aeo.article-date-not-visible

What to change

A finding of this rule on a page carries the exact edits for that page: the markup it quotes, and what to write instead.

When it runs

Runs on every AEO audit: of a page, a crawl, a build directory or HTML. Info is a best practice: worth doing, rarely urgent, and --no-info leaves it out. Each finding takes 1 point off the page's score.

The severity here is the rule's usual one: a finding can be raised or lowered when the page gives a reason.

Run it, or skip it

Check a page for this rule alone, after a fix for instance:

npx @rivi-software/agentic-seo-check aeo https://example.com --rule aeo.article-date-not-visible

Or from an assistant, with the MCP tool seo_aeo_audit:

{
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "rules": [
    "aeo.article-date-not-visible"
  ]
}

To leave it out of an audit, pass --disable aeo.article-date-not-visible on the command, or disableRules: ["aeo.article-date-not-visible"] to a tool.

• Warningaeo.schema-text-not-visibleFAQPage, QAPage or HowTo structured data holds questions, answers or steps that are not in the page's HTML text.
• Warningaeo.article-author-missingArticle structured data names no author.
• Infoaeo.article-author-incompleteThe article's author is a bare name, without a url or sameAs that identifies the person.
• Warningaeo.article-dates-missingArticle structured data lacks datePublished (warning) or dateModified (info), which tell answer engines how fresh the content is.
• Infoaeo.organization-missingThe home page has no Organization (or Person) structured data.
• Infoaeo.entity-same-as-missingOrganization or Person structured data has no sameAs links to the entity's profiles elsewhere.
• Warningaeo.robots-txt-unreachablerobots.txt answers a server error or does not answer, and crawlers treat that as "crawl nothing" (RFC 9309).
• Erroraeo.robots-blocks-search-crawlerrobots.txt blocks a search crawler whose index AI answers draw on: Googlebot (AI Overviews, AI Mode), Bingbot (Copilot) or Applebot (Siri, Spotlight).