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WP Events Calendar Creates URLs Too Long in Site Crawler
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My travel/tourism site is on WP and using an Events plugin that ads a calendar of events to many pages. The MOZ crawler is indexing almost 46K links with a URL too long, but the site only has about 3.8K pages indexed in Google. I can tell MOZ is indexing the same pages over and over again but just adding a random calendar month and year. Here are some examples.
- https://www.visitcurrituck.com/four-day-stay/?full=1&long_events=1&country[0]=US&ajaxCalendar=1&mo=10&yr=2003
- https://www.visitcurrituck.com/four-day-stay/?full=1&long_events=1&country%5B0%5D=US&ajaxCalendar=1&mo=10&yr=2034
- https://www.visitcurrituck.com/beach-houses-family-time/?full=1&long_events=1&country%5B0%5D=US&ajaxCalendar=1&mo=1&yr=1873
Any advice on how to prevent MOZ from indexing this way? I don't believe that Google is seeing this also, but maybe they are. I just know my site has over 63K issues and I'm sure at least 75% or more is because of the way they are picking up on the events calendar.
Thanks!
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Pretty sure it would be:
- User-agent: Rogerbot
- Disallow: /*?ajaxCalendar
- Disallow: /*&ajaxCalendar
That would pretty much handle OPs concern there
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Hi there!
Thanks so much for the great question! Sorry for the trouble here. If you're looking to keep rogerbot from crawling and reporting issues on those calendar pages all together, you could block us from those pages using a disallow directive in your robots.txt file. It may look something like this:
User-agent: Rogerbot
Disallow: /?fullor whatever tag you're wanting to block us from crawling. I have a guide here that talks more about rogerbot and this technique that may be helpful, as well. I would recommend also checking your robots file in a robots.txt checker after making changes just so that no surprises come up!
If you'd like us to look into where we're finding these links or if you have any other questions, please feel free to email us at [email protected] with the Campaign you're working.
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