SERP Snippet – Modified Date and not Post Date

Hello!

Here Google explains how they obtain publication and updated dates: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9253249.

The problem is that Google doesn’t interpret German intelligently, so providing the dates on your webpage doesn’t always work. Instead, you’ll have to rely on structured data.

I see you only recently removed the publication dates from the HTML output. It may work as you intend it to, but you’ll have to wait (a couple of weeks) for Google to reprocess the pages before you can find out.

For better results, see if you can match the examples provided on Google’s German documentation page:

Stand: 4. Februar 2019
Ver?ffentlichung: 4. Februar 2019
Zuletzt aktualisiert: 14. Februar 2018
Aktualisiert: 14. Februar 2019, 20 Uhr ET

When you spot that Google doesn’t pick that up, I’m afraid you’ll have to resort to structured data. We provide the one you’re looking for via our Articles extension easily, but alternative solutions are also available via www.remarpro.com plugins.

I hope this helps ?? Cheers!

Good morning,

will check if the docs tells me more, but I think structured data can be the key.

Is there also an option to add this article data within microdata? So that I can use the modified_data php function to add this to all my pages?

Additional to this.. as you see I am using MedicalWebPage as the “root” structured data. Now when I am add article within this, I got an issue: Article is no valid type for the property MedicalWebPage.

I checked the medicalWebPage type again and there is the property for “lastReviewed”. I added this now, but I think that google is not checking this.
itemprop="lastReviewed"

best,
M.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by skruffes.
• This reply was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by skruffes.
• This reply was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by skruffes.

Morning!

Yes, I see you already went ahead with that. ??

For the lastReviewed property you implemented, the content isn’t only a date. Instead, it’s a sentence with the data. This makes it more easily understood by humans (that’s good!), but it’s not interpretable by machines (oh no!).

You can work around this by also specifying the value attribute, with the exact attribute value understood by machines:

<tag itemprop="lastReviewed" value="2019-12-04">Anything goes here</tag>

Cheers ??

thank you very much for the detailed information.

I updated it now, hope this will work now ??