{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mblaschke/TYPO3-metaseo/issues/67","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mblaschke/TYPO3-metaseo/issues/67/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mblaschke/TYPO3-metaseo/issues/67/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mblaschke/TYPO3-metaseo/issues/67/events","html_url":"https://github.com/mblaschke/TYPO3-metaseo/issues/67","id":89962102,"number":67,"title":"google: no page date in search results","user":{"login":"thomaszbz","id":11200727,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/11200727?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/thomaszbz","html_url":"https://github.com/thomaszbz","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/thomaszbz/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/thomaszbz/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/thomaszbz/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/thomaszbz/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/thomaszbz/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/thomaszbz/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/thomaszbz/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/thomaszbz/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/thomaszbz/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-06-21T21:16:22Z","updated_at":"2015-06-23T01:43:39Z","closed_at":null,"body":"As of 2697c177b3d39f83bf0dc83521207d17d146b850 using HTML5 meta tags, google is not showing a date before the page description in search results.\r\n\r\nI have 2697c177b3d39f83bf0dc83521207d17d146b850 running now for multiple weeks and the search results are like\r\n\r\n    https://www.example.com\r\n    Some description\r\n\r\nwhile it's\r\n\r\n    https://www.not.example.com\r\n    01.01.2015 Some description\r\n\r\non other web sites (from other individuals).\r\n\r\nTo keep in mind is that we have changed the date meta tag to validate against HTML5.\r\n\r\nBesides meta tags, the date could also come from the sitemap xml. I noticed, that google search console (aka web master tools), section \"Content Keywords\" show me a bunch of entries like \r\n\r\n    09t23\r\n    daily\r\n\r\nThat clearly indicates that google is parsing sitemap meta information as content.\r\n\r\nI sent google a sitemap index URL of the form\r\n\r\n    https://www.example.com/?id=2&type=841132\r\n\r\nwhich contains the URL of the real sitemap xml:\r\n\r\n    https://www.example.com/index.php?id=2&type=841132&page=1&cHash=...\r\n\r\nIt could have happened that google is not reading the latter one as a sitemap but as page content. I also see its url in the search result which is also stupid.\r\n\r\nTherefore, I now gave google the sitemap URL (instead of the sitemap index URL)\r\n\r\n    https://www.example.com/?id=2&type=841132&page=1\r\n\r\nand now I will hopefully see if something changes in the next days in respect to page dates and stupid \"Content Keywords\".\r\n\r\nIf google does not handle sitemap indexes right, I would have to give google the \"page=1\" version. Is there some pagination used in metaseo? What is the cHash good for?\r\n\r\nOr is something missing to identify the \"page=1\" version as a sitemap? I would say that google even is interpreting it right as a sitemap because I get the right number of links shown in Search Console while otherwise there would be just one link. In a way that's not looking consistent what google seems to be doing here.\r\n\r\nFor the moment, I think metaseo has a valid implementation of the sitemap and sitemap index protocol.\r\n\r\nThis issue needs investigation. For google reverse engineering purposes experiences from other users would be welcome. Perhaps someone finds an official statement how google thinks web developers should seo HTML5 and propagate a page date (how simple is that?). At least there should be some \"best practise\" communicated by W3C but all I see is confusion and meta/structured data/validation hell for HTML5. In the end, the page html should contain a date because in general, sitemaps are optional.\r\n\r\nReferences:\r\nhttp://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mblaschke/TYPO3-metaseo/issues/comments/114323972","html_url":"https://github.com/mblaschke/TYPO3-metaseo/issues/67#issuecomment-114323972","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mblaschke/TYPO3-metaseo/issues/67","id":114323972,"user":{"login":"thomaszbz","id":11200727,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/11200727?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/thomaszbz","html_url":"https://github.com/thomaszbz","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/thomaszbz/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/thomaszbz/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/thomaszbz/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/thomaszbz/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/thomaszbz/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/thomaszbz/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/thomaszbz/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/thomaszbz/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/thomaszbz/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-06-23T01:43:39Z","updated_at":"2015-06-23T01:43:39Z","body":"maybe a related issue: https://forge.typo3.org/issues/62004"}}