Will first publish date be lost?

  • Resolved MTO

    (@mto)


    8 years, 1 month ago

    Hello,
    I am very interested in this plugin (pro version for the filter option) but there are some issues I am thinking about as I decide if it interests me:

    As I understand, it changes post date to today.

    I happen to have lots of blog sites that plagiarize my content (too many to go after them), but at least Google knows I published it first, and usually that helps in SEO. I wonder if, when changing publish date, it will appear I am the one copying others. Does this add a way, or could it add a way in future versions, to add a “first published date notice”? I think this would be very needed.

    Thanks.

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  • Plugin Author Marios Alexandrou

    (@marios-alexandrou)

    I’m not sure how Google will behave. They don’t make much public!

    However, if I had to guess I’d say that Google doesn’t use the date you put on the page to determine ownership. Instead, I’m sure Google has a discovery date that it assigns. No guarantees of course.

    My logic is that if Google used the date on the page, then I could claim all of the NY Times by republishing their content and setting the on-page date to a week earlier.

    Thread Starter MTO

    (@mto)

    Thanks for your quick reply!

    You think you could add an option to somehow keep & display “original publish date”, even if we have to add it somehow to the theme? So it does not get lost.

    Maybe even attach “originally published on xdate” at the end of post.

    I use the publish date for copyright notification: “DATE ? Author”, I would love to republish as my content is very long and burried in history. But I would only do so if I could keep the original date somehow visible for copyright claims (they might even claim they authored it, people are weird I tell you).

    Plugin Author Marios Alexandrou

    (@marios-alexandrou)

    A custom field is create called rop_original_pub_date that stores the original date and you can access it as you please.

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