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This is... not how ads/webcrawling works? I'm probably about as anti-google as anyone here, but blindly chanting a mantra benefits no one. If we think about th
by andrewzah 7y ago
This is... not how ads/webcrawling works? I'm probably about as anti-google as anyone here, but blindly chanting a mantra benefits no one.
If we think about this logically, it makes sense that putting content into formats that the webscraping bot recognizes would score better than formats that it doesn't recognize.
For what it's worth, you can also put the date in semantic html tags. [0, 1, 2] Not only is this pretty easy, it also makes the site more accessible to people who use screen readers, etc. Here is how I do it (statically generated). [3]
[0]: https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_semantic_elements.asp https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_semantic_elements.asp
[1]: http://schema.org/Article http://schema.org/Article
[2]: https://schema.org/datePublished https://schema.org/datePublished
[3]: https://github.com/azah/personal-site-public/blob/master/posts/building-home-server-freenas/index.html#L65 https://github.com/azah/personal-site-public/blob/master/pos...
- brudgers 7y agoI'm not anti-google. I'm anti-distraction. Logically, there is a best toothpaste for gardening but shopping for it won't change the number of weeds that need pulling or put more cucumbers on the vine. Living in the imaginary world where fame and fortune come from Google search results is easier than facing the blank page.