Crawling Problem

[Nathan Monk]

Hello, I have an issue linked to search crawling.

My client has reported that crawling can return over 30,000 results from the events calendar. Most pages of which are redundant. For example:

https://shakespeares-england.co.uk/event/warwick-town-centre-fun-quiz-trail/all/?tribe_event_display=past&tribe_paged=50
https://shakespeares-england.co.uk/event/warwick-town-centre-fun-quiz-trail/all/?tribe_event_display=past&tribe_paged=51
https://shakespeares-england.co.uk/event/warwick-town-centre-fun-quiz-trail/all/?tribe_event_display=past&tribe_paged=52
https://shakespeares-england.co.uk/event/warwick-town-centre-fun-quiz-trail/all/?tribe_event_display=past&tribe_paged=53
https://shakespeares-england.co.uk/event/warwick-town-centre-fun-quiz-trail/all/?tribe_event_display=past&tribe_paged=54
https://shakespeares-england.co.uk/event/warwick-town-centre-fun-quiz-trail/all/?tribe_event_display=past&tribe_paged=55
https://shakespeares-england.co.uk/event/warwick-town-centre-fun-quiz-trail/all/?tribe_event_display=past&tribe_paged=56
https://shakespeares-england.co.uk/event/warwick-town-centre-fun-quiz-trail/all/?tribe_event_display=past&tribe_paged=57
https://shakespeares-england.co.uk/event/warwick-town-centre-fun-quiz-trail/all/?tribe_event_display=past&tribe_paged=58
https://shakespeares-england.co.uk/event/warwick-town-centre-fun-quiz-trail/all/?tribe_event_display=past&tribe_paged=59
https://shakespeares-england.co.uk/event/warwick-town-centre-fun-quiz-trail/all/?tribe_event_display=past&tribe_paged=6
https://shakespeares-england.co.uk/event/warwick-town-centre-fun-quiz-trail/all/?tribe_event_display=past&tribe_paged=60
https://shakespeares-england.co.uk/event/warwick-town-centre-fun-quiz-trail/all/?tribe_event_display=past&tribe_paged=61
https://shakespeares-england.co.uk/event/warwick-town-centre-fun-quiz-trail/all/?tribe_event_display=past&tribe_paged=62
https://shakespeares-england.co.uk/event/warwick-town-centre-fun-quiz-trail/all/?tribe_event_display=past&tribe_paged=63
https://shakespeares-england.co.uk/event/warwick-town-centre-fun-quiz-trail/all/?tribe_event_display=past&tribe_paged=64
https://shakespeares-england.co.uk/event/warwick-town-centre-fun-quiz-trail/all/?tribe_event_display=past&tribe_paged=65
https://shakespeares-england.co.uk/event/warwick-town-centre-fun-quiz-trail/all/?tribe_event_display=past&tribe_paged=66
https://shakespeares-england.co.uk/event/warwick-town-centre-fun-quiz-trail/all/?tribe_event_display=past&tribe_paged=67
https://shakespeares-england.co.uk/event/warwick-town-centre-fun-quiz-trail/all/?tribe_event_display=past&tribe_paged=68
https://shakespeares-england.co.uk/event/warwick-town-centre-fun-quiz-trail/all/?tribe_event_display=past&tribe_paged=69
https://shakespeares-england.co.uk/event/warwick-town-centre-fun-quiz-trail/all/?tribe_event_display=past&tribe_paged=7
https://shakespeares-england.co.uk/event/warwick-town-centre-fun-quiz-trail/all/?tribe_event_display=past&tribe_paged=70
https://shakespeares-england.co.uk/event/warwick-town-centre-fun-quiz-trail/all/?tribe_event_display=past&tribe_paged=71
https://shakespeares-england.co.uk/event/warwick-town-centre-fun-quiz-trail/all/?tribe_event_display=past&tribe_paged=72

Or ical ‘duplicates’:

https://shakespeares-england.co.uk/event/ghost-walks/2018-09-15/
https://shakespeares-england.co.uk/event/ghost-walks/2018-09-15/?ical=1

Or event extremely old monthly archives:

https://shakespeares-england.co.uk/events/1970-08/

So my question is this: How do I prevent these (and similar) from being crawled?

I am in a multisite instance of WP, and also use Yoast SEO for other SEO requirements.

[Cliff]

Hi, Nathan.

Please review https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/google-increase-in-404-errors/#post-1354667 — a similar topic — and let me know if you have any follow-up questions on this topic.

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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