i want to remove post date showing in Google search results

When was the last time you submitted your page for indexing?

Have you viewed how Googlebot will see your page? See the “View the rendered page” section here.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9012289?hl=en

last updated by Google desktop bot 25/03/2020, there is no date for pages in SERP, this problem is only with posts all my post have date in google results snippet.
i want to remove the function date published from inside the post code is it possible?

• This reply was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by zohaibkhan5.

Hi,

Ya, you can probably run a filter if you want to remove dates. Or, whip-up CSS like you’ve tried. Let’s see what the moderators say–if they have a great hook for that. This is WordPress. You can filter just about anything. ??

But, I think your bigger issue is Yoast. It’s setting your dateModified and datePublished meta just like a good little SEO plugin should do.

<script
  type="application/ld+json"
  class="yoast-schema-graph yoast-schema-graph--main"
>
  {
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@graph": [
      {
        "@type": "WebSite",
        "@id": "https://testfellow.com/#website",
        "url": "https://testfellow.com/",
        "name": "testfellow",
        "inLanguage": "en-US",
        "description": "Online MCQs Test Preparation for Competitive Exams",
        "potentialAction": [
          {
            "@type": "SearchAction",
            "target": "https://testfellow.com/?s={search_term_string}",
            "query-input": "required name=search_term_string"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "@type": "WebPage",
        "@id": "https://testfellow.com/#webpage",
        "url": "https://testfellow.com/",
        "name": "Online MCQs Test Preparation for Competitive Exams like NTS,PPSC",
        "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://testfellow.com/#website" },
        "inLanguage": "en-US",
        "datePublished": "2018-10-13T11:20:13+00:00",
        "dateModified": "2020-03-25T13:34:13+00:00",
        "description": "testfellow.com is an online quiz website which contains solved MCQs questions for the preparation of competitive exams, or Jobs Test like NTS, PPSC, FPSC",
        "potentialAction": [
          { "@type": "ReadAction", "target": ["https://testfellow.com/"] }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
</script>
<!-- / Yoast SEO plugin. -->

Maybe turn Yoast off and remove all visible dates from all your posts? I think Googlebot is pretty smart. If it smells like a blog, it’s going to look for a date.

https://searchengineland.com/google-explains-how-dates-within-search-results-snippets-work-313742

Good luck!

• This reply was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by mark l chaves. Reason: Reformatted code snippet

Hi there,

you can use the filter provided here to only display the Updated date if it is available:

https://docs.generatepress.com/article/generate_post_date_output/#only-show-updated-date

i don’t want to show any date in SERP.

Try this filter:

add_filter( 'generate_post_date_output', function( $output, $time_string ) {
    return '';
}, 10 , 2);

This will remove the timestamp elements generated by the Theme.
Note: this will not affect any meta that may be added by another plugin such as Yoast, it also may not prevent Google from displaying a date.

ok thanks, i will let u know if it worked

You’re welcome