We are getting crawl errors from empty dates, some 404 but thousands of \u201cduplicate content\u201d errors. Investigating whether the <meta name=\u201drobots\u201d content=\u201dnoindex,follow\u201d \/> tag was in the header, I found that, if I get to a page with no events by
\n1. searching for a word in the tribe bar in week or month view, or
\n2. using the previous \/ next day links in day view
\nthe meta robots tag is in the header.<\/p>\n
However, if I get to a day with no events by selecting a date from the datepicker in the tribe bar, the meta robots tag is not in the page header, and the URL does not change to the chosen date. <\/p>\n
Checking further, selecting a day from the datepicker does not update the URL whether or not there is an event for that day. Selecting a week or month from the datepicker does change the URL.<\/p>\n
When I went back and looked at the flagged event urls in both the duplicated content and 4XX error reports, they all end in a date \u2013 most are \/events\/date or events\/category\/name-of-category\/date.<\/p>\n
Examples:
\nsearch in week: http:\/\/www.sierranevada.edu\/events\/week\/2015-05-31\/?tribe-bar-date=2015-05-31&tribe-bar-search=commencement
\nsearch in month: http:\/\/www.sierranevada.edu\/events\/2015-06\/?tribe-bar-date=2015-06&tribe-bar-search=commencement
\nnext day link: http:\/\/www.sierranevada.edu\/events\/2015-06-08\/
\nnext week link: http:\/\/www.sierranevada.edu\/events\/week\/2015-06-07
\ndatepicker: cannot post URL because it hasn’t updated<\/p>\n
Thanks, Susan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-965178","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n