Events widget meta data issue

[Daniel]

Hello

I’ve noticed that Google is picking up meta information from the events calendar widget that I have in the footer area of my website. So the events information is being displayed underneath the meta information on google search results for every page on my website – and looks very odd / out of context. I have the Yoast SEO plugin where I can edit the page meta but no matter what I do the events information is still being picked up.

So the question is – is there anyway / a setting to make Google ignore the events widget information?

I’ve attached an image to illustrate the issue

thanks

Dan

[Andras]

Hello Dan,

Thanks for getting in touch! Let me try to help you with that.

Try copying this snippet into your theme’s functions.php file, this should stop the generation of the structured data of the events.

add_filter( 'tribe_json_ld_markup', '__return_empty_string' );

Note that this will remove the structured data for all events on every page, so you might want to tweak that to fire only on the pages you need.

It might also happen though that Google is clever enough to still parse the data or it leaks out elsewhere. If you continue to hit issues after some time has passed we can try to take another look.

I also see that you are using a caching plugin, so after entering the data in Yoast and / or adding that snippet you will need to empty your cache. And it will also take google some time (dunno exactly but it could be a week) to re-index your page. You might know this already, I thought I would share just in case.

Let me know if that helps.

Cheers,
Andras

[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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