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Why is date showing in page SERP

by dpuk44
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Hi,

This is my first post here so be gentle lol!

My website is showing the date in the SERP of Google for my Pages, which I don't really want. The date showing in the SERP for each page is the same date for each page in my sitemap under last mod.

Is there a way to remove this date from the SERP?

Many thanks
#date #page #serp #showing
  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Originally Posted by dpuk44 View Post

    Hi,

    This is my first post here so be gentle lol!

    My website is showing the date in the SERP of Google for my Pages, which I don't really want. The date showing in the SERP for each page is the same date for each page in my sitemap under last mod.

    Is there a way to remove this date from the SERP?

    Many thanks


    It's possible for Google to pull data from an xml sitemap but usually it's scraped from the live webpage.

    Look at the text version of your Google cache, that will make it easier to find a date on the webpage.

    If you remove or edit the date on the live webpage keep in mind Google has to reindex the URL/page, in that case use webmaster tools fetch as Google after making any edits to get Google to update the SERPs ASAP.
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    • Profile picture of the author dpuk44
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      It's possible for Google to pull data from an xml sitemap but usually it's scraped from the live webpage.

      Look at the text version of your Google cache, that will make it easier to find a date on the webpage.

      If you remove or edit the date on the live webpage keep in mind Google has to reindex the URL/page, in that case use webmaster tools fetch as Google after making any edits to get Google to update the SERPs ASAP.
      I did as you said and I found:

      Cleaning Services

      Home/Cleaning Services
      Cleaning ServicesPatrick2015-12-14T20:49:55+00:00

      I found this within Googles Inspect tool:

      HTML Code:
      <span class="updated" style="display:none;">2015-12-14T20:49:55+00:00</span>
      Could it be because of this within my theme?
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by dpuk44 View Post

        I did as you said and I found:

        Cleaning Services

        Home/Cleaning Services
        Cleaning ServicesPatrick2015-12-14T20:49:55+00:00

        I found this within Googles Inspect tool:

        HTML Code:
        <span class="updated" style="display:none;">2015-12-14T20:49:55+00:00</span>
        Could it be because of this within my theme?


        Yes, it's a plain text date.

        It doesn't matter how the date is being generated (code) it only matters that the date exist on the webpage as plain text. If that's the only plain text date on the page then compare the date to what you see on the Google SERP description, If it's the same date odds are that's the date source Google is scraping.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jonny2spoons
    Sounds like structured data. Check it here - https://developers.google.com/struct.../testing-tool/
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  • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
    You didn't specify the CMS, but WordPress at least tends to do this. It's a blog system by design so it's reasonable to have the publish date in the source. If I remember correctly Yoast SEO allows you to remove the date.
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    • Profile picture of the author dpuk44
      Originally Posted by nettiapina View Post

      You didn't specify the CMS, but WordPress at least tends to do this. It's a blog system by design so it's reasonable to have the publish date in the source. If I remember correctly Yoast SEO allows you to remove the date.
      Not for the Pages though. Post's...yes, but pages, hmmmm not so sure
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