noindex on default events page – how to remove?

[Kenneth]

This post is in follow-up to the following topic that had been closed: https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/robots-noindex-tag-on-default-events-page/#post-1041422

My site’s search rank position has decreased markedly due to the default “noindex”. I tried to use a code snippet that had been posted in another thread in this forum, but the snippet crashed my site, which recovered after I removed the code.

Has there been progress on making “noindex” an optional selection? If not, then how can I disable the “noindex” default?

Thank you.

[George]

Hey Kenneth,

Thanks for reaching out.

There is unfortunately no option at this time. 🙁

In regards to removing the noindex, you can do this by adding a snippet like this to your theme’s functions.php file:


if ( class_exists( 'Tribe__Events__Main' ) ) {
add_action( 'wp', 'remove_tribe_noindex', 999 );

function remove_tribe_noindex() {
remove_action( 'wp', array( 'Tribe__Events__Main', 'issue_noindex' ) );
}
}


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I’m curious here, as well, why you think your search engine rankings have been affected by the events noindex? There are other factors on your site that might be far more likely to be the culprit, as the main /events/ feed page can actually hinder proper indexing of the site’s individual events.

Cheers!
George

[Kenneth]

This reply is private.

[George]

Glad to hear about some progress here, Ken.

This comment stood out to me as possible relevant:

to cause the calendar to appear on the “home page” for the site.

Our plugins unfortunately offer basically no support for the calendar being the actual site home page. We’re working on this, but at this time it’s hard to successfully pull off such a configuration of things, and the lack of proper configuration within our plugin for being used as a home page could indeed have been a factor with your site’s search engine rankings.

Just sharing some thoughts—let me know if you have any further thoughts on this of your own! Otherwise I can go ahead and close up this ticket.

Thank you,
George

[Support Droid]

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