Jondoe0069

I bought WFReview and have been playing with it and I'm curious if it would be stupid of me to randomize my post dates going back a few months even thought my domains may not be that old? Would that be a red flag to the SE's?

It seems like a pretty dumb idea to me, but I don't want every post to have the same date and when I use the feature to post randomly at future dates, everything posts immediately with future dates and I have to go back and change them to drafts.

I know this is a stupid question, which is why I posted in the noob section.

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AngryMac

hmmm Google may be that devious, doubt Yahoo or MSN are. it intrigues me what others will say

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wiggywack

I don't think you're going to have any problems with this. Google isn't going to say "Hey, the WordPress post date is January 2009 but he didn't register this domain until June 2009!" There are many legitimate reasons to be doing this. You'll be fine. Post-date away...

Bombastic

I backdated a bunch of posts on some autoblogs and have had no problems so far.

What I'm wondering is if there's a plugin that allows you to easily edit the posts' dates all on one screen rather then editing each post individualy. That shit took me forever when I did them all individually.

HarveyJ

I've moved a blog to a more appropriate domain in the past, that was registered after a lot of the content was written. So I had a lot of articles that were prior the domain registration and they were all posted at once.

Didn't notice any major penalty on it. Ranked 4th on G for the decently competitive keywords I was going for after a week.

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bprimeelite

It really makes no difference because search engines consider dates of pages from the first time they are indexed not by the date on the page.

jryan21

Only real concern would be from human visitors who know how to use WHOIS and/or give a fuck enough to check it. You could always make post #1 be something to the effect of "finally moved site to a new host, domain, sorry to all those who were having problems accessing the site."

Jondoe0069

Thanks for all the input. I figured it would be OK, but Gaggle seems to cry over stupid shit sometimes, so I figured I would tap the experts for advice and maybe even see a few meats spinning while I was at it.

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Jondoe0069

Anyone who knows enough to check whois would probably hit the back button before even looking enough to see dates, so I'm not too worried about them. The idea about post #1 is a great idea. I will make a few variations of that and put them across the sites in case the G man comes looking manually.

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Drake

I have seen people do stupid things like "June of 1968 went to Woodstock" and stuff on their blogs.

I hope Google can take a joke.