Disable future links?

Hi @jondaley ,

Thank you for reaching out.

This looks like something related to SEO, as such, kindly have a look at our SEO and Performance Issues knowledgebase article for insights.

No. It is related to performance. My server is getting swamped due to having all of these dynamic links getting hit over and over again by various crawlers, legitimate and illegitimate. I think you should have a setting in the software that disables the “next month” (and any other links) for a user configurable amount.

As far as I can see, the link you gave doesn’t mention anything like that.

Having this same issue at https://kurnhattin.org/ very distressing. Please post a fix, let us know asap.

Until a fix/setting is added to the plugin, I just block all of the robots in my nginx config:

    location /calendar {
      if ($http_user_agent ~* (amazon|google|spider|bot) ) {
        return 403;
      }

Hi @jondaley

Thanks for your message.

You might also find this helpful. Check out the recommendations provided in this article for influencing crawlers and improving SEO:
Improving SEO with The Events Calendar

Let me know if you need further assistance.

i think that is saying you already put noindex/follow in all links anyway? I’ll have to see if that is actually working.

that seems unlikely since Google is still crawling. I do think Amazon’s crawler is broken, since it didn’t even ever look at robots.txt – I have complained to their abuse department about that.

Hi @jondaley

Thanks for your response.

Feel free to let me know if you have other questions or concerns.

Hi there,

It appears that we haven’t heard back from you in a while, so I’ll assume that the matter has been resolved. If you need any more help, feel free to start a new thread and we’ll be happy to assist you.

No, I just hadn’t gotten to check on whether your code actually does what your link says it does. I have a link “>” that points to the next month. There is no “noindex” or “nofollow” attributes included, as your linked article says there should be. Is there a setting to turn that on?

a href="https://intrepidfirearmsacademy.com/calendar/month/2024-12/"
class="tribe-common-c-btn-icon tribe-common-c-btn-icon--caret-right
tribe-events-c-top-bar__nav-link tribe-events-c-top-bar__nav-link--next"
aria-label="Next month" title="Next month"
data-js="tribe-events-view-link" rel="next"

Same for the calendar day links:

a href="https://intrepidfirearmsacademy.com/calendar/2024-10-30/" class="tribe-events-calendar-month__day-date-link" data-js="tribe-events-view-link"

No indexing the links does not solve the problem.