[Support request] I have 'Last updated' shown in my posts but this isnt being shown in the SERPS

[Barry]

Hello, I have updated my CSS to show the last updated value for my posts which is great. The problem I am having is making Google respect this in the SERPS.

Is there an easy way to force google to crawl this value instead of the published value?

[David]

Hi there,

Try this tool and you will probably get a better result:

https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/u/0/

[Barry]

Hi, thanks but that doesn’t really solve the problem. That just shows me the markup that google sees. It shows:

<meta property=”article:published_time” content=”2018-03-27T21:05:08+00:00″ />
<meta property=”article:modified_time” content=”2018-06-21T22:55:48+00:00″ />

I want the serp to show the modified time, not the published time.

Is there an easy way to do this?

[Tom]

Unfortunately there’s not much else you can do but wait for Google to re-crawl and display the updated date instead of the published date.

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