Should We Remove Dates from Our WordPress Blog Posts, Or Not?
Published on February 22, 2014
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Let me tell you that when I first started Wealthy Associate and several other websites I own, I decided not to include the dates on my posts. However, now I'm second guessing this decision.
My fear is that I don't want to have a visitor on my site look at the "published date" and think the content is outdated.
However, the strategy I have in place is to always go back on any "old" post and update the content on a case by case basis.
I'm also not sure what are the SEO impacts of having dates on your blog post vs. not having them there.
Where I'm struggling is that I find that even though I go back and update my posts, the date remains as the "publish date" and there's really no "updated date" reflected.
I'm also thinking on my readers, my bottom line is that I truly value them, and I want to make sure I don't disservice them by not having dates on my site.
I would like to hear your thoughts on this subject.
Do you have a solution you can share so that posts can reflect the "updated date" instead of just the "publish date"?
Or does it really matter to you to have dates or no dates on your posts?
I know that depending on what websites you have, then dates are important, for example:
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