How to remove Date stamp from Google SERP description?

Some of you may have noticed that when your blog (or individual post) is listed on Google search results (SERPs), a date stamp gets prepended to the meta description of the indexed page (see the image below). There are are various theories regarding how and from where Google picks this date stamp. Some believe that it is the time stamp of the last post on your blog, where as a few others believe that it’s the date on which your site is last indexed. Regardless of the reason, sometimes this extra date field can be a bit annoying for some of you and in this post let me explain how you can remove the same.


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Facebook fan page: Create one for your brand or business today

Exactly two years ago, I had maintained that facebook is going to witness explosive growth over its competition. Today it has actually done so and well beyond expectations at that. It’s no more a mere social networking platform but also a place where people market their products and promote their brands.

Facebook fan pages have become one of the bare minimum ingredients for any company in order to successfully build its brand and online campaigns (even for offline success). Last night, I spend some time to build a small fan page for DollarShower and I strongly recommend that you build one for your business today! Creating a fan page is as simple as 1-2-3 as explained in this post.
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SERP Analytics – Free SEO Analytics & SEM Tool

I recently came across this amazing free SEO analytics site called SERP Analytics. At the first glance, it looked to me like a normal search site but as I started digging deeper, I realized that it has got a set of powerful tools for SERP-SEO specialists, Internet Marketers and bloggers.

SERPAnalytics.com is an online solution and hence you don’t need to download anything to get started – not even a browser toolbar as in the case of some other solutions. Some of the exciting features of this include detailed site statistics from SEO point of view, top paying AdSense keywords, SEO parameters under live search results from Google, Yahoo or Bing etc and lot more as explained below.
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KPMRS.com – Keyword Position Monitoring Report Service

I have been receiving these campaign mails from one of the founders of KPMRS for a while now. Initially, I was wondering what this funny acronym was and never really cared to open the site. After some persistent effort from his end I visited their site and finally they managed to get me to write this unpaid review without really asking for it.

KPMRS.com is an amazing free search engine rank monitoring tool for your site’s keywords. kpmrs logoAnd I must say that it’s one of the fastest I have seen so far. It can simultaneously check for your search ranks on Google, Yahoo and Bing in less than a couple of seconds for a particular keyword. [Read more...]

Free backlinks via Product Offers or Services

Link building is a never ending process as your site’s search competency has to be continuously maintained throughout its lifetime. While SEO experts are digging into more and more innovative (but expensive) ways to optimize websites for search visibility, there are quite a few cleaner and rather inexpensive ways by which you can build 1000s of backlinks to your website.

Here in this post I am talking about the free services and products that you can offer in exchange of quality oneway backlinks to your website or blog. Some of these options provide one time benefits where as others can churn out numerous links to your blog/site over time.
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bing SEO tips

Fine, 90% of your organic traffic comes from Google search and not from Microsoft bing, Yahoo or other entities. bing seo tipsBut it wouldn’t hurt if you can get a little more search traffic on top of what you already receive, right? Here are some bing SEO (Search Engine Optimization) tips as documented by the official bing blog.

(Before applying these tips, check if your blog is already getting 6% to 8% of the overall search traffic from bing. If so, there is not much room for optimization as it almost already reflect the bing market share)
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