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How many people type the whole URL and how many access it over Google, QR code, or from other site? This is good if content is unique. I find URLs with dates us
by taubek 5y ago
How many people type the whole URL and how many access it over Google, QR code, or from other site? This is good if content is unique. I find URLs with dates useful when I want to quickly assess how fresh is the content.
- andai 5y agoI often find articles that don't have the date at all, and the information turns out to be really out of date. Is hiding the date some kind of SEO trend?
- chillfox 5y agoRumor has it that Google penalizes content with a date older than a year.
- raverbashing 5y agoWow what a great reason to take dates out of articles! /s Yeah, maybe if you're SEOing for a content farm bot, but if you have actual content, that you and other people care about, add the fsking date.
- andai 5y agoBut doesn't their crawler keep track of when a page first appeared, and when it's updated? I wouldn't expect just removing the date to work in this regard, but I don't know.
- dewey 5y ago> I often find articles that don't have the date at all At the same time I also always find articles that have an "Updated at" timestamp of a few days ago, I guess that's somehow done automatically to gain some recency points for SEO, not sure if that or removing the timestamp is more annoying.
- dijit 5y ago> I often find articles that don't have the date at all I hate this trend, one theory I heard was that it helps the content appear "ever-green". Another theory is that it helps hide inactivity of content updates; like 100s of articles will be produced in a short span of time and then nothing for months or even years. But yes, I hate it.
- tln 5y agoQR codes benefit from shorter URLs too!
- yencabulator 5y agoQR codes are by definition unreadable, so for those you can use example.com/s/<random> or such.