Potential Google SERP’s issue on displaying published date

[adrian]

adrian

October 2, 2020 at 6:09 am

Google is no longer displaying in SERP’s the published date for the articles. I have no idea since when this is happening and I just noticed it.

There is no setting for this in the RankMath SEO plugin and they advised this is a common theme issue (in general, not yours).

Example URL *Login to see link although the problem is sitewide.

I have the date enabled in Kandence and update data disabled. However, the code inside the page is this: <span class=”posted-on”>
<time class=”entry-date published” datetime=”2020-09-30T11:38:02-07:00″>September 30, 2020</time><time class=”updated” datetime=”2020-09-30T11:40:35-07:00″>September 30, 2020</time> </span>

However, only one of them is shown, the correct one.

Google Webmaster Forums on the matter: *Login to see link

Can you please check other blogs that run on your platform if they have the same problem? This should narrow it down if it’s something on my site or a more general problem.

Maybe a fix is the lack of schema markup for the publish date?

I could also add a hint before the date such as Published or Updated but I checked a lot of sites and they pick it without that.

Thank you.