How can I noindex individual dated events list pages

[origininspired]

Currently Google has hundreds and hundreds of similar pages, like this one, in it’s index:
http://www.origininspired.co.uk/events/2015-08-28/

Is there a way to noindex ALL of these pages? The events pages themselves are already noindex, as are the category pages, but I can’t find a way of of noindexing the individual dated event list pages.

We’re using Yoast SEO and Events Calendar Pro.

Thank you!

[Brook]

Howdy origininspired,

It’s nice to meet you. Thanks for reaching out.

You can absolutely hide those form search engines if you are so inclined. Here is a simple snippet you could paste near the top of your theme’s functions.php to add the noindex. Make sure to remove the opening <?php though if your theme already has one, you wouldn’t want an unnecessary duplicate.

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

With that snippet in place you should not see the noindex tag in your source. When Google eventually reindexes the whole site, they will remove those pages.

Does that make sense? Are you able to get that working? Cheers!
– Brook

 

[origininspired]

Hi 🙂

Thank you. That did indeed work.

One question though: will I need to readd that every time I update my theme? I’m only semi-technical, so not 100% sure.

It would be a good option to include in the plugin since, really, Google will not be taking a positive view of all of those near duplicate pages. I’m an SEO by day..

Thank you!

[Brook]

Howdy origininspired,

That’s a good idea. If you would like to publish your idea so that folks can vote their support for it, check out the feature suggestion page.

will I need to readd that every time I update my theme? I’m only semi-technical, so not 100% sure.

Good question. You probably will. However, WP has a great feature and tutorial for this dillema. The feature is called child theme (click here for tutorial). You can create a child of a theme containing any modifications you want to make to the theme. When you update the parent theme, the child will not lose its modifications.

Does that all make sense?

Cheers!

– Brook

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