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> They don't want it to look stale. But that can also be extremely counterproductive when the content you publish has a natural expiry date - and in many areas
by ivanhoe 5y ago
> They don't want it to look stale.
But that can also be extremely counterproductive when the content you publish has a natural expiry date - and in many areas of expertise (pretty much anything other than pure marketing talk) things change over time. Potential client seeing the obsolete information might rightfully presume that the company is out of the loop or just plain unprofessional. If you have a date on the page it's far less likely to happen.
COVID recommendations and measures are one such (rather extreme) example where many big players endangered their credibility because they've failed to properly mark the outdated content.
- rgrieselhuber 5y agoIt also serves as its own form of memory hole, if readers can’t get the context of the date after a few searches, they are likely to just give up.
- sofixa 5y agoThat's why The Guardian is a pretty great source for news, they add a banner on all old articles saying it's X years old, so beware, information might be stale.