inactive events and participants appearing in Google search results

Brad Abernathy

Here's a vague SEO question, but has anyone noticed this before where Teamraiser events that are closed and participant's personal pages from the closed events appear in search results?


The only thing I can think of to correct this on the admin side would be to archive old teamraiser events but doing so removes the ability to report on it to compare to current events.


 

Sarah Kershaw

Hi Brad,


If you can, add a noindex tag in the html-editable section of the page. I think this will work..

 

<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />

It might be tricky to do at a page wrapper level but try it at the page-level and see if it works. 


SK


Brad Abernathy:

Here's a vague SEO question, but has anyone noticed this before where Teamraiser events that are closed and participant's personal pages from the closed events appear in search results?


The only thing I can think of to correct this on the admin side would be to archive old teamraiser events but doing so removes the ability to report on it to compare to current events.

 

 

Brian Mucha

I'd also then try to ask Google to reindex your site.


https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6065812?hl=en


Or you might try the Google removal docs.


https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6332384?visit_id=0-636262387942169570-537991026&rd=2

 

Jeremy Reynolds

Sarah Kershaw:

Hi Brad,


If you can, add a noindex tag in the html-editable section of the page. I think this will work..

 

<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />

It might be tricky to do at a page wrapper level but try it at the page-level and see if it works. 

 

FWIW, I'd think the pagewrapper level would be something like...

[[?x1x2x::x[[S42:0:status]]x::::<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />]]

...put into your additional meta tags section.


Like Brian said, you should also get into Google Webmaster Tools and have it fetch as google to ensure it'll block.

Brad Abernathy

Jeremy Reynolds:

Sarah Kershaw:

Hi Brad,


If you can, add a noindex tag in the html-editable section of the page. I think this will work..

 

<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />

It might be tricky to do at a page wrapper level but try it at the page-level and see if it works. 

 

FWIW, I'd think the pagewrapper level would be something like...

[[?x1x2x::x[[S42:0:status]]x::::<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />]]

...put into your additional meta tags section.


Like Brian said, you should also get into Google Webmaster Tools and have it fetch as google to ensure it'll block.

 

Thanks. I think the wrapper level is best since it'll cover all pages inside the closed, archived, deleted event. Thanks to all for the responses! Here's what I have in the pagewrapper to accomplish what I hope to and keep pagebuilder pages as-is:

<br/>[[?x1x2x3x::x[[S42:0:status]]x::::[[?[[S8]]::pagename::::<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW" />]]]]<br/>