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The old pages give us very little traffic--as few as ONE page view over the past six month

Here's an example:

https://www.landmarkschool.org/calendar/day/2018-01-06  1 page view (obviously NOT a lot of traffic)

https://www.landmarkschool.org/calendar/day/2019-01-06

Another issue is that these events are generated from the calendar but don't have /calendar/ in the url, and I'm getting penalized for duplicate content.

https://www.landmarkschool.org/blue-day-47

https://www.landmarkschool.org/blue-day-48

https://www.landmarkschool.org/performing-arts-tech-weekend

https://www.landmarkschool.org/performing-arts-tech-weekend-0

https://www.landmarkschool.org/performing-arts-tech-weekend-1

https://www.landmarkschool.org/performing-arts-tech-weekend-2

Any advice is appreciated!

hi there. my website is for a school. We have several calendars for athletic events, school events, etc. there are thousands of events each year that link to pages for each event. the URLs/pages are generated dynamically, and the urls and pages are very similar from year to year, so we're being penalized for duplicate content. I can delete past years events in bulk, but there's no way to redirect them in bulk. am i taking a big chance by deleting events that occurred prior to 1/1/2019?

Hopefully this string is still active. We have hundreds of events on our calendars that open to very thin pages: date and time of event with little other content. https://www.landmarkschool.org/family-bbq  https://www.landmarkschool.org/landmark-school-bkb-b-v-practice-16 Does it make sense to add no follow and no index tags to these events and no follow tags to the calendars?

We migrated to a new CMS in Feb (put in redirects as needed). Since the migration, organic traffic is down 11% YOY, but direct is up 22%,  FB referrals up 1,000% and PPC up 500%. Page views are up 35%. Should I be worried about the decline in organic traffic?

Hi Roman: Thanks so much for your prompt reply. I agree that using robots.txt is the way to go. I do not want to disable the google calendar sync (we're a school and need our events to feed from several google calendars). I want to confirm that the robots.txt option will still work if the calendars are still syncing with the site.

One more question--do you think that all these errors are causing the dip in organic traffic?

Hi there: I'm seeing a steady decline in organic traffic, but at the same time and increase in pageviews and direct traffic. My site has about 3,000 crawl errors!! Errors are duplicate content, missing description tags, and description too long. Most of these issues are related to events that are being imported from Google calendars via ical and the pages created from these events. Should we block calendar events from being crawled by using the disallow directive in the robots.txt file? Here's the site: https://www.landmarkschool.org/