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By: onreact

onreact — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:31:41 +0000

Skellie: You do not get many visitors via Google because your blog is relatively new and you do not have many focused links yet. So it'll change in the future.

Your idea is interesting. It depends on the type of content I guess, some things like "New Wordpress 2.2 Is Out" age very quickly so a date would help people to know that 2.2 is not the newest version if they read it, say, in 6 months from now.

I guess the best way to add dates is to do it manually at the bottom of the post. Do it if you think it helps your visitors and don't add where it probably scares people off for no reason (as your blogging tips are timeless).

By: Skellie

Skellie — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 11:59:32 +0000

So do you think it would be a good idea to keep dates on the main page (to show new visitors it is current) but remove them from post pages so search engine visitors don’t know the content is old?

The only thing is… I don’t get many search engine visitors, because I’m terrible at SEO (and I also think it’s hard to use keywords for my topic). But I guess that’s an unrelated problem ;).

By: Simon Ward

Simon Ward — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:43:21 +0000

This “no dates” idea is interesting. I don’t break news on my blog, so I guess it doesn’t matter when articles are written. Good thoughts.

By: onreact

onreact — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 07:35:32 +0000

Well Skellie, exactly! Just take your articles. Most of them are not news but timeless rules of online publishing, usability and content creation. So who cares for a date? In fact a date only makes it less likely that a first time visitor will read them.

Most normal websites that serve no news do not display dates. So you assume that the contents are still valid when you find them.

By: Skellie

Skellie — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 00:59:19 +0000

That’s an interesting idea about not putting dates on posts. What if the article is sort of timeless though? As in, it doesn’t lose relevance with time?

By: onreact

onreact — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:50:19 +0000

Well, right Kelly, but what for? Polluting large parts of your blog? Rather wait 3 months and if the blogs runs all right and you probably got some PageRank by then you can sell some text links and earn more than that. 30$ is a very reasonable price for a PageRank 4 blog text link and many blogs reach PR 4.
This is not SEO 2.0 but sufficient for many people, especially in countries where most people earn 30$ a month.

By: Kelly Dodson

Kelly Dodson — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:41:51 +0000

…but, $50/month sounds pretty good to me.