I was seeing some people talking about updating the date on pages and blog posts (probably mostly the latter) when you update the content. I’m using a child theme and Divi, and my problem, for lack of a better word, is that while my blog posts do show the date stamp on the page when it renders, but I’m unsure how to update the date as an additional indicator that it’s been updated. If I change the published date, as my Permalinks setting is \[URL\]/day/month/year/, I then have to set up a redirect as the URL will change.
Somehow I have a feeling that there must be a “proper” way to indicate that the content has been updates, even if google may already know, for example, as googlebot scrapes my content every day. But from an SEO perspective, I keep hearing people talking about updating the date when you update old content, but having hundreds or more 301 redirects seems a bit crazy.
Does anyone have any suggestions for something I may be missing in order to accomplish this? Or do people really simply change the published data and set up a redirect for their content, no matter how many blog posts one may have? Thanks for any help.
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https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_the_modified_date/
You don’t do it manually. You just edit the post and if the theme developer has incorporated the option to show the updated date then the updated date is shown in the front end. For seo you can use the proper schema. I believe is the dateModified property of the Article property.
And also you can use the proper meta tags on the post page. For example
<meta property=”article:modified_time” content=”2024-03-16″>