Duplicate content in event profile pages

Duplicate content in event profile pages - Google Search Console is a free application that allows you to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve any issues that Google may encounter as it crawls and attempts to index your website in search results. If you’re not the most technical person in the world, some of the errors you’re likely to encounter there may leave you scratching your head. We wanted to make it a bit easier, so we put together this handy set of tips about google-search, duplicate-content, , to guide you along the way. Read the discuss below, we share some tips to fix the issue about Duplicate content in event profile pages.Problem :

I have a website which has events. Events have description, dates and locations. Single event may be held in multiple locations on different dates, but the description is still the same.

How can I prevent "duplicate content" on such events or this case is OK for search engine optimization?

Solution :

According to your current setup:

1. You have dedicated page for every event with the details of that event.




2. Every event may have multiple locations / dates and for those locations / dates you have event listing pages.




3. The listing pages for locations / dates contain short description of the original events. Other than that they don't provide any additional unique information.

For this sort of structure, abide by the following two rules for better Search Engine Optimization (SEO):

1. Make sure each dedicated event page have rel="canonical" properly set to it's own URL. You'll find details on canonical here.




2. Since your event listing pages for locations & dates do not contain any additional unique information, there is no reason to index them for search engines. You may use noindex meta tag to prevent Search Engines from indexing them for search results. Search Engines will still find your events, but they'll simply show the dedicated event pages in the Search Result.

You'll find more information on noindex here and here.

This way Search Engines will index all your unique event information without any duplicates.

If the issue about google-search, duplicate-content, , is resolved, there’s a good chance that your content will get indexed and you’ll start to show up in Google search results. This means a greater chance to drive organic search traffic to your site.