Today We have some new tutorial for all SEO and Blogger fellow. After Google Panda update, me and many SEO king believes and recommended to remove the date stamp from the Google search which displays along with your crawl page in Google cache. one of the reason to get low organic traffic from the Google and yahoo search engine.
Which date stamp?
Date stamp, which displays the date of publication of particular link/post/page in Google, with your site description. for example,
The above screen shot is of one of my crawl post, in Google search looks like this, with its published date.How come it is there?
This date stamp came from the functionality which shows the post date and time in your theme. it is not from the Google. like,
So the above red box is the reason it shows how it is jumped to your Google crawl page [if something is in your theme then defiantly the date stamp going visible in Google search too].
Why you should remove it?
The date stamp in Google search not effect the blogs who have some daily post [some no. of post daily basis] but if you give post in a week in one post in 2-3 days then defiantly this date stamp going to eat your Google juice. Google of course gives preference to the new and updated post instead of the late and a year old post in search engine rankings. Date stamp may harm your click-through rate from search engine. Also it eats the space in the site description at your SERP.
The bloggers who post daily will say why should we remove it? think practically, you posted on the topic, which is evergreen, after day or some month, there should be some update, and the new blogger who posted just a week ago will get better rankings and clicks from Google then your page, because it is only you, content owner says how much the content is older. so i recommended it to remove it from your blog asap.
How to Remove it?
Well its a simple trick, no rocket science their. There are three ways to remove it easily from your blog and from google search.
1. Use Image :- instead of using simple hypertext for date, use image based date which shows your post date and saves you form date stamp in google search. though setting date and changing in CSS not so easy, Next plan.
2. Using client side Script, we can easily control the date stamp to get posted on google. Ask your webmaster or find your index.php file find the the_time(‘F j, Y’) [mostly used name]. Replace it with javascript :-
<script language=”javascript”>document.writer(“<?php the_time(“F j,Y”) ?>;-)</script>
Replace the_time(‘F j, Y’) with the below code in the Single.php file for single post page.
<script language=”javascript” type=”text/javascipt”>
document.writer(“<?php the_time(“j,”) ?>;-)</script>
<?php the_time(‘M Y’) ?>
3. if your are WordPress user, then you can Use the “WP Date Remover” Plugin, with that you can easily remove the date stamp from home page, single post page and from the page section, with a single click. [its a free]!
The above plugin is worked mostly with all the themes as per my knowledge, still if it not work, then you can adopt the any of the above 2 methods.
I have done all the above method still date stamp is visible in Google, what to do?
The date stamp is visible through Google crawl, so wait for the Google bot to visit your page again, next time it will be without date stamp, hopefully! make sure it is not visible in your theme, if it is, try again to remove it form any of the above method.
And here is a solution for blogger blogspot
Solution 1 to Remove Date/TimeStamp and Author From Blogger :
1. Login to Your Blogger Account
2. On Your Dashboard, Click on Template (see below shown picture for further assistance)
3. Now Click on Edit HTML (see below shown picture for further assistance)
4. Now Check the box of Expand Widget Templates (see below shown picture for assistance)
5. Find this code and delete it to Remove the Post Date from blog.
<data:post.dateHeader/>
6. Find this code and delete it to Remove the Post Time from blog.
<span class=’post-timestamp’>
<b:if cond=’data:top.showTimestamp’>
<data:top.timestampLabel/>
<b:if cond=’data:post.url’>
<a class=’timestamp-link’ expr:href=’data:post.url’ rel=’bookmark’
title=’permanent link’><abbr class=’published’
expr:title=’data:post.timestampISO8601′><data:post.timestamp/></abbr></a>
</b:if>
</b:if>
</span>
<b:if cond=’data:top.showTimestamp’>
<data:top.timestampLabel/>
<b:if cond=’data:post.url’>
<a class=’timestamp-link’ expr:href=’data:post.url’ rel=’bookmark’
title=’permanent link’><abbr class=’published’
expr:title=’data:post.timestampISO8601′><data:post.timestamp/></abbr></a>
</b:if>
</b:if>
</span>
7. Find this code and delete it to Remove the Post Author from blog.
<span class=’post-author vcard’>
<b:if cond=’data:top.showAuthor’>
<data:top.authorLabel/>
<span class=’fn’><data:post.author/></span>
</b:if>
</span>
<b:if cond=’data:top.showAuthor’>
<data:top.authorLabel/>
<span class=’fn’><data:post.author/></span>
</b:if>
</span>
Now Solution 2 to Remove Date,Time and Author From Blogger :
Step 1. Login to you blogger account.
Step 2. Navigate to the Layout >Blog Posts.
Step 3 . Click on Edit Post (Refer below screen shot).
Step 2. Navigate to the Layout >Blog Posts.
Step 3 . Click on Edit Post (Refer below screen shot).
Step 4. Now Clear the Date, Time and Author Checkbox Buttons. See Below Screenshot for further details.
Step 5. Save and and Navigate to your blog home page. you will find no more date on your blog.
