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By: Internet Strategist @GrowMap

Internet Strategist @GrowMap — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:30:16 +0000

Hi Tina,

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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By: therapist

therapist — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:59:25 +0000

Every one is debating about removing the date option from the post, but i am just wondering that, from SEO point of view, is it going to make any sense?

By: Internet Strategist @GrowMap

Internet Strategist @GrowMap — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:42:26 +0000

Hello,

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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By: movers

movers — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:34:45 +0000

I have a similar situation as Tracy. One of my websites is an informative blog in which the information is not time-sensitive. Thinking that it would work to my advantage I took out the datestamps on my pages. Within days I noticed that my organic rankings had dropped significantly for my top keywords. I re-activated the datestamps and my rankings went back up to where they were before (6-16th positions, depending on keyword.)
Just an interesting tidbit I thought I would share from my experience. I think it goes to show that there is not always a right answer when it comes to driving traffic. In my case, my site shows up better in search engines when I have a datestamp, but since my readers might perceive the content to be outdated I have to keep coming up with more content so as to have a fresher datestamp.