Updating 'last_updated' on WordPress posts

693840 · Jan 12, 2021

I see on many affiliate sites that their 'last updated' is always within the last couple of days, while they have thousands of posts.
It looks like they are just throwing a query in every few days that does this, without actually changing content.

Is this of any use for rankings, if you don't actually add fresh content?

Dopious · Jan 12, 2021

Something like this would do what you want: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-auto-republish/ Google loves updated content .. ;-)

amandine · Jan 12, 2021

Here is the wordpress way to trigger the last_update field:

PHP:

wp_update_post( array( 'ID' => (int)$postId ) );

693840 · Jan 12, 2021

RoiBox said:
Something like this would do what you want: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-auto-republish/ Google loves updated content .. ;-)

Very nice, thanks!

Do you happen to know this:
Is this of any use for rankings, if you don't actually add fresh content?

Dopious · Jan 12, 2021

Blackhat Lifter said:
Very nice, thanks!

Do you happen to know this:
Is this of any use for rankings, if you don't actually add fresh content?

Have not really tried it myself yet, had it in my bookmarks to try .. =) .. Here is another one: https://wordpress.org/plugins/republish-old-posts/

RDLT · Jan 12, 2021

RoiBox said:
Something like this would do what you want: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-auto-republish/ Google loves updated content .. ;-)

Are you sure mate? I’ve seen tech troubleshooting and programming tutorials from like 2011 ranking for high comp/voulme kws. Totally obsolete, practically irrelevant and still on the first page?

Dopious · Jan 12, 2021

RDLT said:
Are you sure mate? I’ve seen tech troubleshooting and programming tutorials from like 2011 ranking for high comp/voulme kws. Totally obsolete, practically irrelevant and still on the first page?

As I wrote above "Have not really tried it myself yet, had it in my bookmarks to try .. =) " ...

praetserge · Jan 13, 2021

I sometimes, do very minor updates but not very sure what benefits it brings to rankings.
The reason I do it... is because google shows 'last modified' date in search results and I don't want searchers to think that my content is outdated.
Would be interesting to hear from some people who tried and tested it.

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