Google’s John Mueller stated it solely is smart to replace the date on a bit of content material or article whenever you both “write one thing new or considerably change one thing current.” He stated this on Twitter and it goes together with earlier recommendation John has given earlier than.

John stated this on Twitter:

If you write one thing new, or siginificantly change one thing current, then change the date. Altering the date with out doing the rest is simply noise & ineffective.

— 🐄 John 🐄 (@JohnMu) February 5, 2022

John has stated earlier than that you just need not change dates of evergreen content material. However simply validating the outdated content material remains to be legit doesn’t deem an up to date date is required. After all, by no means pretend dates – that’s an outdated trick that Google is on to.

Discussion board dialogue at Twitter.