Does removing the date affect SEO??

by hobokook Posted: 14 years ago 8 replies

If you remove the date off your posts and pages (I'm using Wordpress), will that affect my rankings in any way?

Thanks

Theeban 14 years ago

So far I never experienced this and never heard anyone complaining this about this. As far as it is not going to do nothing with your content/title/keywords/meta description - It may not (most probably)
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- jasminewheeler 14 years ago
  
  If you remove post or content from your site, Google will consider it as 404 page. So ratio of your 404 page is increased and it will give not only negative impression in Google but also decrease crawled frequency. So if you want to remove content or post, you have to redirect that particular page to relative category by using 301 redirection code.
  
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addlinkweb 14 years ago

No, removing date from blog posts cannot hurt ranking of a website.
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- Bokva 14 years ago
  
  It doesn't have any effect. Also, it would be silly for them to track date and time on page as it can be written in many ways, even with images.
  
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MatthewWoodward 14 years ago

I have actually done this before and it didn't cause any problems. The only time I can see it causing problems is if your listed in Google News etc

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