Wrong date showing up in search results

[fred79]

I'm using the Beautiful theme.

When any page comes up in the google search results, the first thing that comes up is a date: "May 15th, 2013" followed by the snippet.

Even pages I just published last week still show up with that date.

Does anyone know why that might be happening and if there is a Genesis setting to correct that?

Thanks!

http://www.commercialtruckinsurancehq.com

[AnitaC]

Do you have your time zone settings correct under Settings?

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[fred79]

Thanks for answering, Anitac!

I did check that, and the timezone and date settings are all correct.

The odd thing is that the same date shows up in the google search results across many different pages.

Another odd thing is that these are pages and not posts, so I'm perplexed as to why Google is putting a date, and how they are determining the date.

By having an old date show up in the search results, I think that may be hurting my click through rates.

Any other ideas on why this is happening?

[David Chu]

Hi,
I did find what looks like a smoking gun. View source on this page:

Trucker’s Insurance 101

You'll see this.
<p dir="ltr">Last updated: May 15th, 2013</p>
There's a huge amount of code that is vanished via CSS. It's as if someone wanted to get the full contents of the Terms page onto various pages. I don't know if this is a sneaky way to try to get some SEO happening, output of some plugin, or what. You'll need to have some hands-on investigation.

Good luck,
Dave

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[fred79]

Dave,

Thank you so much. That is the smoking gun! I had a developer make the Terms and Conditions page open in a pop-up box but that should only have been on this page: http://www.commercialtruckinsurancehq.com/easy-quote-form

I'll have to find out why that code is showing up on every page.

I really appreciate you finding that, Dave!

[David Chu]

Fred,
Glad to hear it! Pretty perceptive of you to have caught that. It did look bizarre. 🙂

On the bright side, it's not a dangerous hack or something that would get you banned or anything!

Dave

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[AnitaC]

Wow David! You are the MAN!!!

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[fred79]

For real! Great find, Dave!

[David Chu]

Thanks, Folks!
I always want to solve the puzzle. 😉

Dave

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