: A date format that isn't picked up by Google as keyword My site is lacking a bit of written content through reasons I cannot control, but it does feature a lot of dates. Currently my top

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[…] if I put my dates in a specific format, will it know that they are dates and therefore exclude them as a keyword […]


I'm almost 100% sure it won't exclude them as keywords. I guess indefinite and definite articles, prepositions and such are much easier for a search algorithm to discount without erroneous results than are day or month names.

I suppose you could do a little experiment and try marking up publish dates with HTML5 <time> element, pubdate attribute, etc., and see if that does anything. I suspect it won't now, but might do in the future.

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