SEO Penalties based on Copyright Info.

[artistri]

This is something i've never heard up until today, but does google penalise a website for having a backdated copright mark on the footer?

I.e. our site has copyright 2001 at the footer and i was led to believe that this will incur a penally for the site.

Thoughts?

[getvisible]

no .......................

[artistri]

Great, what i thought.

That makes the SEO sales call i had from an 'expert' the crappest ever!

[DioBach]

Originally Posted by artistri Great, what i thought. That makes the SEO sales call i had from an 'expert' the crappest ever!

If the SEO company is calling you, you can pretty much guarantee they'll be crap anyway!

[tbp]

I have actually heard this before, the "logic" being that if you have a copyright 2001 for example Google think that your site isn't being updated.

I don't believe this is true though, and haven't seen any evidence of it in my experience.

The easiest thing is just to have copyright 2001 - 2008 for example. I think it looks good to have the original date as it shows you've been established for a long time which inspires confidence.

If your pages are dynamic, you can use the PHP date command for example to print the latest year automatically. I do it on all my sites now, so it automatically updates each year and theres no having to go through all my sites changing it.

I keep my site copyright year updated for appearance though, rather than for Google. I can't see that you would be penalised for it.

[KirstyM]

Originally Posted by artistri Great, what i thought. That makes the SEO sales call i had from an 'expert' the crappest ever!

Pfftt.... just hang up the next time Kev, I used to get them too at Greenfingers. Cheeky, lying, sods!

[Brendon]

>> our site has copyright 2001 at the footer and i was led to believe that this will incur a penally for the site.

A ridiculous assertion. Google look at a lot of time sensitive data, it's true, but your copyright notice is unlikely to be one of them

[bills2big.com]

Originally Posted by DioBach If the SEO company is calling you, you can pretty much guarantee they'll be crap anyway!

Yeah I agree..

[Leopard]

Exactly.. good SEO companies dont have time for that sort of thing.

This is one of the worst SEO myths I've ever heard.. I see sites with copyright 1998 and they're ranking #1 !

[HarveyJ]

If this were the case, Microsoft, and their early 90s copyrights would have them ranked pretty low...