Title: Historic Website
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Historic Website

 *  Resolved [stemie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stemie/)
 * (@stemie)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/historic-website/)
 * Hi Im creating an historic website with post and stories from the past – going
   back to the sixties.
 * I am dating my posts to the actual year. So for example I have a post from 1974
   and I publish it as this date.
 * This is useful for ordering my content but how would this affect my SEO cause
   these posts seem really old?
 * What work around could I use, would it be better to use custom fileds as the 
   historic date and publish the posts to the current date?
 * I fear for messing with seo with the method im using currently.

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 *  [Krishna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/1nexus/)
 * (@1nexus)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/historic-website/#post-2858341)
 * Whatever date you may choose for publishing, search engines will consider only
   your actual date of publishing. So, SEO will be as for any other site and your
   ranking, SERP, indexing, etc. will depend on your content and several other factors
   of SE algorithms.
 *  Thread Starter [stemie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stemie/)
 * (@stemie)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/historic-website/#post-2858357)
 * Thanks Krishna, will they penalise for the fact that I am back dating posts by
   so many years
 * I understand they can see when it was actually posted (not just what I set it
   as) but I just want to make sure I’m not penalising the site.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/historic-website/#post-2858365)
 * > would it be better to use custom fileds as the historic date and publish the
   > posts to the current date?
 * Yes.
 *  Thread Starter [stemie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stemie/)
 * (@stemie)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/historic-website/#post-2858373)
 * Thanks for your help peeps.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [stemie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stemie/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/historic-website/#post-2858373)
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