Updating a Business Blog Article - Old or New Published Date

[Kdruckenbrod]

There are a few business blogs that I'm currently updating - include more details, information, case studies, statistics etc. The blog was originally published in September of 2016. Once I make the changes, do I keep the same original date or do I change the date to the day that i've uploaded the new information?

Example:
Original Published date: September 2016
Updated Blog: June 2017.

What date should the blog display?

Thank you.

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

You probably want the new date to show up. Make sure you're using a WordPress plugin to handle all the SEO aspects of this, Yoast will probably save you most of the time.

[Joe_Stoffel]

Yep! Here is an article that can help you out with this: http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/display-the-last-updated-date-of-your-posts-in-wordpress/

[Kdruckenbrod]

The blog platform is Wordpress. Would this work?

[Joe_Stoffel]

Hi there,

You should include both the original publish date and the last modified/last updated date. Be sure the <lastmod< span="">> dates are updated in the XML sitemap as well.</lastmod<>

Hope that helps!