: How to tell google a blog article has been updated? The URL of my posts has the publication date and slugged title, but how can I best show google search users that an article has been updated

@Kevin317

In your XML sitemap you can set the lastmod value to be the date you updated it

<url>
<loc>http://www.example.com/blog/article-is-updated</loc>
<lastmod>2013-10-18</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.8</priority>




If your goal is to also notify users you can do what you suggested yourself and put the last updated date on the page. If you added/removed/or changed critical content you could do what news sites do and add a section at the top or bottom of the article with the update date and what changed.

Regardless of whether or not you do these things those updated pages will eventually be crawled again and the new content will be found. This is typically done at a preset schedule Google has and doing the above probably will not affect when those pages are crawled again.

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