Why this dimension exists
Dated content is deprioritised in generated answers, and an undated page gives an engine nothing to reason about.
Why it carries 5%
Low to moderate: a real but secondary signal.
The rules it is scored by
Each rule is a single question the scanner asks about a page. Passing one adds its share of this dimension; failing it takes that share away. Every rule links to what it looks for and what evidence passes it.
- A machine-readable date is found in dateModified, datePublished or article:modified_time. Within 12 months is a full pass; older is a partial pass. If only the HTTP Last-Modified header carries a date, that is a partial pass.3.0%
- The current calendar year appears in the visible body text.2.0%
What this dimension cannot tell you
A single-URL scan reads one page. It cannot see the rest of the site, it cannot see how a model behaves over time, and it cannot see whether the page is actually cited for the queries that matter. Those are the parts of the picture a score of this kind is blind to, and they are listed in full on the methodology page rather than implied here.