Content Update
In one sentence
Periodically revising published material so it stays accurate and current.
Analogy Mental model
A software release. Bugs fixed, features added, interface cleaned up, version number bumped.
In practice What you actually do
Audit quarterly: are the statistics from an old year, are the links dead, has the field moved, does the title carry a stale date. Change the content rather than the timestamp, and say at the top when it was revised and what changed.
Where people get burned Pitfalls
Bumping the date without touching the body is the oldest form of pretending and it is compared against the previous version. Readers who remember the old article notice first.
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