A crawler cannot tell
what changed, or when.
RankReady scans your library, finds the posts that have gone stale, and ranks them by what is worth fixing first. About five minutes to set up, and it works alongside Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO and SEOPress.
v1.3.1 · 300 active installs · Tested to WordPress 7.1 · Runs alongside Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO and SEOPress
Age is not the problem.
Being wrong is.
In the OrganiKPI citation study the median quoted page was about 298 days old, so age alone is not the problem. What a crawler cannot work out is whether a page still holds, because WordPress updates the modified date for a typo fix and a rewrite alike. RankReady publishes an explicit freshness signal instead of leaving it to be guessed.
Signals a machine reads,
not the date your theme prints.
Every post is bucketed and ranked, and the editing stays yours.
Real modification dates
datePublished and dateModified in the structured data, and whether the visible date on the page agrees with them.
Age against your own library
So a five year old reference post is not flagged the same way as a five year old best tools of the year list.
Decay signals inside the content
Year references that have passed, version numbers that have moved on, and the other tells that a post is claiming to be current while it is not.
Priority order
Ranked by opportunity rather than alphabetically, so you fix the post that matters rather than the one that sorts first.
Bucketed into fresh, going stale and stale
A list you can work through, with the state visible inside the plugin's Insights → Content Fresh tab.
dateModified written when content changes
Not on a schedule, not on a button. The signal follows the edit.
Changing a date
is not updating.
The reason this feature is deliberately smaller than it could be.
It reports, it does not rewrite
The scanner ranks and buckets. Editing is yours, deliberately, because an automated content edit you did not review is how a blog gets quietly wrecked.
There is no republish with today's date
The median cited page is around 298 days old, so age itself is not the problem. Change the content when it is wrong and let the date follow.
It is not a traffic audit
Traditional content audits look at rankings and sessions. This looks at whether the machine readable freshness signals are present, correct and consistent with the page.
It does not touch your SEO plugin
Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO and SEOPress keep their own output. RankReady reads and writes its own freshness data.
The honest answers,
before you have to ask.
Q. Should I republish old posts with today's date?
No. The median cited page is around 298 days old, so age itself is not the problem. Change the content when it is wrong, and let the date follow.
Q. How is this different from an SEO plugin's content audit?
Traditional audits look at rankings and traffic. This looks at whether the freshness signals a machine reads are present, correct and consistent with what your page actually says.
Q. Does the scanner change anything automatically?
No. It reports and ranks. Editing is yours, because an automated content edit you did not review is how a blog gets quietly wrecked.
Q. Can I bulk update dateModified?
You can select posts you have genuinely edited and write the signal in one pass. There is no button that fakes it on posts you have not touched.
Q. Does it work with Yoast or Rank Math installed?
Yes. It runs alongside Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO and SEOPress and does not modify their output.
Q. How long does setup take?
About five minutes. Open Insights, turn on the freshness scan, and work down the list.
Make your site readable
to the things reading it.
RankReady is a WordPress AI SEO plugin. It runs alongside Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO and SEOPress rather than replacing any of them, and setup takes about five minutes from your dashboard.
Free, no account, no credit card · GPL-2.0 · About five minutes from your dashboard