Matan · GEO · Freshness

Publication date

datePublished in Schema.org is the cleanest recency signal we can parse.

Pass condition in our engine: datePublished is present in Schema.org.

1. Problem description

Visible dates in the byline help humans; schema dates help machines. A “2020” in a sentence is not enough for this check. Without datePublished, content age scoring has nothing reliable to use.

2. Most common causes

  • The theme shows a date but no JSON-LD.
  • datePublished is invalid (00-00-00).

3. How to fix it

  1. Add datePublished (ISO 8601) on Article/BlogPosting.
  2. Show the same date next to the byline.

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