Google: Dates In URLs Are Fine

John Mueller and the Google webmaster account (probably also John Mueller) said that having the date in your URL is fine. In fact, many publishers do just that because having a unique ID in the URL use to be a requirement for Google News.

This was posted twice on Twitter, here are those tweets:

Having a date in the URL is fine! #AskGoogleWebmasters

— Google Webmasters (@googlewmc) September 23, 2019

Having a date in the URL is fine.

— 🍌 John 🍌 (@JohnMu) September 23, 2019

Yea, it seems John manages both these accounts.

Again, dates in URLs are not a bad thing. Google doesn't really care if you have them or not.

Forum discussion at Twitter.