# Gainesville Florida

> Every event in Gainesville this weekend. Checked nightly.

## Scope

Alachua County, Florida only: Gainesville, Alachua, High Springs, Newberry, Archer, Micanopy, Hawthorne, Waldo, and La Crosse. Every event and attraction traces to a fetched
source URL; a source that cannot be polled politely is documented as blocked, never spoofed or
routed around.

## Verticals

- Events: the weekend calendar at https://gainesvilleflorida.com/ and https://gainesvilleflorida.com/weekend/<date> for any upcoming
  Friday. Categories: Live Music, Food & Drink, Arts & Theatre, Family, Sports & Outdoors, Community, Football, Comedy, plus a virtual Free filter driven by each event's price.
  A category ships density-gated (noindexed, out of navigation) until it holds at least
  8 upcoming events; today that applies to: campus.
- Things to do: https://gainesvilleflorida.com/things-to-do, an Alachua County attractions directory grouped as
  Springs & Nature, Museums & Art, Science & Family, History, Parks & Gardens, plus curated collections (free, springs, indoor).
- The Friday email: https://gainesvilleflorida.com/the-friday-email, one weekly digest of the coming weekend. Free,
  double opt-in, unsubscribe anytime.

## Freshness contract

Events and attractions are re-ingested nightly; every page states its real last-refresh time, not
a synthetic always-fresh claim. A page with too few confirmed items stays out of the search index
(noindex, follow) rather than pad its count. The Friday email sends once a week, Friday morning.

## Canonical URL shapes

- Event: /event/<date>/<slug>. The date is the event's own local calendar date in
  America/New_York; the slug is derived from its title. Every earlier form (a bare or slugged
  evt_ id, a stale slug) redirects permanently (308) to this one.
- Weekend: /weekend/<YYYY-MM-DD>, where the date is a Friday.
- Category: /category/<slug>
- Venue: /venue/<slug>
- Recurring program: /series/<slug>, one page per curated recurring program (a weekly market, a
  library story time, a concert series) carrying what it is, where it runs and every upcoming
  date. Each of those dates keeps its own /event/ page; the program page is additional, never a
  replacement. A program with fewer than 3 upcoming dates is
  noindexed and absent from the sitemap.
- Attraction: /things-to-do/<slug>
- Attraction collection: /things-to-do/c/<slug>

## Not covered

Anything outside Alachua County, Florida; government listings; ticket resale. See
https://gainesvilleflorida.com/non-affiliation for what this publication is not.