How to Remove Date from Blogger URL?

Do you want to remove the date from Blogger post URL?

Do you want to make your blogger post URL looks professional just like the WordPress post URL?

If yes, then read this post in which I will share a step-by-step guide on How to remove date from Blogger blog post URL.

I will share a full detailed guide with screenshot on how to remove the date from Blogger post URL very easily.

And also, I will share some advantages and disadvantages you will face of removing date from Blogger URL.

So, stick with me with last to know more details.

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Introduction

Whenever you create a post on blogger, it contains month and year in its URL and this also increases the length of your blog post URL.

URL 1: https://yourblog.blogspot.com/2021/08/How-to-remove-date-from-blogger-url.html

But, when you create a post on WordPress, its URL seems completely different and does not contain any date or .html extension and thus look professional.

URL 2: https://yourblog.blogspot.com/How-to-remove-date-from-blogger-url/

Now, tell me which URL look professional and better.

URL 1: with date

URL 2: without date

What is your choice?

Second One, right?

Second URL is short and do not have date or .html extension and obviously easy to remember and also looks better.

Now, let's discuss what are the advantages and disadvantages of removing date from Blogger blog post URL.

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Advantages: How to Remove Date from Blogger URL?

You will get the following benefits by removing date from Blogger blog post URL.

Removing Date and .html extension from blogger blog post URL will make your content evergreen.
Your blog post URL will be short.
Short URL are easy to share and remember.
Visitors of your blog will not be able to know when the article was actually published.
Your post URL will look simple and professional.
Professional URL helps in better position of content in Search Engine result pages.
Removing date helps from blogger URL improve your on-page SEO.

These are the above-mentioned advantages you will get if you remove the month, year and .html extension from your blog post.

Now let see what are the disadvantages of removing date from blogger URL.

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Disadvantages: How to Remove Date from Blogger URL?

Now let’s discuss about its disadvantages.

There are many disadvantages of removing date from blogger URL and some of them are even critical and are not easy to solve.

Note that if you have just started blogging then it will be beneficial for you to remove the date from blogger URL.

But if you are an old blogger and have well established blog then you will face many problems.

If some of your articles are well positioned on the Search Engine Result page and then you change your blog post URL then your organic users will face 404 error (Page Not Found) due to change in your blog post permalink.

When Google spider bots will crawl your blog, they will get 404 error and thus it will affect your blog position as well as SEO.

To Solve these problems, you need to recreate your blog's sitemap and then you need to submit it to google to re-index which will almost take a month.

To Solve 404 error, you will need to redirect all your old post URL to the new URL.

Summarizing all the points you will face these problems:

Removing date from Blogger URL is only beneficial to new Bloggers.
You will encounter 404 error (Page not Found).
The Script is not supported by all templates.
Your Blog will lose huge traffic if you change your URL.
Your blog may get de-index.
Your Blog SEO will be affected.

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How to Remove Date from Blogger Post URL?

Now it’s time to discuss How to remove date from Blogger Post URL.

Well before you do it make sure to create a backup of your template.

Let’s dig it up.

Step 1: Sign in to your Blogger Account and chose your blog.

Step 2: Click on theme and then click on edit HTML.

Step 3: Click anywhere in the HTML and then use the keyboard shortcut ctrl + F to open search to find </head> tag.

Step 4: Copy the below code and paste in just above </head> tag then click on save.

  <script type='text/javascript'>

//<![CDATA[

// BloggerJS v0.3.1

// Copyright (c) 2017-2018 Kenny Cruz

// Licensed under the MIT License

var urlTotal,nextPageToken,postsDatePrefix=!1,accessOnly=!1,useApiV3=!1,apiKey="",blogId="",postsOrPages=["pages","posts"],jsonIndex=1,secondRequest=!0,feedPriority=0,amp="&amp;"[0];function urlVal(){var e=window.location.pathname,t=e.length;return".html"===e.substring(t-5)?0:t>1?1:2}function urlMod(){var e=window.location.pathname;"p"===e.substring(1,2)?(e=(e=e.substring(e.indexOf("/",1)+1)).substr(0,e.indexOf(".html")),history.replaceState(null,null,"../"+e)):(e=(e=postsDatePrefix?e.substring(1):e.substring(e.indexOf("/",7)+1)).substr(0,e.indexOf(".html")),history.replaceState(null,null,"../../"+e))}function urlSearch(e,t){var n=e+".html";t.forEach(function(e){-1!==e.search(n)&&(window.location=e)})}function urlManager(){var e=urlVal();0===e?accessOnly||urlMod():1===e?getJSON(postsOrPages[feedPriority],1):2===e&&(accessOnly||history.replaceState(null,null,"/"))}function getJSON(e,t){var n=document.createElement("script");if(useApiV3){var o="https://www.googleapis.com/blogger/v3/blogs/"+blogId+"/"+e+"?key="+apiKey+"#maxResults=500#fields=nextPageToken%2Citems(url)#callback=bloggerJSON";nextPageToken&&(o+="#pageToken="+nextPageToken),nextPageToken=void 0}else o=window.location.protocol+"//"+window.location.hostname+"/feeds/"+e+"/default?start-index="+t+"#max-results=150#orderby=published#alt=json-in-script#callback=bloggerJSON";o=o.replace(/#/g,amp),n.type="text/javascript",n.src=o,document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(n)}function bloggerJSON(e){var t=[];if(useApiV3||void 0===urlTotal&&(urlTotal=parseInt(e.feed.openSearch$totalResults.$t)),useApiV3){try{e.items.forEach(function(e,n){t.push(e.url)})}catch(e){}nextPageToken=e.nextPageToken}else try{e.feed.entry.forEach(function(n,o){var r=e.feed.entry[o];r.link.forEach(function(e,n){"alternate"===r.link[n].rel&&t.push(r.link[n].href)})})}catch(e){}urlSearch(window.location.pathname,t),urlTotal>150?(jsonIndex+=150,urlTotal-=150,getJSON(postsOrPages[feedPriority],jsonIndex)):nextPageToken?getJSON(postsOrPages[feedPriority]):secondRequest&&(nextPageToken=void 0,urlTotal=void 0,jsonIndex=1,secondRequest=!1,0===feedPriority?(feedPriority=1,getJSON("posts",1)):1===feedPriority&&(feedPriority=0,getJSON("pages",1)))}function bloggerJS(e){e&&(feedPriority=e),urlManager()}bloggerJS();

//]]>

</script>

That’s it.

You have successfully removed the date from blogger URL.

Frequent Asked Questions:

1. How do I remove the date and time from my blogger post URL?

To Remove date and time from blogger post URL you just need to the follow these steps. <link here>

2. Is it possible to remove date from Blogger Permalink?

Yes, it is very easy to remove date from blogger post permalink, you can do it very easily just by putting the script in your template. I have discussed about this above with step by step method.

3. Can I make my content evergreen by removing published date?

No, you cannot make your content evergreen just by removing published date. Search Engines have their own parameters to decide which content is relevant to show on search result page. Search Engine may not treat your blog post as evergreen just by removing date.

4. Can you change the order of the posts on Blogger?

The posts in Blogger are ordered in chronological order. So, if you want to change the order of the posts, you will have to change the dates and/or time of the posts.

5. Should I remove date from Blogger Post URL?

You can remove date from Blogger Post URL if you are new blogger but I will recommend not to remove the date.

Why?

Because it will create many troubles for you and your blog may lose organic traffic, users will get 404 error. If your blog is new and just making it for personal use then you can remove date from blogger permalink. If you are creating a professional blog on Blogger and have plans to earn money from it then you should keep date on blog post URL.

6. How do I change the date on Blogger?

Choose the post that you would like to change and click Edit.Click Post Settings.Go over to Published On.Click Post Date and Time.Change the date to whatever you would like.Click Update. That’s it.

I hope this article was helpful to. Below are some Frequent asked questions do check it out.

If you have any suggestion or thoughts do let me know in the comment section. Enjoy!

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