| Why is a random date shown in my home page snippet? | Bill Slawski | 10/09/27 12:11 | I have read the FAQs and checked for similar issues: YES My site's URL (web address) is: http://www.seobythesea.com/ Description (including timeline of any changes made): I've had a few people suggest to me that I should post a question about t |
| Re: Why is a random date shown in my home page snippet? | 53north | 10/09/27 13:04 | I think they consider it. The date was important for Apple (?). Have you checked for referal terms used from search engine visitors, it may be a pretty popular search term amongst geeks.. Also are your dates in the header tags / <b> - maybe they're m |
| Re: Why is a random date shown in my home page snippet? | JohnMu | 10/09/27 13:46 | Hi Bill It's great to see you post here :-). I passed this issue on to the team when I initially read your blog post. I agree that it could be a bit misleading and I think it would be wrong to suggest that you change the content that you write about |
| Re: Why is a random date shown in my home page snippet? | Bill Slawski | 10/09/27 15:02 | Hi 53north, Thanks for your answer. I don't believe that the selection of that date was anything but random, or if so was possibly based upon something like it being the last date listed on the page - remember the days when people used to put a " |
| Re: Why is a random date shown in my home page snippet? | Bill Slawski | 10/09/27 15:14 | Hi John, Thank you. Hopefully the team will find a way to stop something like this from happening to the snippets for my homepage, and for other people's homepages as well. I'm not sure that I see much value in posting a date in the snippet fo |
| Re: Why is a random date shown in my home page snippet? | Ani Lopez | 10/09/29 10:58 | Bil, thanks for the article and posting here about. 53north, I tried all the ways I could imagine with different html tags and different order in html elements to get rid of dates in snippets with no success at all. JohnMu, I hope this can get some |
| Re: Why is a random date shown in my home page snippet? | 53north | 10/09/29 11:06 | Wonder if it recognises dates by format, and using a name for month would stop abberations in the serps. |
| Re: Why is a random date shown in my home page snippet? | Ani Lopez | 10/09/29 11:07 | An example http://www.google.ca/#hl=en&q=site:hotelpalacebarcelona.com it is not a blog, but dates are added to different home pages by language http://hotelpalacebarcelona.com/fr http://hotelpalacebarcelona.com/it http://hotelpalacebarcelona.com/de just because at the |
| Re: Why is a random date shown in my home page snippet? | 53north | 10/09/29 13:27 | Absolutely. But I wonder if the Gbot would be so quick to index them if it was in the form: 7th Septembre '09 etc.. |
| Re: Why is a random date shown in my home page snippet? | 53north | 10/09/29 13:35 | I mean, Bill's dates may have been fetched from within <h3> tags as the last date in the archive list, and yours are in <em>. Perhaps having them as ordinary text may dissaude gbot.. |
| Re: Why is a random date shown in my home page snippet? | 53north | 10/09/29 13:39 | + your meta description is more like a title; it could be expanded to a couple of sentences and gbot may choose it in preference to cobbling one together itself.. |
| Re: Why is a random date shown in my home page snippet? | Ani Lopez | 10/09/29 14:30 | 53north These are pretty obvious ways for search engines to guess they are dates <div class="date"><strong>18.12.2008</strong></div> <span class="date">24.11.2008</span> but in other example I can give to you, date is coded this way <div><span>Apr 10 |