What Blackhat Plugin is That?

[buddieluv]

This thread was the closest topicwise for this.. please bear with me..

I'm looking for a plugin that auto refreshes published dates for posts and pages.
Say for instance, I have a post published way back whence in 2016, and I want the post to look current, so this plugin automatically refreshes the published date to, say the last 3 to 6 months of this year etc.

Can't seem to find an active plugin that does this.
The closest I came to, is the "WP Last Modified Info" plugin, but this only shows the actual date you last modified a post, instead of refreshing the last published date.

Thanks in advance for your feedback

 

[SirLouen]

There is a little issue with this that I'm not sure if you have taken into account: duplicate content. If you do this, in case someone else copies your content, you may lose your "authority" for being primer. You will to start dealing with DMCA and all that things in order to keep your content fresh + non-duplicate

There are other SEO tactics much more powerful in order to recover freshness
https://cognitiveseo.com/blog/21200/fresh-content-seo/

If you talk more about what are you looking maybe we could find something more adequate than just updating your publication dates automatically that unless you are working on something like a fake news page that needs max freshness to viral the news, I can't see any other utility.

Anyway, you could create a function with a simple scheduler in your functions.php
https://themes.artbees.net/blog/wordpress-cron-jobs/
And keep a manual array of your post ids. Or just WP_Query all your posts to keep them all updated at once.

 

[terrycody]

I had tried a plugin I can't remember the name, it will bulk edit all published date of posts, and later, the search engine indeed "refreshed" those dates on the cache, so it worked. That is an old plugin, I think by google a while you can find it.

try to search " wordpress" bulk edit date plugin, etc.

 

[aidenhera]

There is a little issue with this that I'm not sure if you have taken into account: duplicate content. If you do this, in case someone else copies your content, you may lose your "authority" for being primer. You will to start dealing with DMCA and all that things in order to keep your content fresh + non-duplicate

There are other SEO tactics much more powerful in order to recover freshness
https://cognitiveseo.com/blog/21200/fresh-content-seo/

If you talk more about what are you looking maybe we could find something more adequate than just updating your publication dates automatically that unless you are working on something like a fake news page that needs max freshness to viral the news, I can't see any other utility.

Anyway, you could create a function with a simple scheduler in your functions.php
https://themes.artbees.net/blog/wordpress-cron-jobs/
And keep a manual array of your post ids. Or just WP_Query all your posts to keep them all updated at once.

idk about DMCA, but google assigning the ownership to the one with oldest schema tag date on post would be pretty dumb as you can set it manually to year 2000.

google will likelly assign the content to the domain with biggest authority

i think what OP describes, i saw on popular SEO blogger blog. all his posts were 'edited' in last month, regardless the fact he had 300 posts and they in fact werent

 

[itsmegauri]

old post promoter plugin?

 

[SirLouen]

but google assigning the ownership to the one with oldest schema tag date on post would be pretty dumb as you can set it manually to year 2000.

This is not exactly the way, but one of the biggest mysteries... The thing is that once indexed it doesn't mind if you assigned year 2000 or year 2019. After a while (not sure how much time), if someone else index the article with a date 10 years before it will be 100% sure overridden. And also found (as commented in other post), that there other factors like Authority to assign the ownership.

But what I'm mostly sure, is that if you change the update date, the ownership is susceptible of change, just because of the refreshner signal.

 

[aidenhera]

This is not exactly the way, but one of the biggest mysteries... The thing is that once indexed it doesn't mind if you assigned year 2000 or year 2019. After a while (not sure how much time), if someone else index the article with a date 10 years before it will be 100% sure overridden. And also found (as commented in other post), that there other factors like Authority to assign the ownership.

But what I'm mostly sure, is that if you change the update date, the ownership is susceptible of change, just because of the refreshner signal.

no it wont be overriden. the ownership goes to the domain with biggest authority, not to the domain with oldest schema date tag

 

[SirLouen]

no it wont be overriden. the ownership goes to the domain with biggest authority, not to the domain with oldest schema date tag

This is not 100% true. There is some variable of maturity in the search results I have observed. It's true that with low level of maturity it goes to the biggest authority. When you change that date, you "reset" the maturity level.

In this case I'm assuming a high maturity for 2016 posts (2yr+)

We need further testing in this topic, since it is very interesting. In fact I wrote this one month ago regarding to the topic:
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/mind-blowing-copied-content-scenario.1124301/

 

[buddieluv]

Your responses are refreshing, THANK YOU!
This is a double edged-sword, attempting to please the search engine and indexing gods, and also attempting to please the reader!
When I'm searching for how-to video content, I try to steer clear of aged videos and opt for current videos.. so much has changed in the digital landscape of information.. how can I hope to attract someone to read my content written in 2009, as opposed to the very same content, with a datestamp of 2018?

People will always opt for fresh content, regardless of the search engine's perception of the published date!
I used to be big on ezinearticles, and most of my articles are all over the internet, sans attribution.. and it was a pain attempting to "hide" the content from leechers etc.. Now, I just write on my own blogs, and the age of the domain, not the age of the posts, speak volumes of how the content is being found.

Most of my traffic's from social media, SEO is a byproduct of the traffic I already am getting, so in this case, I will err on the side of domain authority.. if your content across the entire domain is good quality, I think I will weather the tides of algo changes.

I look forward to further dialog on this..

THANK YOU.