Haha, funny story on how marketing people, even at a well known place like Fast Company, don’t know how to do SEO. Changing the published dates on post to rank better lol. As if Google goes by that.
Google’s John Mueller responded to one complaint about a publisher trying to trick Google, saying that technique is “an old trick.” Of course, that implies whatever the trick is, that it is something Google already handles and using that technique does not help the page rank higher.
In short, someone was upset that Fast Company was changing the article publish date and datemodified code to say the article was written today, but it was written long ago. The person assumed it was helping the pages rank well but I doubt it was.
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