How would removing date and time from blog affect its SEO ?

Johan Botha: How would removing date and time from blog affect its SEO ?
Has anyone experimented on this ? If we remove the date and time from a blog, how would it affect its SEO ?

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Answer by Jake B
It will depend on where you are removing date and time from, the content or the url.

If it is the URL, you will have to make sure that the redirects are set correctly from the old date including urls to the new ones.

In content, not much but it might not convey to your users how old the post is when the come to the post permalink directly.

Answer by Nick Stamoulis
Removing the time stamp from a blog post mostly affects the user-experience. Knowing when a post was published helps the reader determine if the information is still relevant and useful. Ever had a teacher tell you not to site a source if it was more than X years old? It helps instill confidence in the reader that the post is accurate and useful for their present situation.

Answer by Maneesh
yeah date and time may not be required in a blog and actually not required to show up in google search results strings, removing it should not be a problem, however find out what other similar blogs are doing to get a better idea.

Answer by dipen
See if you remove date and time from the blog settings where it displays that when the blog started and which day is the first day of the week and all etc., then it’s not an issue at all, you can remove it. But, from the SEO point of view if you remove the date & time from the post then it could effect your visits, why so, because it has been noticed that 95% of the times in commercial internet marketing end user is in the search of latest thing and if he/she see the date then they will calculate it how much old is and how much good it will be to refer this post/article so it will be a good practice to keep the date & time for the posts at least.

However, today’s new going to be old tomorrow so you shouldn’t worry about what if my post gets older tomorrow and there will be no visits. In this case you’ve to take care of quality of writing, make sure your content written is unique, not copied and providing valuable or up to the mark information to the end user for the subject he/she is looking for.

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