Measuring and Maintaining Content Freshness
Track how current your content is and ensure AI systems have access to your latest information.
Overview
Content freshness measures how recently your content has been updated. Fresh content signals to AI systems that your information is current and reliable.
Why It Matters
AI systems often prefer fresh content for time-sensitive queries. Stale content can lead to AI providing outdated information about your brand.
How to Measure
Track average age of content across your site
Monitor pages without recent updates
Measure update frequency by content type
Compare freshness against competitors
Benchmarks
Excellent: Key pages updated monthly
Good: Quarterly updates on important content
Average: Annual content review
Poor: Content over 2 years without updates
Improvement Strategies
Create content refresh calendar
Add dateModified to all pages
Prioritize high-traffic pages for updates
Build evergreen content that ages well
Recommended Tools
Content audit spreadsheets
CMS with last-modified tracking
Site crawlers for date detection
Content calendar tools
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