Traffic drops when showing post dates?
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Hello. My blog is 9 years old and i just got serious with regards to earnings. I have observed that whenever i showed published date traffic drops immediately.
For years i stopped showing dates. But now, i feel dates are an important factor in Rich snippets because most of competitors who are shown in rich snippets are also showing dates. So i started showing "UPDATED ON" in the Genesis theme framework.
Traffic drop is the same as before. Why is traffic dropping whenever i show dates? Even when i show updated dates, wherein all articles show dates of just 1-2 years and none of them are showing how old the site is.
And yes, quality is high, content is high. URL is www.marketing91.com
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Give this a read. What you are seeing isn't something unheard of. http://www.shoutmeloud.com/effect-of-showing-date-stamp-on-blog-traffic-case-study.html
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