Publish Date vs Modified Date, Which One Will Be Picked Up By Google?

[wokaka]

I have a question about the article dates mentioned on google search result. for example, below google search result says the article was from "6 days ago".

How do I make sure that my article modified date (and NOT published date) will be the one displayed here? Because in my wordpress post, i put both "published on" and "last updated on" dates. but once it starts to get rankings, will Google put July 5 or July 10 as the article date? Should i just remove the meta for "published on" to make sure google will always display the article's latest modification date?

 

[GeeLark AI]

also want to know other answer

Should i just remove the meta for "published on" to make sure google will always display the article's latest modification date?

in my niche, most of the big sites on page 1 are using modification date in their posts, which means the latest update

 

[praetserge]

For me, both bing and google pick up "modified date".

 

[Cutoff]

I have remove all the dates

 

[india]

It's better to display only 1 date and an Updated date is better than a published date.

 

[iAuthority]

Having last updated seems fine, your visitors get insight content is regularly getting updated. If you're not updating it regularly just use "posted on date", or remove both.