Is it worth removing date from Blog Posts / Articles

[Modi]

Wondering, is it worth to remove date from articles from seo perspective. Am sure, Google search algorithm would like demote a post written a year back, as against an article on the same post (unless a year old post has very strong Authoritative links)

May be it can turn out a bad user experience of removing dates, but if can hide date using Javascripts so as to show it as image to user and hide it from search engines, is it a good idea !!

[Modi]

Very true. Thanks for sharing thoughts on it !!

[IvanC]

As a rule of thumb I don't date content that is evergreen because the date is irrelevant to the content, however, if the blog contains time sensitive material such as news articles then the time-stamp becomes that much relevant.

Keep in mind that issues may occur if you deem your content "evergreen" when its actually not.  For instance, you may publish a Photoshop tutorial which you think is evergreen, however; in order to keep it current, you have to update this content piece every time Adobe comes up with a new version of Photoshop.  If that's the case then your content is not truly "evergreen."  The same applies to Wordpress tutorials and such.