Hi guys,
I checked other webs show their “Last Modified” Date on Google Results. With Newspapers always shows “Date Creation” even when you update the content.
This is bad for CTR and I would like to know how can I change it to show the Last Modified Date instead of Date Creation on Google Results and for all my articles inside the web.
Could you please tell me how can I do this? (maybe a plugin or changing the code of the theme)
Thanks in advance
Hi,
The theme now has a last modified date for posts, if you use cloud post templates
– http://prntscr.com/nqygjo
The default publish date element should be removed, and the modified date entered in the post template. Google should pick this up eventually.
Thanks
Hi Simion,
I don’t know what is the cloud post templates. But anyway I found a plugin to do what I want (remove datePublished from google resultsand show only the dateModified).
But to do it, I need to delete the datePublished from the schema markup.
How can I do this?
Thanks
Cloud post templates are templates that can be created with the tagDiv composer, here are some templates designed by us – https://cloud.tagdiv.com/#/load/Single
You can also design your own. These will be available when the cloud library plugin is installed and active
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/tagdiv-cloud-library-plugin/
If you however want to remove the datepublished meta from the theme, this can only be done if you remove it from the code – http://prntscr.com/nrcl7i
Really interesting cloud post!! All my post are simples. Is it possible to create a Cloud post and apply to my posted articles? could negatively affect SEO?
In case that I prefer delete the datepublished meta, It would be work fine only deleting the lines that you told me?
Thanks ins advance
I did some testing and it seems it doesn’t work that way currently, I was wrong. Even if a cloud template and the modified date elements is used, the theme will still output both the datepublished and the datemodified metas. Google will pick either one in most cases, from what I can find online it is random. I believe this is supposed to happen, because it is better to have them both
– https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9253249?hl=en
Even Yoast loads both metas by default, and they could only be removed with code and not by a setting in the plugin
– https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/12707
If you want to remove the datepublished and see what happens, the only option is to remove it from the theme code, for default templates in the location mentioned in the screenshot (still possible through a child theme at the moment, might change in future updates). If you also use Yoast, try the code from the topic provided above.
However note that this might result is errors with the structured data
– https://support.google.com/webmasters/forum/AAAA2Jdx3sUYLyTQhbwrSo/
– https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31549422/getting-headline-and-datepublished-required-and-missing-errror-in-blogger
– https://www.bloggerspice.com/2015/12/how-to-fix-post-update-error-from-your-Blogger-template.html
Hi,
Before after every update i must make change for have last modified date in post, after i change with Publisher template who do that in setting, it’s more easy !
But now i re-use tagdiv newspaper for news website, then again same problem, and i don’t understand cloud librairie, i can see template who are similar to those i use already but don’t find way to add it to my website.
I think it’s very important option for SEO, hope your team will do like other do already, add this option in setting.
Actually i use plugin for do that but it’s not very beautiful, it add modified date under picture.
Hope you’ll do it a day, it’s useful option!
