Wrong Date in SERPS

by ashishthakkar Posted: 13 years ago 4 replies

Google showing wrong date in the serps.

They are showing April 1 2004 for a domain created in 2006.

Is this known?
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yukon Banned 13 years ago

The SERP date can be made to display any date you want, it has nothing to do with the age of the domain.

The SERP date is page level & doesn't necessarily mean the date the page was first posted.
ashishthakkar 13 years ago

Because that page does not mention any date on it so i wonder how and why google chose that date.

Certainly Google did not crawl that page in 2004.

Regards,
THAKKAR
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- yukon Banned 13 years ago
  
  Actually the page does mention the date that's displayed in Google SERPs.
  
  [source]
  site:adwordsadsensetools.com/Ranking-Booster-Pro-Impressions.html
  
  They could have also submitted an xml sitemap to GWT that included the date, though I don't see any xml sitemap indexed (filetype:xml site:domain.com).
ashishthakkar 13 years ago

What is the purpose of the date they show in the serps?

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Wrong Date in SERPS

ashishthakkar • 13 years ago • 4 replies

Google showing wrong date in the serps. They are showing April 1 2004 for a domain created in 2006.