Google: Says Dates On Articles Makes It Easier To Recognize High-Quality Evergreen Content

Google's John Mueller again is saying that putting dates on content and articles is a good thing for the quality of a piece of content on the web. John said on Twitter the other day "Better for me is to know what the date was, that makes it easier to recognize high-quality evergreen content."

Here is the tweet within context:

Better for me is to know what the date was, that makes it easier to recognize high-quality evergreen content. — 🍌 John 🍌 (@JohnMu) August 16, 2019

Here is the follow up:

What's wrong with providing a date? If users are going there for information, a date can be pretty useful. — 🍌 John 🍌 (@JohnMu) August 16, 2019

John said previously you should add dates to content, and can go as far as penalize sites that fake dates. I want Google to go further add a no date penalty for categories of content.

Forum discussion at Twitter.