival 2018’ this comes up:
https://guildfordbeerfestival.co.uk/event-category/guildford-beer-festival-2018/
and I don’t want it to! If you click the link, it opens a page which is rather fragmented, and I don’t want visitors to come to this page directly.
Could you tell me how I could get it out of the search engine results, without disrupting the ticket-taking process? I’m using Yoast’s SEO plugin
Could I do a redirect, if that wouldn’t throw the ticket flow out, and redirect visits to the /tickets/ page? (Which isn’t the event page, I’ve embedded the code for the ticket selectors for that event onto a regular page called /tickets/)
Many thanks.
Dee
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Tony
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February 23, 2018 at 4:48 am
Hi Dee,
Could I do a redirect, if that wouldn’t throw the ticket flow out, and redirect visits to the /tickets/ page? (Which isn’t the event page, I’ve embedded the code for the ticket selectors for that event onto a regular page called /tickets/)
Yes you could setup a redirect without causing a problem if you prefer, the page you are referring to is the EE category archive created in WP so its not critical for your.
Another option is to use a snippet to add a meta tag telling search engines not to index that page, an example of that can be found here:
https://gist.github.com/Pebblo/9b83bb937b9cd3f2d5465535d7875c9f
You can add that to your themes functions.php file or create a custom functions plugin and add it to that:
https://eventespresso.com/wiki/create-site-specific-plugin-wordpress-site/
Note that function tells search engines not to index any of the EE category archive pages, not just that specific one.
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James Murrin
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February 23, 2018 at 12:35 pm
Many thanks Tony, I’ll use Yoast’s SEO to do the ‘no index’ for the Events (espresso-events). Will that achieve the same thing? Dee
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Josh
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February 23, 2018 at 12:50 pm
That might also cause the single event page to not be indexed so if you use the plugin to add no index meta tags it’s advised to check the source of the pages you want to be indexed and make sure they still allow indexing.
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James Murrin
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February 23, 2018 at 1:49 pm
Hello Josh, thanks for your reply. Just to clarify, I’ve got the ticket selectors on a page called /tickets/ so as far as I’m aware, I’m not using the single event page. Is my understanding correct? In which case, can I use the yoast plugin to no-index the espresso-events? Many thanks. Dee
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Josh
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February 23, 2018 at 2:49 pm
You could but it is still advised to check the source of the pages you want to be indexed and make sure they still allow indexing and also check the source of the pages that you don’t want to be indexed and make sure they request no index.
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