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According to this:

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?q=http%3A%2F%2Fthpstockphotos.com%2Fimage%2Fhimalaya-mountains-9%2F

I have no date reference on my page anymore.

Let the experiment begin!

It will probably take a few weeks for all the pages to be crawled and the date removed. Will report back when I have some data to share.

Thanks Imago!

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GOT IT. Sorry, seems there was a problem with my editor not uploading the file propery.

Ok, got rid of the “Image Updated on…” text in the author box and the Dublin Core date from the header.

Can you check one of my image pages and see if you can spot anything I’ve missed?

http://thpstockphotos.com/image/himalaya-mountains-9/

Cheers! 🙂

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Ok well I commented it out, and then DELETED it from the functions.php file but it STILL SHOWS UP in the header!!

Cleared browser cache and site cache, nothing.

I’m obviously missing something…

Also, thanks for the Yoast tip but I don’t see that in my header – I don’t have open graph turned on so perhaps thats why.

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Found it:

<meta name="dc.title" content="" />

<meta name="dc.identifier" content="" />

<meta name="dc.description"

content="" />

<meta name="dc.subject" content="" />

<meta name="dc.creator" content="" />

<meta name="dc.contributor" content="" />

<meta name="dc.publisher" content="" />

<meta name="dc.license"

content="" />

<meta name="dc.type" scheme="dcMITYPE"

content="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Image" />

<meta name="dc.type" scheme="dcMITYPE"

content="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage" />

<?php if ( $related_images )

{

foreach ( $related_images as $related_image )

{

?>

<meta name="dc.relation"

content="ID ); ?>" />

<?php

}

}

?>



<meta name="dcterms.created" scheme="ISO8601"

content="" />



<?php

} else

{



?>



Title:




Url:




<a href="" class="identifier">



Description:




Subjects:




Author:




<a href="" class="creator">



License:




<a href=""

class="license"><?php echo symbiostock_eula(

'' , true ); ?>



Created:




Related:


<?php if ( $related_images )

{

foreach ( $related_images as $related_image )

{

?>



<a href="ID ); ?>"

class="relation"><?php echo $related_image

->post_title; ?>

in functions.php

There seems to be 3 times that the dc.created line is used. Which bits should I comment out? And if I comment it out here but another page is trying to call it will that cause problems?

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Hey thanks Imago, I appreciate that.

It seems the date is elsewhere too though, such as in the header:

From what I have read Google will grab the date from the line it finds first – in this case, this Dublin Core item in the header.

Any ideas how to remove the Dublin Core section?

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Just bumping this up, as I think this could be quite crucial to our success.

If you look at Shutterstocks search results in Google for instance, no dates are given for an image listed. This is because the images are “evergreen” – in other words, they don’t go out of date just because they were published last week.

But at the moment our sites are telling Google the date published which Google is running with and displaying, which (*I Think*) is having a negative impact on search results. (more so Web Search rather than Image Search)

AJT or Cascoly (in Leo’s absence) – is there any chance you could find the code for me to remove (or preferably comment out) the date from each image post so that there is no date info on the page whatsoever (either in the header, the dublin core or the actual page content), and I will happily trial this in Google and report back with my results?

Edit: I should add, there are a couple of plugins to do this, but they are 2 years out of date, and I also took a look at the code in some pages and it seems Leo has coded in his own calls to get the date/time of an image rather than the standard ones. Thus my need for help to try this experiment!

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Phew – what a relief to see these forums open again!

Please please please leave them open, there is much we can do to help each other here.

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Can they be adjusted rather than removed to make it work? I think there is some value in the content filters.

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[THPStockParticipant]

Ha, wow an REM reference! Nice! 🙂

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Bug thats existed for ages now, but I couldn’t see it on Cascoly’s list.

Problem with pagination when doing an image search or browsing categories on a site.

Eg: Go to any given category that has multiple pages of images, and then scroll through each page. You will notice some of the images show up on multiple pages. So an image you’ve already looked at on page 1, will appear again on say page 3 for instance.

I was trying to show a potential client my site some months ago and she noticed this issue. She wasn’t very impressed!

Hope this one can get looked at soon.

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Thanks imago, appreciate the suggestion.

I just feel that having to implement the full language translation to be able to alter a small piece of text is a bit overkill.

A simple admin option would be awesome, but perhaps its just wishful thinking!

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Can I just add a small request to the list of bugs/improvements, if its not already on there thats been bugging me for ages…

The text that says “Supporting Files” under the ZIP option on an image page doesn’t really seem to fit or explain things more clearly. Can we please have the ability to edit that text, or remove it completely, in the Symbio admin? I would much prefer to be able to write something like “eps & jpg” in there to explain the ZIP option. But maybe some would just rather remove it completely.

Would this be a hard change to implement Leo?

You’ve probably got bigger fish to fry at the moment, which i understand 🙂 Just a suggestion.

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Look forward to it, just noticed 3.3.2 is available – I’m already 3 versions behind! How did that happen!? 😉

Look forward to hearing whats changed.

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+1 changelog 🙂

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So, if I understand correctly, you would have Symbio create “sitemap.xml” which would suck in the data from Yoast’s index file, and also the data from Symbio’s image index file, and combine them together? The benefit being that all spiders could reference the data easily?

If so, sounds good.

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