{"id":7166,"date":"2020-06-24T17:38:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T15:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.recolize.com\/?p=7166"},"modified":"2020-06-24T17:59:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T15:59:15","slug":"remove-date-google-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recolize.com\/en\/blog\/remove-date-google-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove Date from Google Search Results in WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"section  text-normal section-text-no-shadow section-inner-no-shadow section-normal section-opaque\"  >\n    \n    <div class=\"background-overlay grid-overlay-0 \" style=\"background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0);\"><\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"container container-vertical-default\">\n        <div class=\"row vertical-default\">\n            <div class=\"col-md-12     text-default small-screen-default\"  ><div class=\"col-text-1 text-normal  element-top-20 element-bottom-20\" data-os-animation=\"none\" data-os-animation-delay=\"0s\">\n    <p class=\"p1\">We faced the problem that Google displayed the initial publish date of all our pages and blog posts for our website in front of the Google search results:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7168\" src=\"https:\/\/www.recolize.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-search-result-with-date.png\" alt=\"Google Search Result with Date\" width=\"632\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.recolize.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-search-result-with-date.png 632w, https:\/\/www.recolize.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-search-result-with-date-300x53.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><!--more-->As we didn\u2019t want these dates to appear in the Google search results, especially for normal website pages, we\u2019ve searched for a possibility to remove them. After some research we found out, that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3schools.com\/tags\/tag_time.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HTML time tag<\/a> was responsible for these dates:<\/p>\n<pre>&lt;time datetime=\"2019-09-24T05:43:08+00:00\"&gt;09.24.2019&lt;\/time&gt;<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When this tag is contained in the source code of the page, then the Google bot parses it and adds it to the search results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7173\" src=\"https:\/\/www.recolize.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/html-time-tag-source-code.png\" alt=\"HTML time tage source code\" width=\"839\" height=\"77\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.recolize.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/html-time-tag-source-code.png 839w, https:\/\/www.recolize.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/html-time-tag-source-code-300x28.png 300w, https:\/\/www.recolize.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/html-time-tag-source-code-768x70.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 839px) 100vw, 839px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">To remove the <code>&lt;time&gt;<\/code> tag you can e.g. try the following WordPress plugins:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-meta-and-date-remover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WP Meta and Date Remover<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-date-remover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WP Date Remover<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\">In our case our theme offered a configuration option to disable the <code>&lt;time&gt;<\/code> tag globally for all post types.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">If you have existing pages where you want the date to disappear in Google search results, then tell Google in the <a href=\"https:\/\/search.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Search Console<\/a> to reindex the affected page. If you want all your pages to be reindexed by Google because you\u2018ve removed the <code>&lt;time&gt;<\/code> HTML tag globally for all pages of your website (that\u2018s what we did), then resubmit your page sitemap in the Google Search Console. This will tell Google to reindex all your pages and the dates will disappear eventually.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We faced the problem that Google displayed the initial publish date of all our pages and blog posts for our website in front of the Google search results:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[164,40,2879,3586],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recolize.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recolize.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recolize.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recolize.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recolize.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7166"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.recolize.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7192,"href":"https:\/\/www.recolize.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7166\/revisions\/7192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recolize.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recolize.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recolize.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recolize.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}