Should You Remove Post Dates from Your WordPress Blog?

Posted by admin in HOW-TO, WordPress Ha... | 08.28.2010 - 7:24 am

You may be wondering why anyone would want to do this. Think about it, you probably have hundreds of articles that you wrote years ago and when those same articles appear on Google search engine results, the dates appear next to the description.  You might think that this is great, users searching the web should be able to see when an article originally published, but research shows that users discriminate against older content just because it is old. An article that may be valuable despite its age would be subject to a user completely ignoring it and would click on the newer article, just because it was newer.

As you can see in the image above, the search results page lists the post date for the article followed by the description.
Do not confuse the intent here, if you are running a news site or writing about topics whose value is short […]

Original post by gperera

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