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[–] 18495957? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I looked at the source from one of the April articles and did a search for April. None could be found. I searched for May and it was found.

I can't wrap my head around this one. Where is Google finding the April dates? If your theory is correct, all the dates would be the same from the source posting the article, correct?

This is weird.

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[–] 18496982? ago 

Appreciate you in this comment being open, not typical boomer hurr durr of "dis is proofs!!".

What I feel is habbening.. The IT team at these places is either all automated or partially automated, poorly either way... maybe the iT crew isnt good, or maybe they are smaller than they should be and thus just set.things up to "work" not concerned about small details around the database or site.

In which case that would prob mean reusing the same batch process or something from a week ago in order to push out a new article.

Or not Whatev. Just a thought.,_

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[–] 18496744? ago  (edited ago)

Yeah, this seems to be happening repeatedly. For all we know Google is intentionally fucking with timestamps so if there is a slipup they'll have plausible deniability. More likely it's due to some fuckup on the publisher's side or some SEO tactic (old articles get more "authority" in search algo so publishers play games with metadata?).

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[–] 18502602? ago 

This doesn’t make sense with all the stuff I’ve read on SEO. Google is supposed to be pulling information from the page and displaying results found on those pages. I should be able to find the April dates in the page source code. It’s not there.

No way Google is using place holders. And if publishers were using templates...all the dates would be messed up.

Any other SEO folks out there with an idea to explain the dates?