Unless someone is searching by date or using a blog search that considers recency I don’t know why it affects SEO; however, movers saw that it had a negative effect so it may not be the best advice to remove it.

I can tell you that many people discriminate against older posts even when the topic is not really time-sensitive and that is probably even more true on Social Networking and voting sites.

Personally I prefer to be able to find out how dated a post is quickly and easily so I wish all posts were dated. Often the only way to tell is by checking the date stamps on comments if there are any.
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Removing dates and times on posts is a very common tip for blogs (one which I normally dislike because I want to know when something was written without searching all over for it). I only recommended it this time because her last post was written in 2007.

Many people would be highly interested to know about what you experienced. I’ll look into it further and I hope Tracy sees your reply. As you note, a better solution is to add newer content.

While it is known that search engines favor longevity and hence older content I am surprised that they would use the dates and times in the posts as a determining factor.
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Many visitors to blogs discriminate against any that don’t have recent posts so you may want to remove the dates from your blog posts. Since they aren’t really date sensitive doing that won’t make visitors think the site is inactive.

If you have a physical address you can use, listing your blog as a business in Local Search sites can bring you valuable incoming links that will move your site up in the search engines.

Check out our post about Selecting Keywords because understanding how that works makes a huge difference in getting organic traffic.

Then look in the right column (also called the right sidebar in a blog) under Online Growing Strategies and you’ll see posts on other Free Ways to Get Traffic. We do regular post other tips including ideas on how to use Social Networking to increase visitors to your site.

One more thing. Check out Commenting Strategy Increased Our Traffic 54.87% and consider using the DoFollow Tools and Lists to locate blogs visited by Moms and Dads. Their readers would be interested in your blog.

I happen to know of two brand new blogs you may want to frequent: Screaming Moms and Atypical Dad. Both will be launching soon and I’ll be doing my part to send them traffic from Social Networking sites.

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I encourage businesses to take advantage of all the high quality incoming traffic they can locate. I know Yelp is working really well for you and still recommend making sure you are listed in all the other free Local Search Directories too.
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