Do Older Post Dates Affect Click Throughs From Google ?
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My Blog Entries appear in Google with a date, do those dates matter ?
Will people stay away from an older date, say 2009 ? Is it worth removing the dates ? Or should I update the entry and change published date ?
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Good Idea re the follow up post, I did read somewhere that you shouldn't target the same keywords from two different pages, I wonder if this is true ? If it is then I still have the original issue of missing traffic on a good post because of the date.
Maybe I update the original and change the published date.
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I'd probably keep the one's you've got and do a follow up post. Maybe cover anything that's changed in recent years etc and refer back to the older post whenever necessary.
DD
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The topic is finance and I feel that the dates might impact. So I either need to remove the dates or amend to keep fresh where applicable.
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Also agree that generally someone might click on newer content if there are articles ranging from 2011 to say 2007.
The way I think the date would impact your article's visibility / clickthrough the most is if people use the tools on the left side of Google and search by date. I find myself using the search by date tool frequently generally selecting the past year or 2-3 months when I know an article was recently published.
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I think it totally depends on the topic. For example, if I see a blog about SEO from 2008 I'll tend to stay away from it as the information may not be entirely accurate anymore. I'll usually sort my results from most recent posts or posts from the past year.
Would this affect your area?
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