Most content has dateModified older than 18 months
dateModified is the schema field recording when a page was last substantively edited. This check looked across your articles and blog posts and found that most of them carry a dateModified more than 18 months old, meaning the bulk of your content hasn't been meaningfully touched in over a year and a half.
Why this matters
Search systems may give weight to freshness for time-sensitive queries, and a page that is kept current is more likely to be accurate. Content that has not been reviewed for a long time can look dated to readers and may be outranked by more recently maintained pages, though this varies by topic. Evergreen content may not need frequent edits.
How to fix it
Your content team should treat this as an ongoing quarterly task. Review your top-traffic content, update statistics, add new examples, fix any broken links, and update dateModified honestly whenever the edit is substantive enough to matter, rather than bumping the date without a real change behind it.
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