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RE: Old Date Showing for One Blog Post in Google Search
7 replies · Started by Monkeys and Mountains on July 12, 2021
Hello, an old date is showing in Google Search for an important blog post, but only for one blog post, all others are fine but this is a very important post. The date "2017" is showing up and that wasn't even the original published date (it was earlier). I just republished it for June 2021 and noticed this. Under Customize>Blog, the date is turned off in GP and I haven't changed any other settings.
Please advise.Thank you for your help.
Hi there,
Any chance you can link us to the site in question?
You can use the private information field.
Let me know :)
Hi, yes, I included it below in the private message.
Thank you for your help.
Hi there,
what you're seeing there is the Uploaded date of the YouTube video in that post. Its not any meta present on your site thats generating it.
It seems the only way to remove that ( aside from removing the video ) is to add the data-nosnippet="true" attribute to the surrounding container your video sits in.
I see there is already this markup:
<div align="center"> // Youtube embed here </div>
If you can edit the HTML of the opening DIV and change it to:
<div align="center" data-nosnippet="true">
Hi David,
Thanks so much for this. That's so strange. The video has been there since 2017 and the date never appeared before. Will add the code as you said and hope the date disappears in Google search right away.
Thank you for your help. I really appreciate it.
Laurel
Not sure about 'right away' - google plays by its own rules :)
Glad to be of help.
Hi, I implemented this and it did make a change but now it says "3 days ago · Uploaded by Monkeys and Mountains Adventure Travel" in Google search results. See links below under Private Information.
Please advise. Thank you for your help with this.
Not much else i can offer unfortunately - the data-nosnippet was the only info i found on that matter in the google community:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/search?q=uploaded+by+snippet&from_promoted_search=true
Taken from second result in that search.
The fact the data details changed means the data-nosnippet did something - but why it continues to be displayed is up to Google. Theres nothing that can we can do to change that.
You may want to ask in the google support community but - my searches only found the info i already provided.
