[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #62554: Front/Home page showing Date and URL on Search Engines now? This is a no-no for SEO

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Sat Nov 23 17:12:41 UTC 2024


#62554: Front/Home page showing Date and URL on Search Engines now? This is a no-no
for SEO
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 Reporter:  digitalkingdom  |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)    |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General         |    Version:  6.7.1
 Severity:  normal          |   Keywords:
  Focuses:                  |
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 When building new wordpress websites, (realized this started happening on
 WordPress 6.6) your home page is now showing on SERP's with a date and the
 full URL is now listed instead of no date and Site Name (without the .com
 or dashes etc). However, when adding new pages that's not the home page,
 the date won't show on SERP. So it seems to be directly focused on the
 homepage once you've set it in Settings.

 So far I have not had any issues ranking but the look and feel on SERP's
 doesn't strike "official" like the other older websites and given you need
 to change the date manually and republish to change it on SERP's. It's
 either suspicious looking and further on (years) if you don't republish it
 will surely affect your SERP rankings.

 Was this recently changed? and can it be reverted?

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/62554>
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