Thursday, 16 March 2017

Are Google Search Snippets Showing False Dates?

The other day, Bill Hartzer posted that he saw Google showing inaccurate and false dates on his articles within the Google search results. Now I see a WebmasterWorld thread started by the administrator there, with a similar complaint.

In short, some are saying their new articles are showing up with inaccurate dates in the Google snippets. I tested this on a few stories on this site and I was unable to replicate it but Bill documented it on his site.

Engine, the administrator at WebmasterWorld wrote:

Looking closely at the Google SERPs I noticed the dates shown against some of the entries and most show just a date. However, when it’s a very recent listing in the SERPs the actual date shown by Google appears to be inaccurate. One example shows it as incorrect by seven hours. “7 hours ago”

Here is a screen shot from Bill showing that:

Do you also have this issue?

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

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Author: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

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