Rich Snippets and Wrong Links In Google Search Results

[James Burgos]

Greetings,

I’m having a similar issue as the following threads:

thread one

thread two

thread three

If you take a look at this link you’ll see that every page using the sidebar with the events widget is showing a rich snippet of our scheduled events. when you click the link, instead of going to the event, it goes to the page where the widget is being displayed.

1. Shouldn’t these links be directing to their respective events?
2. How do I prevent the rich snippets from displaying altogether without removing the widget?

We are also using Yoast SEO. FYI, we do not have the luxury of taking our site offline or switching themes to troubleshoot this problem. We have a staging site hosted by flywheel but because the nature of this issue is related to google, I doubt using it will be helpful. Please advise.

[Nico]

Hi James,

Thanks for reaching out and also thanks for taking the time to search for similar topics in the forum. As you point out this is something that happened to many users lately, so I’ll try to dive into it and see if it’s a conflict with SEO plugins (Yoast in this case).

As you aren’t able to test for conflicts in your site, I’ll suggest you do a template override of the widget view to strip the hAtom classes. To do so you need to copy the file ‘list-widget.php’ from ‘wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/views/widgets/’ over to ‘wp-content/themes/your_theme/tribe-events/widgets/’ – you can find detailed information about this in our Themer’s Guide. Once you have the file in place, go ahead an edit line 31 as shown below:


// original

// modified

Please let me know if this works for you,
Best,
Nico

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