Matan · GEO · Freshness
Modified date (GEO)
dateModified or Last-Modified shows the document was maintained.
Pass condition in our engine: dateModified in schema or a Last-Modified header is present.
This GEO check is part of SEO-GEO scoring 2.2.1, last updated 2026-09-18. About 90 percent of the evaluation runs on the HTML we crawl, so you can verify the same pass condition with a free report.
1. Problem description
Engines discount obviously stale medical and pricing content. A Last-Modified header from the CDN that changes every hit is noisy; prefer an editorial dateModified you control.
2. Most common causes
- Articles never updated after publish.
- The CMS does not expose modified dates.
3. How to fix it
- Set dateModified when you meaningfully update the article.
- Optionally send an honest Last-Modified header.
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