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

John mentioned this on Twitter:

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

— 🐄 John 🐄 (@JohnMu) February 5, 2022

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 However simply validating the outdated content material continues to be legit doesn’t deem an up to date date is required. After all, by no means faux dates – that’s an outdated trick that Google is on to.

Discussion board dialogue at Twitter.