Remove Date Stamps on SERP for Better SEO

4 min read SEOMediaWorld Staff

In recent years, Google has changed algorithm almost completely. It has implemented lots of new things and kicked out lots of past things. After panda update and penguin updates, lots of blog’s traffic was down and few of them has recovered it’s traffic back, while some of them have not. In 2013, Google has enrolled around 17 new algorithm changes and in 2014, after Page Layout update from Google, bloggers are waiting for new update to survive in the competition. Recently I found that there is date listed on search engine results page. Actually I have been seeing it since long but noticed it for the first time, while I think about SEO for my blog.

No Date Stamps on SERP

No Date Stamps on SERP

I have observed that few of blogs having date stamps while few of them have not. Well, that might because Google is fetching that details either from your blog’s sitemap, or from your blog post meta description or somewhere else. After panda update, most of the blog penalized for the reason is showing dates in SERP. The same thing happened to lots of old blogs. If you search for
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Mostly Search Engine Loves fresh content, so it would love to saw fresh content published or updated recently rather than showing old posts from 2008 or 2012 year. Updated posts would contains more and updated information and hence you should write evergreen content.

Another thing is from user side. If you are searching for something on search engine, you would probably choose the one with latest date. Not choose the post from previous year because you are looking for fresh details. That would decrease the incoming organic traffic to your old post. You can drive traffic to your old post using this SEO tips.

How to remove Date Stamps on SERP :

Method 1 : Using WordPress Plugin to Date Stamps on SERP

Date Exclusion SEO WordPress Plugin