Hi All,
During certain times of the year we rent our theater to other presenters who sell their own tickets to their events. Our General Director wants these events on the TNEW calendar even though we do not sell the tickets. I program the event in Tessitura and then provide the link to their website in 2 places: “Event Detail Link URL” and “Production Season Link URL Override”. Somehow if you Google the event it takes you to a Purchase page. For example, Sarasota Orchestra is performing and the event is called "London Calling." If anyone clicks on the TNEW calendar link it takes them right to Sarasota Orchestra's page. However, if they Google London Calling at Sarasota Opera it takes them to a purchase page in the Opera's TNEW. Is there any way to prevent this? Is there another override that I'm not aware of?
Thanks,
Susan Ashcraft
Sarasota Opera
I think it's not the answer you want, but we do the same thing for certain presenters, and the goal, like you, is to direct customers straight from the calendar/event listing to the presenter's site, but if people wind up on the production season/performance pages for the events we make sure that the tickets are not somehow for sale, that the "not on sale" standard messages are overridden for those performances (we have a specific Performance Product Type for them), and that the description text is minimal text focusing on another link to the present site.
I wonder if there isn't a way to configure some of the various meta fields for those performances to reduce the chances of search engines picking them up? Support might be able to help you with that.