Remove date from meta description

  • Resolved adamovic

    (@adamovic)


    6 months, 1 week ago

    With the last update, Yoast SEO added a fixed date and dash to each meta description. While I understand the intent, I refuse to have a plugin force something into my meta descriptions that I didn’t put there myself.

    Please let me know how I can remove the date and the dash from the meta descriptions or let me know how I can revert to the previous version of the plugin.

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  • Plugin Support Jose Varghese

    (@josevarghese)

    Hi everyone,

    Thanks for using the Yoast SEO plugin on your websites.

    First, I would like to clarify that the even if the “Date and seperator” shows within the meta descripton field from the latest version 22.7, the same date won’t be added to your meta description within the source code. You can confirm this by checking the source code.

    The reason why we have added “Date -” to the meta description field is to help our users to understand that Google may include a date on?pages. That allows you to tailor your meta descriptions and results better and avoid getting ‘cut off’ when a date is shown for your page. Moroever, this will also help our users to get a clear idea on the meta description length assessment as we add the character count of the date and the separator in our analysis. You can also read more on our KB article:?Date appears in search results and How to create the right meta description.

    That being said, even though you are currently seeing the date on the snippet preview and meta description field, it doesn’t mean that Google will always show the date on the search results. So it is best for everyone to see the date on the snippet preview and meta description field so you can optimize the meta description without any getting ‘cut off’.

    Thread Starter adamovic

    (@adamovic)

    Thanks for the clarification @josevarghese, it wasn’t obvious that this is just a ‘cosmetic’ and not actually a part of the published meta description. Upon checking the source code, I can confirm that the date and the dash aren’t included.

    I have no problem with this then.

    Moderator Support Moderator

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