How to Remove Date from Blogger Post URL

Hi to all, here I am going to tell you all about how to remove date from blogger post URL easily in just few minutes.

If you remove the date from post, it will provide clean URL or Permalink

We all know that in blogger you can see date in URL or Permalink and there is no way to remove the date from blogger dashboard and it looks unattractive and increase the length of the URL.

Read the below provided steps carefully and add it to your blogger website theme code and if you miss any steps then you will definitely get error while saving the code, so read the article till end.

Advantages of Removing Date from Blogger post URL

1. By removing the date, URL becomes short in length.

2. And it shows your post a professional look.

3. It will hide the publishing date from the post URL.

4. The URL becomes easy to remember.

Disadvantages of Removing Date from Blogger Post URL

There are so many disadvantages of removing the date from blogger post URL as it effect the Search Engine Optimization of your blog.

The main thing is google recognize any content by using URL and if it is changed then google need to re crawl your post and re index, due to this your post ranking will be effected.

But the effect is short term i.e. the old links will redirect to the new URL structure and in the end search engines will inspect the new URL structure and also your old URL will also work.

And it is not recommend for the old websites with so many blog posts indexed in the google search, but new websites can use this trick to remove the date from the blog post URL.

Steps to Remove Date from Blogger Post URL

Step-1: First of all you need to login to your blogger website dashboard by using your login credentials.

Step-2: Now click on Theme Section -> Click on Arrow Icon -> Click on Back up -> Click on Download Theme.

Step-3: Now again click on Theme -> Click on Arrow Icon -> Click on Edit HTML -> Theme Editor.

Step-4: Now you need to copy the below provided JavaScript code.

<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>
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Step-5: Paste the copied JavaScript code just below header tag or </head> tag.

Step-6: Click on save button.

Step-7: After clicking save button, it will show a message i.e. processing and after you will see a message i.e. Updated Successfully

Step-8: Now you have successfully removed date from blogger post URL.

Note:

If you don't want to effect your website SEO then you can redirect URL manually by visiting your blogger website settings -> Errors and Redirects -> Custom Redirects.

And also there is one error i.e. ?m=1 with the blogger post URL , when we open website in mobiles.

How to fix ?m=1 problem in blogger website

Conclusion

I hope that you have understood about how to remove date from blogger post URL easily in just few minutes.