Hide Events from Google Search

[Scott Talarico]

Hi. Is there a way to hide you calendar events from a Google Search? We currently have The Events Calendar set up to automatically import events from Google Calendar everyday. We now have 500+ events and are trying to make them private, so that the general public cannot see the details of the events. Is there a way to do this all at once for the events? Or can we automatically set them as private as they are imported from the database?

[Patricia]

Hey Scott,

Thank you for reaching out to us!

To prevent your calendar from being indexed by Search Engines, I would recommend you to use a SEO plugin like Yoast.

Also, to prevent individual events from being indexed, you can add the following code snippet (without the <?php opening tag) near the top of your theme’s functions.php file to add the noindex:

https://gist.github.com/elimn/397b1fc8042bf832e813

Regarding your second question, currently there is no “out of the box” way to make a members-only Calendar, but with a bit of custom coding, you can get pretty close. You will find further information about this in the following article:

https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/making-members-calendar/

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions and I’ll be happy to assist!

Best Regards,

Patricia

[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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