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  • March 31, 2017 at 11:36 pm #1262936
    titusraj
    Participant

    Hi,

    Any methods to SEO my homepage which is the main events page.

    I am using Yoast SEO Plugin. I have added meta description to all post types relating to events, but no luck.

    html lang=”en-GB” prefix=”og: http://ogp.me/ns#”>

    <head>
    <meta charset=”UTF-8″ />
    <meta name=”viewport” content=”width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=no”>
    <meta name=”apple-mobile-web-app-capable” content=”yes” />
    <meta name=”msapplication-tap-highlight” content=”no”/>
    <meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=edge” />
    <link rel=”profile” href=”http://gmpg.org/xfn/11&#8243; />
    <link rel=”pingback” href=”https://raceconnections.com/xmlrpc.php&#8221; />
    <!– BuddyPress and bbPress Stylesheets are called in wp_head, if plugins are activated –>
    <title>Upcoming Events – Race Connections</title>
    <style>#frm_buddypress-edit-activity textarea { width: 100%; }</style>
    <!– This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v4.5 – https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/ –>
    Many Thanks
    Titus

    April 5, 2017 at 3:30 pm #1265443
    Trisha
    Member

    Hello, Titus!

    Thanks so much for your patience! Our entire company was out last week on our annual team retreat so response times have been a bit slower than usual. We are ramping back up quickly though 🙂

    I did a bit of research on this and it seems to be a bit of an ongoing issue so I decided to write an extension for you. This is normally outside our scope of support but I felt it warranted here.

    I’m attaching a zip file that you should install and activate just like a plugin. It is an extension for the Events Calendar so it won’t work on it’s own.

    Once you activate the plugin there will be a new tab called ‘SEO‘ in ‘Events > Settings‘. Fill in the field with the description you want to have in the meta tag and hit submit. It should be automatic from there.

    Let me know if you run into any problems at all or if you have any questions. I’m happy to help!

    Cheers,
    Trisha

    tribe-ext-add-meta-description-to-events

    April 6, 2017 at 3:07 am #1265735
    titusraj
    Participant

    Hi Trisha,

    That is awesome, I noticed you might have written this for the month view.

    Yoast plugin already works for the month view.

    I need it to work for the photo view which is my homepage. This is the site
    http://www.raceconnections.com

    This is the page source, I have activated the plugin and added a meta
    description, but it does not appear.


    Upcoming Events – Race Connections
    #frm_buddypress-edit-activity textarea { width: 100%; }

    <link rel='dns-prefetch' href='//s0.wp.com ‘ />
    <link rel='dns-prefetch' href='//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com
    ‘ />
    <link rel='dns-prefetch' href='//fonts.googleapis.com
    ‘ />
    <link rel='dns-prefetch' href='//s.w.org ‘ />

    <link rel="alternate" type="text/calendar" title="Race Connections »
    iCal Feed" href="https://raceconnections.com?ical=1
    ” />

    window._wpemojiS

    April 6, 2017 at 3:28 am #1265746
    titusraj
    Participant

    Basically need the SEO to work on the Main Events Page which has been set as the Homepage

    April 6, 2017 at 9:44 am #1266039
    Trisha
    Member

    Hi Titus!

    I’m glad you’re happy with this 🙂 I think I can help clarify a few things.

    The meta tag should display on any calendar view; month, day, week, map, photo, upcoming events or past events.

    It’s also worth noting that the extension is generating a basic meta description tag rather than a meta property tag.

    <meta name="description" content="DESCRIPTION GOES HERE"/>

    I did this to make the extension flexible enough to work with other SEO Plugins that might have issues as well.

    I confirmed the usage of the meta description tag with SEO Moz (https://moz.com/learn/seo/meta-description) to be sure it would work for Google.

    The other noteworthy item is that this description tag is not in the same location as the other meta tags on the page. That confused me initially so I added a second meta tag to make the description hopefully a bit easier to locate:

    <meta name="generator" content="The Events Calendar v.XX" />

    I found the tag on your site and have included a screenshot:

    I also confirmed that google is picking the tag up for you site by using the Meta Tag Analyzer at https://www.seocentro.com/tools/search-engines/metatag-analyzer.html

    I did a quick search and google hasn’t indexed the new tag yet so it may be worth resubmitting. I’ll leave that to your discretion, it’s been a couple of years since I’ve actively been involved in SEO and I’m not sure what the current ‘rules’ are 🙂

    I hope this helps answer your questions, if you need any further clarification please don’t hesitate to reply back and let me know. I’m happy to help! ?

    Cheers,
    Trisha

    April 9, 2017 at 3:33 am #1267281
    titusraj
    Participant

    Hi Trisha,

    Thank you so much for taking the time to work this out and to show me. It is very much appreciated, I am glad the meta description is being picked up.

    Happy Weekend

    Titus

    April 10, 2017 at 4:34 pm #1267960
    Trisha
    Member

    Titus,

    I’m glad to hear this worked for you! Have a great week!

    Cheers,
    Trisha

    April 13, 2017 at 5:46 pm #1269750
    titusraj
    Participant

    Thank You

    April 19, 2017 at 9:50 pm #1271965
    Trisha
    Member

    Hi, Titus!

    I’m going to go ahead and close this thread out if you need anything else at all feel free to open a new thread. We’re happy to help 🙂

    Cheers,
    Trisha

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