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Tom Nunn
Tom Nunn
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Posted by Tom Nunn
Tom Nunn
16,333 Points

How to remove Date from Meta Description on SERP?

I noticed on a few recent projects the Date is displaying in the Meta Description for all Custom Post Types and Taxonomies in WordPress. I was always under the impression the Date would usually show for 'Posts', which has always made sense. Then for Pages and Taxonomies - which would normally be evergreen content in most scenarios NO date would appear when seeing the snippet on a SERP.

I use the Genesis Framework and Yoast SEO for most projects and have looked into seeing if the date showing in the meta description is related to the Parent Theme or Plugin and it doesn't seem to be.

Yoast say the date is produced naturally by Wordpress.

I'm slightly confused though as I have never had this issue until recently, I was interested in seeing if anyone else has noticed this and if there is a solution to removing the date from all CPTs and Taxonomies?

1 Answer

Tom Nunn
Tom Nunn
16,333 Points
Tom Nunn
Tom Nunn
16,333 Points

If anyone else encounters this, check your source code and try and find the date in question, Googlebot normally finds these dates there.

It turned out the Googlebot was picking up a date in the footer of my site, via the WordPress Latest Posts Widget.