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Warning publish-date-missing

Article 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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