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Warning
publish-date-missingArticle declares a publication date
What this check means
Checks that a page presenting itself as an article carries a machine-readable publication date.
Why it matters
AI systems weigh recency heavily when choosing what to cite. Undated content is treated as of unknown age, which in practice means it loses to anything that can prove it is current.
How we detect it
We only judge pages that declare themselves articles. On those we look for datePublished in JSON-LD, an article:published_time meta tag, or a <time datetime> element.
How to fix it
Add "datePublished" to your Article schema in ISO 8601 form, and "dateModified" when you revise it.
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