Google has penalized sites for faking update dates since October 2017
lilyraynyc · x · 2026-10-17
Google first officially addressed and started penalizing websites for faking update dates in October 2017. At the State of Search conference, Google's Gary Illyes confirmed that artificially updating or faking dates would result in Google removing the site's ability to show date bylines in search result snippets.
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