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General osclass questions => General discussion => Topic started by: Macreus on July 28, 2021, 03:18:33 PM

Title: How to hide date meta on homepage?
Post by: Macreus on July 28, 2021, 03:18:33 PM

Hey, I've noticed that my home page is dated on google searches.

(https://i.ibb.co/nBd5dF5/image.png)

This is fine for individual listing pages but is bad for the homepage as the date affects the search rank, how can I prevent google from picking up a date in the homepage?

Title: Re: How to hide date meta on homepage?
Post by: MB Themes on July 29, 2021, 02:06:29 PM

@Macreus
You probably cannot ask google to not tell when your site was crawled.

Title: Re: How to hide date meta on homepage?
Post by: Macreus on July 29, 2021, 02:09:22 PM

That's not what the date means, if google finds a date in the meta then it uses that to influence it's results. It's good for news websites because latest articles are crawled with a more recent date and appear first, but when it's a static homepage it badly affects ranking.

There are wordpress plugins that achieve this, is it not possible for something similar?

https://www.bloggingtriggers.com/hide-remove-date-google-search-results/

To put it into simpler terms - Google thinks my homepage is a blog post and found a date somewhere in the meta snippets and now it will fall down search rankings as it's forever thought to be an old blog/news post. It's a common issue with Wordpress websites and of course, solutions like OSClass that are built on the framework of wordpress and solutions are available for Wordpress sites but it doesn't seem like anything has been done for OSClass in that regard.