We have just put up a post, less than 2 hours ago. We usually rank pretty well, including in this case. Regardless, when I search on google.com for the post by name, it comes up as the first result.
However, it says the post is 2 days old, when it's no more than 2 hours old:
I have the Schema.org markup done pretty well, and I just checked the dateCreated
and datePublished
and everything seems to be in order:
Deleted this image showing proper dateCreated
and dateModified
schema.org markup as I am only allowed to post 2 links per post
I know it's difficult to know why Google does what it does, but has anyone had this problem before? I don't think it's a common problem because no matter how I rephrase the question, I am finding 0 relevant results.
Any ideas on why this mislabeling of the article's publish date could be happening?
Update:
I just got the headers and everything seems to be correct:
Receiving Header:
HTTP/1.1·200·OK(CR)(LF)
Server:·nginx/1.9.12(CR)(LF)
Date:·Fri,·04·Mar·2016·03:01:32·GMT(CR)(LF)
Content-Type:·text/html;·charset=UTF-8(CR)(LF)
Content-Length:·133023(CR)(LF)
Connection:·close(CR)(LF)
Vary:·Accept-Encoding(CR)(LF)
X-Powered-By:·PHP/5.6.18(CR)(LF)
Vary:·Accept-Encoding,·Cookie(CR)(LF)
Cache-Control:·max-age=3,·must-revalidate(CR)(LF)
WP-Super-Cache:·Served·supercache·file·from·PHP(CR)(LF)
Last-Modified:·Thu,·03·Mar·2016·22:21:02·GMT(CR)(LF)
(CR)(LF)
I've looked everywhere I can think of for a time and then looked everywhere else and I can't find any leads.
Update 2
I believe the issue may have been hAtom (h-Atom) entries. This is my only solid lead.
The way I had the time displayed for these posts was "time that has passed since publishing," (eg, "2 hours ago"). The h-Atom markup was using this "time that has passed" time, rather than the proper ISO 8601 format UTC time (eg, 2016-03-06T19:48:15+00:00) I was outputting for the schema.org markup.
I am suspecting this h-Atom marked up "time ago" time because I have 0 other leads. All metas, indexes, registrations, pings, headers and everything else I can think of and of the suggestions given here is and has been correct, 'cause that's just how I roll. Maybe Google somehow misunderstood "2 hours ago" to be some date or to be "2 days ago"? But of course, why wouldn't it properly parse "days" as "days"? :/ Again, no leads.
About 24 hours after I updated the h-Atom time to the ISO format, Google search results showed the proper time, and in this specific case, the time jumped from "5 days ago"(incorrect) to "2 days ago."