Content freshness signals

Why it matters

Editorial pages can publish machine-readable modification and publication dates. This checkpoint validates those values only after the page is identified as editorial content.

How to fix it

Publish machine-readable publication and modification dates on editorial pages.

1. Add datePublished and dateModified to the Article JSON-LD of each editorial page.

   {
     "@context": "https://schema.org",
     "@type": "Article",
     "datePublished": "2026-09-01",
     "dateModified": "2026-10-01"
   }

2. Add the Open Graph tag article:modified_time with the same date.

   <meta property="article:modified_time" content="2026-10-01T09:00:00Z">

3. Update dateModified only when the content changes.

Verify

Run a new scan for this checkpoint: