Harvesting events

  • Resolved babiesandchildren

    (@babiesandchildren)


    6 years, 3 months ago

    Hi, I have a new website I’ve just built and I’m currently manually searching for events, visiting the event website or fb page and then adding them to events manager.

    Is there a way to ‘harvest’ an event and add it to my events page?

    I was thinking as a CSV?
    If not is there a way to make it easier at least until my website becomes known and organisers add their own events, as it’s rather time-consuming.

    Regards
    Paul

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  • Hello,

    Sorry but there is currently no Option for Events Manager to automatically get the Events from FB or other sources. You would need to manually Add them.

    As for making them know for organizers, I think this part is purely based on the Site Owner. It depends on how the Owner advertises his Website. There is an option on EM where you could enable the Form on front-end so anyone could submit and Event. (Events > Settings > Event Submission Forms)

    Sorry Paul,
    But I would block your bot immediately if you scraped my content without my consent. You will be replicating content, causing Google to punish me.

    I understand why you would want to do that, but it is not best practice.

    Also, why would I start to add content to your site myself, if you have already done that yourself previously? ??

    Thread Starter babiesandchildren

    (@babiesandchildren)

    Hi Timrv,
    Thanks, I knew there’s no option in EM for that, just wondered if there were a way to do it.

    Hi Patrick,
    Unfortunately, you are wrong about Google penalising duplicate content, you may want to read the Google duplicate content policy: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66359?hl=en
    and specifically from that policy:

    ‘Duplicate content on a site is not grounds for action on that site unless it appears that the intent of the duplicate content is to be deceptive and manipulate search engine results’

    If it did most news sites would get penalised massively as they post duplicate content from press agencies and press releases.

    Furthermore, Google ‘Scapes’content all day long, think Google Maps and GMB (was Places).

    Having run an event business, it would not bother me in the slightest if a website copied details of my event and posted it, If it gets one more person through the door at my event! I’m hardly copying tons of content and plagiarising it! I’m just posting event titles, dates, location and a short description, plus most of the time I add to that description to bulk it out and improve it!

    Plus calling multiple organisers to ask if they’d like to post their event is wholly impractical, I’m talking about listing about 50 events a month, more coming into Christmas!

    Why I add events to my site is because my site is a revived one from a couple of years ago, I’ve rebuilt it’s about 3 weeks old, with currently little content (you’ve got to start somewhere), if an event organiser went on there they wouldn’t post their event because they would think it pointless, plus being so new I’m not overtly promoting my site until I have more content on it, but this is time-consuming as I’m sure you know, adding an event can take me 20 minutes +

    Once I’ve added more content and promoted it, I’m sure event organisers will add their events so this will become less time consuming and I won’t be doing that, they may also want to claim the listing and edit some details.

    Whatever! You are still stealing content and that is just plain WRONG!

    Plugin Support angelo_nwl

    (@angelo_nwl)

    at the moment EM does not have that feature; however, EM/wordpress supports rss feed but maybe you need to ask permission to other site owners first if you’ve wanted to use their contents.

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