several pre-sale questions p8 – SEO

[george]

1)

i was reading forum and i have question
is there any moment that my posts with old events become non available ? Is there any mechanism that makes old event non accessible ?

in regards to this post https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/seo-audit-tool-finds-404-while-crawling-coming-events-pages/

2)

is it possible that my event contains the category name in the slug ?
event.com/events/category-name/eventname ?

3)

is it possible to add a fixed “keyword” into URL and “page name” ?
i imagine that is a custom request.

4)
if i decide to do it myself, is there a chance that something important will be broken ?
or the most important is not to touch unique id of event

5)
what shall i do to make SEO better if i use your plugin ? any steps to do in advance of import ?
do you have anything import to read in terms of SEO ?

[Jaime Marchwinski]

Hi George,

Thanks for reaching out again!

Depending on your settings, your events will be cleaned up after 24 months (by default).  You can choose to extend or shorten that time to any custom length.

In terms of viewing events, as long as you have a compatible view, you will still be able to see old events.  For example, if you have Month View enabled, you will still be able to view those events for the rest of the month.  And you can also go back to previous month and view the events.  They will remain visible until you remove them.

If you are using a category shortcode, or viewing a category page, the category name will be appended to the URL.

You can explore your permalink options to customize URLs by going to Settings < Permalinks and creating custom permalinks.

As far as SEO goes, I personally would suggest allowing your Venue and Organizer pages to be indexed and optimized. Those pages also display events and since all the content is relevant and properly linked, it can only do good for increasing the visibility of your events.

I’m not exactly an expert on using the Yoast SEO plugin, but I can say that, as you use the configuration wizard, you can allow Events, Venues, and Organizers to all be visible in that process.

 

Each one is a custom post type and making them Visible will instruct Yoast SEO to make those indexable by search crawlers.

In addition, the following links might help to display your events in a Google search:

• https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/display-events-in-google-search/
• https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/how-do-i-get-my-event-listing-data-to-show-up-on-google-search/

I hope this helps, please let me know if you need any further clarification!

 

Thanks,

Jaime

[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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