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aeo.article-dates-missing

WarningAEO audit

Article structured data lacks datePublished (warning) or dateModified (info), which tell answer engines how fresh the content is.

What to change

Add datePublished and dateModified in ISO 8601 (2026-03-14T09:30:00+01:00), and update dateModified when the content changes materially.

The documentation on developers.google.com

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. A warning is a problem that costs a page ranking, clicks or citations. Each finding takes 5 points 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-dates-missing

Or from an assistant, with the MCP tool seo_aeo_audit:

{
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "rules": [
    "aeo.article-dates-missing"
  ]
}

To leave it out of an audit, pass --disable aeo.article-dates-missing on the command, or disableRules: ["aeo.article-dates-missing"] to a tool.

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