Keep Your Site Looking Fresh Even if You Don’t Update … for Years!
Getting the following message from a reader was definitely one of those “Uh Oh” moments.
Hi. Just to let you know that your homepage of 101date.com says “What’s hot in 2006“. I’m sure 2006 was a very hot year, but what’s the temperature going to be like in 2009? – that’s what I want to know.
I’m half way through your affiliate book – Fan-Bloody-Tastic, I cannot put it down.
Anyway, must fly, it’s been a pleasure.
Ian.
Thank goodness for readers like Ian!!!
Placing dates on your site is a VERY effective technique for improving sales conversions, unless those dates happen to be very, VERY old.
So, I corrected the faux pas immediately, and made it look like this:
Of course, that will be all well and good until 2010 rolls along and I forget again to update the text.
There is a fix however. Embed a date script, just as you would use in the footers of your sites to create the Copyright © (current year) text.
Here’s the script:
<script language=”JavaScript”><!– Begin
var time=new Date();
var year=time.getYear();
if ((navigator.appName == “Microsoft Internet Explorer”) && (year < 2000))
year=”19″ + year;
if (navigator.appName == “Netscape”)
year=1900 + year;
document.write(year + “</left>”);
// End –>
</script>
So, there… now you can plan to party hearty on New Year’s Eve without having to worry about changing all those dates at midnight. 
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I guess that’s how you got your search engine rankings really decent , huh Ros? (smile)
So that’s how you do it. Anyway, thanks for the info! =)
Thanks a lot for sharing this. Now, I know what I’ll do so I can still keep my site looking fresh even if I don’t update it. I am always busy doing other things so I forget to update my site most of the time.
I wish I used this from the start. Now I have many websites i need to change for the next year and I also have to manually change the Copright 2009 note in the footer of every site. Thanks for this code tho, will make my life easier in 2011 at least:)
Thanks for the info. I’ll be sure to use it.
Good information and suggestion.
Thanks Ros. I copied the code to use on my sites.
Now, since I am dumber than a box of rocks about this sort of thing, where in the HTML coding would it be pasted? Does it go in the of the code? Will it automatically change all days on the page? If the page is all CSS coding, where would it get pasted, and then would it change the dates on all pages?
Sorry, I have learned a lot of things, but scripts isn’t one of them.
Thanks again.
Hi June,
Simple! Just stick it in wherever you want the date, i.e. look at the bottom of this page. I just put it into the footer.php beside the text ‘Copyright © NetProfitsToday.com’.
Hope that helps!
Cheers,
Ros
Thanks Ros. I really appreciate you taking the time to answer.
Great info you’ve shared. Thanks a lot for sharing this.
Thank you for that info. I’m sure it will be useful once I have my website up. Incidentally, can you recommend a reliable off-the-shelf dating software? All of the providers I looked into always has somebody badmouthing their product as not working or the sellers being scammers. Is there a dating software that really works? I hope somebody can help… thanks a lot.
Thanks for the post..I’ve been a bloggers for the past 2 years that’s why some of my post are very old..
Hi Rosalind
Its easy to see that your genuine as well as good natured from what i’ve read on your site. I was also checking out your 101date site and liked the “All Sites” page. May i ask how you are able to create the look of the list. Did the look come with the theme or did you use a script?
Ros,
Nice bit of JavaScript.
But .
Your comment, “…just as you would use in the footers of your sites to create the Copyright (c) (current year) text,” and one comment here don’t show a clear understanding of copyright dates and are somewhat misleading.
Copyright date is the _original date of creation_, not the current date. You actually do yourself a disservice by making the copyright date the current year … unless, of course, you created or published {some thing or concept} in the current year .
The copyright date, in effect, shows length of ownership of the copyright.
Thanks for the nugget of information.
But is there a script to update the day and the month as well as the year?
To follow up on what Barney said, alternatively, you could put (c) 2002 – 2010 Netprofitstoday.com , for example. But thanks for the javascript!