📅 Content Freshness Check
Check if your page has outdated year references, stale meta timestamps, or old sitemap lastmod — find content that needs refreshing.
📖 What can this tool do?
Freshness is a signal AI weighs when choosing what to cite. A page claiming ‘2024 best practices’ with a last-modified date from 2022 is at a disadvantage. This tool scans year references, meta timestamps, and staleness indicators to surface content that needs refreshing.
See Make AI Speak for You: The Definitive Guide to GEO, Strategy 06 & Strategy 29
❓ FAQ: GEO Impact
How much does freshness matter?
Timestamped data helps AI judge timeliness. Undated or outdated data increases the chance AI skips your content for a fresher source.
Does every old date need updating?
Not necessarily. Historical data as reference is fine. What matters is whether current conclusions are based on current information.
How do I signal freshness to AI?
Three moves: Timestamp your data explicitly. Update dateModified in Schema markup. Make sure sitemap lastmod reflects the actual update date.
