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AI retrieval / date signals
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The source says ChatGPT may pass a relevancy time parameter to web search and can infer freshness from dates visible on the page.
What should an SEO or AI visibility operator inspect first?
The source says ChatGPT may pass a relevancy time parameter to web search and can infer freshness from dates visible on the page.
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The source says ChatGPT may pass a relevancy time parameter to web search and can infer freshness from dates visible on the page.
If you've been following GEO advice at all, you've probably heard that large language models love fresh content. You need to update your content constantly, so ChatGPT will cite it. And there is some truth to this, but it's much more nuanced than people typically present it...
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ChatGPT doesn't know if your content is fresh. It just looks for a date on the page...
If you've been following GEO advice at all, you've probably heard that large language models love fresh content. You need to update your content constantly, so ChatGPT will cite it. And there is some truth to this, but it's much more nuanced than people typically present it...
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If you've been following GEO advice at all, you've probably heard that large language models love fresh content. You need to update your content constantly, so ChatGPT will cite it.
And there is some truth to this, but it's much more nuanced than people typically present it. You may have heard stats like 70% of the content that ChatGPT sites was updated in the last 12 months.
And that is true, but just consider that most of the content people are interested in has probably been updated in the last 12 months. I think it's also important to consider that 30% of all the content ChatGPT sites has not been updated at all in the last year.
Also, how does a large language model know that content is fresh? Let's talk about that and when you should actually care.
My friend Dave Davies recently shared something really interesting in Marie Haynes search bar. By inspecting the page source code while using ChatGPT.
He found that ChatGPT actually passes a relevancy parameter to the web tool whenever it performs a search...
se. I do recommend updating important pieces of content once per year, including the year in the title.
For your most important pages, you might consider updating them every three months. However, don't fall into the trap of thinking that your pages need to be recently updated to be cited by large language models.
Some information really just doesn't change that often, and there's plenty of pages that are years old to get cited frequently. One of the biggest misnomers is Reddit.
When people see how frequently large language models site Reddit, they typically start logging onto Reddit and posting on recent threads. And there's nothing wrong with this.
I think being active on Reddit is worth it for its own sake. But if you look at the threads that large language models are actually citing from Reddit, almost all of them are more than six months old, and most of them are more than one year old.
You'll have a much bigger impact on a large English model by posting to the 20 most cited threads than you will by posting 2,000 comments on brand new threads. This was the No.
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