Within The Events Calendar, there are many links that impact SEO positively. Being a calendar, however, there can be situations where links and even whole pages should not be indexed\u2014an example being month view, which has the ability to paginate nearly infinitely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To improve SEO, The Events Calendar implements sensible defaults that discourage infinite page crawling by search engine bots – all of the ways that we inject meta tags can be overridden with simple filters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this section, we\u2019ll talk about the various approaches to influencing search engine crawlers (automated inspection and indexing of a site).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An important thing to keep in mind:<\/strong> Your events should all be reachable in your sitemap.xml, which search engines use to index specific pages. So, if an event view is set as noindex<\/em> and\/or nofollow<\/em>, the events are still findable via the sitemap.xml.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Due to the near-infinite nature of these views, we take the stance to add the following noindex, nofollow meta tag to your page\u2019s header.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This tells the search engine crawler to avoid indexing the page and to avoid following links on the page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Due to the nature of these views, we don\u2019t need to be as aggressive with blocking everything<\/em>. Instead, we only insert a meta tag <\/strong>if there are no events <\/strong>on the page. When inserting the meta tag, we use noindex, follow<\/em>, and add the following tag to the header:<\/p>\n\n\n\n This tells the search engine crawler to avoid indexing the page, but it can follow links on the page that are not set to nofollow<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We do not inject <\/strong>a noindex<\/em>, nofollow<\/em>, or follow<\/em> meta tag on single event pages. If you wish to add a meta tag of your choosing, you will have to do so through some other means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Note: we <\/em>do<\/em><\/strong> inject meta tags where appropriate on Organizer and Venue pages, but that can be altered with a filter that we talk about below.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n We do not inject<\/strong> a noindex<\/em>, nofollow<\/em>, or follow<\/em> meta tag if the main events view is set as the site\u2019s homepage. This approach is non-overridable, so if you wish to add a meta tag of your choosing to your homepage, you will have to do so through some other means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Because shortcode usage is meant for extreme flexibility, we do not inject<\/strong> a noindex<\/em>, nofollow<\/em>, or follow<\/em> meta tag onto pages with event views included via shortcodes. If you wish to add a meta tag to a page with a shortcode, you will have to do so through some other means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We provide a handful of filters that allow you to prevent or change the meta tag additions on your views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This filter allows you to globally change whether the meta tag gets included on pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here\u2019s an example that prevents meta includes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here\u2019s an example that prevents meta includes for the list and day view:<\/p>\n\n\n\n This filter allows you to individually change whether the meta tag gets included on specific views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here\u2019s an example that prevents the meta from being included in the month view:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here\u2019s another example that prevents the meta being included on the photo view from Events Calendar Pro:<\/p>\n\n\n\n This filter allows you to change the content attribute (i.e. noindex, nofollow<\/em>) of the injected meta tags.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here\u2019s an example where we change the week view\u2019s content attribute to noindex, follow<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n This filter allows you to change the post types that are allowed to have meta tags injected into them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Here\u2019s an example where we remove Venues from the list of allowable post types:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Within The Events Calendar, there are many links that impact SEO positively. Being a calendar, however, there can be situations where links and even whole pages should not be indexed\u2014an example being month view, which has the ability to paginate nearly infinitely. 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<meta name=\"robots\" id=\"tec_noindex\" content=\"noindex, nofollow\" \/><\/code><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nDay, list, map, photo, summary, and other similar list-style views<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<meta name=\"robots\" id=\"tec_noindex\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/><\/code><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nHow does this impact single event pages (hint: it doesn\u2019t)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
What if my home page is the events page?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
What about pages with the event shortcodes?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Overriding default SEO approaches<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
tec_events_seo_robots_meta_include<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
add_filter( 'tec_events_seo_robots_meta_include', '__return_false' );<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\nadd_filter( 'tec_events_seo_robots_meta_include', function( $do_include, $view ) {\n\n if ( in_array( $view, [ 'list', 'day' ] ) ) {\n\n return false;\n\n }\n\n return $do_include;\n\n}, 10, 2 );\n\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\ntec_events_seo_robots_meta_include_$view<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
add_filter( 'tec_events_seo_robots_meta_include_month', '__return_false' );<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\nadd_filter( 'tec_events_seo_robots_meta_include_photo', '__return_false' );<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\ntec_events_filter_wp_robots_meta_directives<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
add_filter( 'tec_events_filter_wp_robots_meta_directives', function( $robots ) {\n\t\t\n\t\t $view = tribe_context()->get( 'view' );\n\t\t\n\t\t if ( ! $view ) {\n\t\t\n\t\t return $robots;\n\t\t\n\t\t }\n\t\t\n\t\t if ( $view !== 'week' ) {\n\t\t\n\t\t return $robots;\n\t\t\n\t\t }\n\t\t \n\t\t\t$robots['noindex'] = true;\n\t\t\t$robots['nofollow'] = false;\n\t\t\n\t\t return $robots;\n\t\t\n\t\t}, 10 );\n\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\ntec_events_seo_robots_meta_allowable_post_types<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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