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One thing that search engines really suck with is the date when a website was created. You know the problem: You search for some CSS or JavaScript problem and Google returns a ton of results from 2002 explaining how to fix the problem in IE 5.5 and Netscape 4.6 while the helpful articles are buried on Page 3.
Anyway, I just wonder if there is a standardized or at least generally accepted tag or meta tag that I can put on my own pages to indicate the date they were created?
Not that it helps filtering out the old crap out of search results (especially since the people at #1 with their 2002 articles have zero incentive to change), but I'd just like to do my part :P
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If you want to find out whether a given page is using meta tags, just right-click anywhere on the page and select “View Page Source.” A new tab will open in Chrome (in Firefox, it'll be a pop-up window). The part at the top, or “head” of the page, is where the meta tags would be.
Meta tags are snippets of code that tell search engines important information about your web page, such as how they should display it in search results. They also tell web browsers how to display it to visitors. Every web page has meta tags, but they're only visible in the HTML code.
If you want to add a meta tag to your website, search for instructions about modifying the <head> of your page on your CMS (for example, search for "wix add meta tags"). Make sure that every page on your site has a meta description. Create unique descriptions for each page on your site.
Search engines such as Google use metadata from meta tags to understand additional information about the webpage. They can use this information for ranking purposes, to display snippets in search results, and sometimes they can ignore meta tags. Example of meta tags include the <title> and <description> elements.
There have been a few WHATWG Meta Extension proposals, referenced in the HTML5 specification which could cater for the creation date of a page.
"Accepted" Proposalsdcterms.available - The date the resource became available.dcterms.created - The creation date of the resource.dcterms.dateAccepted - The date the resource was accepted.dcterms.submitted - The date the resource was submitted.dcterms.issued - The publication date of a resource.
Related "Accepted" Proposalsdcterms.modified - The modification date of a resourcedcterms.valid - The validity of the resource.
There are a couple of "incomplete proposals" which haven't been accepted due to a lack of documentation (such as created).
I don't believe Hangy's answer of dc.date (now dcterms.date) would be relevant here as, as far as I'm lead to believe, the date of this is the date associated with the resource. For example, if the resource was a discussion about the Battle of Hastings in 1066, the dcterms.date could be set to 1066. The same could also be said for icas.datetime.
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