: Older event, not new event, being shown in Google Search results I have an event directory that contains events with dates. These events can be annual. When a user recreates the same event

@BetL925

In your case, the best option is to keep the old page to speak about the recurrent event (in this case, don't put the date in URL; use an id instead). That way:


You keep keywords for this page
You keep backlinks for this page
You avoid having several pages in the SERPs


Otherwise, if you can't control this, you can 301 redirect all event pages to the new created by the user. Drawbacks of this is you need to keep an eye on pages creation by users and you lose some PageRank with the 301 redirects.

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@Margaret670

We all want to do that with Google, to show our last content, but it's not fully in our hand, it depends on the rate Google uses to visit you. However you can set your own rate for Google's crawler here: www.google.com/webmasters/tools/settings?hl=en&siteUrl=http://yoursite.com.
But be careful, if you set the rate to very high that can screw your server.

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