Duplicate Google Rich Snippets

[Pragmatic]

Hi I’m having issues with rich snippets for events duplicating in search results on event pages.

[Geoff]

Hey there, and welcome back to the forums!

Sorry to hear you’re having issues with rich snippets–could you elaborate a little more and tell me under what conditions duplicated content is appearing in search results?

For example:

• What search term(s) is returning the duplicated results?
• Is the issue only happening with specific events, or all events?
• Are the affected events configured differently than ones that are not affected?
• Are you using any other plugins that handle rich snippets, SEO or caching?
• Have you added any of your own rich snippets to the site?
• Have you made any modifications to The Events Calendar templates or plugin files?

For what it’s worth, the plugin already includes the necessary snippets needed to properly display listed events in search results.

Let’s start there to see how we can help troubleshoot.

Cheers!
Geoff

 

[Pragmatic]

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[Geoff]

Thanks for following up–the additional info is super helpful.

I see exactly what you mean. When I search Real Estate Capital Germany Forum 2015, there are two rich snippet listings for the same event in the search result listing.

I haven’t been able to replicate the same issue in any of my tests. But, if you notice, the information for the second/duplicated event in the listing appears different from the first one (screenshot). That leads me to believe that there is another plugin attempting to do the same work that calendar is already doing and producing an unnecessary extra event.

I would suggest walking through our troubleshooting steps to see if there is a conflict. It will be mighty tough to test the results, though, since Google caches its results. You will likely need to deactivate all other plugins, clear your site’s cache, then wait or request for Google’s cache to clear as well.

Alternately, you can set up a test site in a subdirectory of your server and test with a fresh WordPress install that only has Modern Tribe plugins installed and a default WordPress theme activated. That would allow you to test without any interruption to your existing site.

Also, I see in our system that we have some nice updates coming to rich snippets in the next release. I doubt it will address this specific issue, but I thought you would find that interesting and useful. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

[Geoff]

Hello David! This thread has been quiet for a few weeks, so I’m going to go ahead and close it. Please feel free to open a new one if any other questions come up and we’d be happy to help. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

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