How To Remove Date From Blogger Post URL

In this article, I will show you how you can remove date from the blogger post URL.

As we know Blogger has included the date in the Permalink of the Blog post URL and there is no way to remove this using the dashboard. And it looks ugly and increases the URL length.

So, you can make your Permalink structure simple by removing the date from the Blogger post URL. So, follow the steps given below.

Benefits Of Removing Date Form Blogger Post URL

There are several benefits that you get after removing the Date from the Post URL of Blogger.

• It helps keep the URL length short
• Gives your blog post a professional look
• Hides the published date from the Users
• Easy to Remember URL structure

Disadvantages of removing date from Blogger URL

There are some disadvantages of removing it from post URLs as it affects the SEO performance of the existing well-established blogs.

This is because Google identifies a piece of content using the URL and if it changes then Google has to recrawl the page and reindex it in search engine results pages (SERPs). So you may lose some ranking positions in this process.

But the effect is temporary as the old links will redirect to the new URL structure and eventually search engines will consider the new URL. And your Old internal links will still work.

So, it is not recommended for Old sites with many blog posts indexed in Google, but new websites can use this method to remove the date from the Blogger URL.

Note: Before proceeding with the steps, I recommend you to take a full backup of your theme code, So, incase if you want the previous version then you can restore that easily.

Copy the below code and paste it below the head tag as shown in the above image.

<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="&"[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>

Make sure to save the theme code. Now every time you open any of your Blog posts, you will notice that the date in the URL is gone.

Now you know how to remove the date from the Blogger post URL.

There is also the ?m=1 issue with the Blogger URL when we open a website from mobile devices.

Learn how to remove ?m=1 from the URL of the Blogger website.

If you have any doubts regarding this, feel free to ask me in the comment section. You can follow our YouTube channel for more Blogging tips.

Disclaimer: I don’t recommend removing the date from the Blogger post URL especially from an old site. You can use it at your own risk on new websites.