Past events URLs

  • victoria
  • Topic Author
  • Offline
  • New Member
  • New Member
More
7 years 3 months ago #91014 by victoria
Past events URLs was created by victoria
Hello,
What would be the best way to handle the past events' URLs?
Thanks.

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

More
7 years 3 months ago #91018 by Tuan Pham Ngoc
Replied by Tuan Pham Ngoc on topic Past events URLs
I don't really understand your questions/problems. Exactly what problems you are having? What you are trying to do?

Tuan

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

  • victoria
  • Topic Author
  • Offline
  • New Member
  • New Member
More
7 years 3 months ago #91023 by victoria
Replied by victoria on topic Past events URLs
The past (old) event pages are alive and still searchable. If I delete them, they will be 404 errors, and not sure I should redirect them.
Any suggestions? Thanks.

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

More
7 years 3 months ago #91026 by Donal
Replied by Donal on topic Past events URLs
This is a bit of an issue for me too. My past events are still publisjed.

My past events are still very high on Google for certain searches. If I click on the link, I'm brought to a page which shows the Categories. This is not a normal way for navigating to my events, so things don't look great, and users end up on the wrong pages.

Is it possible to redirect a past event/category to a specified page?

Thanks,
Donal

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

More
7 years 3 months ago #91035 by Tuan Pham Ngoc
Replied by Tuan Pham Ngoc on topic Past events URLs
So you are having past events displayed on your site or not? Or people are accessing to it from the link they found on Google Search?

In that case, I am not sure what should be an expected behavior? Maybe 404 error is the best?

Tuan

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

More
7 years 1 month ago #93588 by Addlink
Replied by Addlink on topic Past events URLs
This is huge issue for me too. My past events are not longer reachable from their urls.

Before the lastest cmponent updates when someone found one of my past events on google clicking on it led to the event in question correctly. Now all of them lead to a page which shows just the Categories.

Is it possible to recover the previous behavior?

Thanks,

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

More
7 years 1 month ago #94625 by Addlink
Replied by Addlink on topic Past events URLs
Nothing on this? :(

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

More
7 years 1 month ago #94627 by Donal
Replied by Donal on topic Past events URLs

Tuan Pham Ngoc wrote: So you are having past events displayed on your site or not? Or people are accessing to it from the link they found on Google Search?

In that case, I am not sure what should be an expected behavior? Maybe 404 error is the best?

Tuan

People are accessing the event from a link found on a Google search.

404 would not be good for me. The events recur annually, so I might have an equivalent event each year.

Ideally, for me, I could put in a URL for each event. When that event has passed, anybody trying to access the event will be redirected to the URL I entered. The user might then be able to browse to the current event.

Regards,
Donal

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

More
7 years 1 month ago #94628 by Tuan Pham Ngoc
Replied by Tuan Pham Ngoc on topic Past events URLs
Could I ask what menu options you are using? Do you have many events in the system?

Tuan

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

More
7 years 1 month ago #94630 by Donal
Replied by Donal on topic Past events URLs
I have about 90 published, upcoming events.

I have 200-odd past events. These events all fall into 1 of 4 categories.

I don't use menus to navigate to the individual events.

I have a menu pointing to each category, which lists all of the events in that category. I have an events booking google map on most pages, which a user can use to select their event, and I also have created an RSJoomla form, which users can complete to navigate to the event they require.

SHould I be using menus?

Regards,
Donal

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

Moderators: Tuan Pham Ngoc