End of Time

Adding events for the following month adds the link, but I don’t remember this happening before. Maybe this is to combat the Google Analytics 404 ‘bug’ ?

You nailed it anole. This is more or less to combat Google sometimes linking to empty archive (calendar) pages. And it is a feature. Basically you can not only paginate in the direction of events. If there are no events in the future, why provide a link to move forward and see nothing? Make sense?

– Brook

I guess it’s logical, but I’m not sure if it will completely solve the GA problem. Hypothetically, what if you schedule an event for two months from now, with nothing in between? Wouldn’t GA give errors for the blank dates in between? Just a thought.

BTW, it was a client that was freaked out by this ‘feature’. I didn’t see how it could ‘hurt’ their site… ??

Google might still index those pages, you are correct. They should not because we add a robots meta noindex to all of those pages. However some other plugins like to add a an index meta tag. With two conflicting ones on a page, Google might get confused. And since it can take them a long while to reindex contentless pages with conflicting meta tags, the problem may persist for a long while even after you have disabled or fixed the other plugin that is causing difficulties. So this solution is basically just to mitigate the effects of another plugin that decides to add erroneous meta tags. It can only do so much damage now.

Cheers!

– Brook