Content freshness signals present
Your pages carry no recent last-updated date. AI assistants prefer recent content, and yours reads as stale.
What this means
Passing: Your pages show fresh last-updated dates. AI assistants treat your content as current.
Partial: Some pages have last-updated dates that are very old — or dated in the future, which Google tells publishers not to do. Set dateModified to when the page actually changed.
Needs work: Your pages carry no recent last-updated date. AI assistants prefer recent content, and yours reads as stale.
Keep dateModified fresh
AI assistants prefer recently updated sources: this check counts a page as fresh for 30 days after its dateModified, and stops crediting it past six months. Set dateModified accurately on Article/BlogPosting entries — and never to a future date, which Google's publication-dates guidance forbids.
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Full guide
Step-by-step for your platform, with why AI engines read it and how to confirm it worked: Visible 'Last updated' date.