Maximize your visibility with tips from Google's John Mueller and Gary Illyes on the proper use of lastmod tags and separate sitemaps.
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Google Search Advocate John Mueller and Analyst Gary Illyes share SEO tips for news publishers during a recent office-hours Q&A recording.
Taking turns answering questions, Mueller addresses the correct use of the lastmod tag, while Illyes discusses the benefits of separate sitemaps.
When To Use The Lastmod Tag?
In an XML sitemap file, lastmod is a tag that stores information about the last time a webpage was modified.
Its intended use is to help search engines track and index significant changes to webpages.
Google provides guidelines for using the lastmod tag, which could be used to alter search snippets.
The presence of the lastmod tag may prompt Googlebot to change the publication date in search results, making the content appear more recent and more attractive to click on.
As a result, there may be an inclination to use the lastmod tag even for minor changes to an article so that it appears as if it was recently published.
A news publisher asks whether they should use the lastmod tag to indicate the date of the latest article update or the date of the most recent comment.
Mueller says the date in the lastmod field should reflect the date when the page’s content has changed...
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