Dumb SEO Questions

(Entry was posted by Terre SlanderXander on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 10/10/2019).

Removing the meta post date and author

hello everyone ! hope all is well. I am new here and have my first dumb SEO questoin: Does removing the meta post date and author from a blog post on a wordpress website - affect the SEO?
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YOUR ANSWERS

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

  • Victoria Gitelshtein: I can`t exactly understand what you mean. But If you are asking if you can modify your content - yes you can. more them that, you supposed to come back to it time to time and if it needs some updating, you can update it. This will do help to make your blog relevant and seo friendly.
    If you want to modify meta tags like title or description of some page, you also can do it. Especially if you made some check and understand that you need to improve your meta tags. This is also good to do for seo.
  • Terre SlanderXander: there are different ways to remove the Blog post Author on my wordpress. Basically, right now all my post say "admin"
  • Terre SlanderXander: i want to remove the author AND date on my blog post.
  • Terre SlanderXander: I believe there are plug ins that perform this action. and you can mess with the code.
  • Terre SlanderXander: im just wondering will my SEO be affected by removing the dates and author off of my blog post- for ANY website.
  • Tim Capper: It should not affect anything, but dates are good for users, I would keep that in
  • Michael Martinez: I`ve done it both ways. I don`t see any effect on rankings. For some sites I prefer not to show dates. For other sites I do.

View original question in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 10/10/2019).