Goal
- Provide date of publication to search engines and indexing tools.
- Improving the integration of content by search engines and indexing tools.
- Improve the way content is taken into account by search engines and indexing tools.
Implementation
Use the HTML element element to tag the publication and update dates of content displayed on the site, and its datetime attribute to indicate these in the standard format required by the HTML5 specification,
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Control
Check that each date of publication or content update shown on the site is tagged with the time HTML element, with a datetime attribute indicating the date in the standard format required by the HTML5 specification.
Business application and benefits
The rules should be applied to your projects from the design phase through to post-implementation , and they should be understood by all professionals with web and customer experience (CX) responsibilities: from strategy to operations, marketers to project managers, and editorial to technical staff. The benefits of using this ruleset are numerous, including improving customer satisfaction, web performance, and e-commerce, and expanding your client base, while also decreasing your errors and costs.
The objective of these rules and the Opquast community mission is ‘making the web better’ for your customers and for everyone! Opquast rules cover the key major areas of risk that can negatively affect website users such as privacy, ecodesign, accessibility and security.
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