{"id":1312054,"date":"2017-06-29T09:04:56","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T16:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/expired-events-causing-a-lot-of-404s\/"},"modified":"2017-06-29T09:04:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T16:04:56","slug":"expired-events-causing-a-lot-of-404s","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/expired-events-causing-a-lot-of-404s\/","title":{"rendered":"Expired events  causing a lot of 404s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are heavily using the events calendar plugin. Now events have lifetime, activate and expiration date. The problem is we are getting a lot of crawl soft 404 \/ hard 404 errors from google crawl as some of the events have already expired. Is there a better way to handle this? I know that these 404s will hurt our SEO. A technical representative of one of our partners mentioned:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Expired events should tag as Expired rather than moving them into an unavailable state. Please ask the plugin&#8217;s developer about this, maybe they can provide a solution for you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1312054","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Expired events causing a lot of 404s -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/expired-events-causing-a-lot-of-404s\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Expired events causing a lot of 404s -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We are heavily using the events calendar plugin. 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