Filter Bar Pretty URL Permalinks

[Craig]

I’m not sure if something I’m doing is wrong, but anytime the Filter Bar is used to narrow things down, the resulting URL isn’t pretty according to the “post name” setting I’m using. So instead of getting “/events/category/”, the URL is “/events/?tribe_eventcategory=xxx/”.

Is this normal? Since the category isn’t automatically inserted anywhere on the page, none of the category pages are indexable in a good way. It’s leaving a lot of SEO on the table.

Any fix for this that I’m missing or can customize?

Thanks,
Craig

[Barry]

Hi Craig,

What you are describing is the expected behaviour.

A regular category archive contains events in a single, specific category and that’s really easy to map to a nice and clean ‘pretty permalink’ structure, such as events/category/foo.

However, when using Filter Bar, a visitor may choose to filter down to events in one of many different categories, not just one, and the approach we’re using is more amenable to that sort of scenario — nor should it prevent pages from being indexed.

Furthermore, crawlers should ultimately continue to index the individual events that are returned and from there can discover the various category archive URLs which have the sort of URL structure you prefer.

Does that help to explain things at all? If you have further feedback or suggestions for improvement we’re definitely open to hearing them.

[Craig]

Thanks for the thorough reply, Barry. The use of multiple filters makes sense to me.

I’m not sure about the SEO prominence of the categories. I have a launch coming up with a site that has good category coverage in organic results even with a poorly optimized Magento site. I’m hoping that will continue once we launch. If I notice differences either way, I’ll be back on this thread or another one.

Thanks again…

Craig

[Barry]

For sure – let’s leave this open for the time being and let me know if you have any other thoughts or feedback later on.

Please note threads automatically close after 3 weeks without any update, however if that happens simply create a new thread and link back to this one if needed 🙂

Thanks again!

[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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