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Thanks. It's kind of weird what's happening because my category pages are showing up with the new content faster than the actual article.

I'm not 'manipulating' the date - I'm just not including it. The issue with 'recycling old articles' is that I am updating articles regularly with new information - to add a new article isn't good for the site because it's 90% repetition. Then, when I update them, I re-post them because what's new is important for readers, followers etc, to see. What do you think?

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Thanks. Is that an automatic thing if I meet the guidelines? Cant see how to sign up for it..

I had until a few months ago included the original post date of a new blog post on the site. I then removed it and none of my results in Google now include the blog post date, although for some (for articles written about events) Google includes the date of the event where you would usually see the post date. Since I did this, it seems like new blog posts are taking longer to rank on Google, some results are ranking well, and others declined relative to what I would have previously expected.

What's the best thing to be doing? To include a date (considering a lot of my content is not time-relevant) or to keep it as it is now?

The second thing, is I often go through and update my articles with new information and re-post it in my rss feed etc - ie the date becomes new again. How does Google treat this?

Any ideas or comments would be great!

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Thanks.

I'm going to try to set up the author profiles and see what happens with that. I gain something from most of the people sharing my content (not as much as I lose from them ranking above me) so I'd rather just find a way to get myself above them 9 times out of 10 and that seems like a great option. Hopefully that will reduce any impact of Panda changes?

Ok. Thanks... you think this would make a big impact in general with search engine results?

Headshot and real persons name?

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But is there a way to set it so that it wont show my name/picture?

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Can I do author profile without using my name? I have stuff written by other people/don't include my name on the site.

It must look different where you are. I get the exact match domain, haaretz.com, then a couple of copies of mine, and then mine.

I'll look at the author profile.

Thanks. I'm using Wordpress, what would you suggest?

Thanks for the reply. The site url is www.touristisrael.com and an example is if you Google:

"Chris Cornell in Israel" or

"Chris Cornell in Tel Aviv"

Do you mean author profiles on Google +?

A number of sites are copying - either 100% word for word, paragraphs, or sentences of my content and are ranking higher.

Some sites are doing this with permission/properly and are linking back to my article Others are not linking back or giving credit.

Some of these sites, in some cases are ranking higher than me in Google results.

What can I do?