Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math support today and bringing your concern to our attention.
Google won’t give a definitive, single answer for how they pick a date. There are several ways through which Google picks the date to be shown in the search results.
Please go through this article for more information:
https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/03/help-google-search-know-best-date-for.html
One of the most prominent ways (in our experience), is the date shown by the theme on the page. Google usually picks and shows the date they see in the content itself and show it in the SERPs. You would need to contact your theme author to display the desired date on the frontend.
Since this can not be controlled by an SEO plugin, we do not show the date in our SERP preview. But, we do add the correct date in the Schema Markup generated by the plugin.
Here is a screenshot: Schema Markup
To know more about how dates within search result snippets work, please check the article below:
https://searchengineland.com/google-explains-how-dates-within-search-results-snippets-work-313742
We hope this information helps. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us, if you need help with anything else.
Thank you
Hello,
Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.
If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.
Thank you.
