{"id":1064193,"date":"2016-01-29T01:23:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T09:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/url-for-ical-event-entry-causing-seo-issue\/"},"modified":"2016-02-12T14:04:04","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T22:04:04","slug":"url-for-ical-event-entry-causing-seo-issue","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/url-for-ical-event-entry-causing-seo-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"url for ical event entry causing SEO issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re seeing the urls for events showing up twice, one being the \/?ical=1 version for each &amp; every event. Without having rel=canonical, on the ical version, we&#8217;re concerned about presenting google with 2 identical base urls giving different content depending on query string parameters.<\/p>\n<p>There also seems to be no option to have noindex &amp; nofollow applied to the ical url version which might be slightly helpful in this situation to lower SEO risk.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, we&#8217;re concerned about the volume of urls getting created as number of events increases, given that each event brings two urls. The concern is that over time, our crawl budget will be stressed more than it needs to be,  as events are added.<\/p>\n<p>Our most desired solution for this is to be able to deactivate ical functionality. 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