YoastSEO Plugin Assistance

  • Resolved rendermonk

    (@rendermonk)


    5 years, 4 months ago

    I am having an issue where Google Search Results are displaying a date next to my homepage. You can see it in the link here;

    It’s not the date that it was created, and more importantly, I don’t want a date being displayed for the homepage at all. All other pages in Google Search Results are showing the date the post was published, which is fine. I just need to remove the date for the homepage.

    The Theme I’m using is Zeen, from Codetipi. I have tried to address this with them, and they said it appears to be being output by the Yoast Plugin. Here’s a link to the script in the trouble ticket

    Could you please stop the date from displaying on the Google Results page for my homepage https://www.livelootlevel.com or advise me how to do this. Thanks

    • This topic was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by rendermonk.
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  • Google search results are controlled by Google. You can’t really influence this.

    Thread Starter rendermonk

    (@rendermonk)

    You can if the Yoast plugin is outputting the publish date. Can you not remove this? I have had people contact me after viewing this forum, saying they can do it. Can you?

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by rendermonk.

    On your home page, the meta description does not include a date.

    Thread Starter rendermonk

    (@rendermonk)

    I know. This is why you need to go into the script editor and remove the date that’s being output on the search engine results page.

    Google scripts are not on your site and you can’t access them. Google is adding something that’s not being output by the SEO plugin, so nothing in the plugin can remove it.

    Thread Starter rendermonk

    (@rendermonk)

    So your saying my issue has nothing to do with the Yoast plugin?

    Is there anyone on the team that runs these forums, that can perhaps identify what the problem is, not just say, it’s not here, and the actually help me fix the problem? Again, I’ve had run of the mill coders contacting me trying to do the work. Can no one from WordPress fix this?

    I didnt have this issue when using Weebly.

    Plugin Support amboutwe

    (@amboutwe)

    The information Yoast outputs is contained between the HTML comments stating the plugin name.

    <!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO -->
STUFF OUTPUT BY YOAST
<!-- / Yoast SEO plugin. -->

    The dates within this area do not match the date Google outputs. This means Google gets the information from another part of the homepage.

    That said, I reviewed the source code and the date output in Google matches the date of one of the articles. The flipboard includes meta data for the datetime of the article. Google is associating that datetime with the page datetime. Removing that markup should prevent Google from showing a date.

    <time class="entry-date published dateCreated flipboard-date" datetime="2019-09-24T19:38:44-04:00">September 24, 2019</time>

    Please contact the author or support team for the plugin or theme that adds the flipboard feature to your site.

    Plugin Support amboutwe

    (@amboutwe)

    This thread has been marked as resolved due to a lack of activity.

    You’re always welcome to re-open this topic. Please read this post before opening a new request.

    Thanks for understanding!

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