How Often Should You Update Your Website (or blog)?

[Zivush]

I know many webmasters and bloggers ask themselves these questions from time to time:
• Should you update your blog regularly for better ranking?
• Does Google downgrade websites that aren’t updated on a regular basis?
• What is better? 1 good article at a time or 10 so n so?
• No one wants to saturate the existing content. Could updating harm the current content's ranking?

If you’re not a news website, relying on users that regularly visit directly, should you update?

Any evidence that webmasters should feed the crawler otherwise we suffer?
Is it a factor in the algorithm?

[neildt]

Google as do other search engines like fresh relevant content. So I'd be looking to make sure your blog has the most up to date information dependent on what your blogging about ?

[netmeg]

This is not one you do for Google, you do it for users. You update as often as you have something to say, and your niche requires. It's better to add one blog post of killer content than ten blog posts of crap for Google.

You update to keep ahead of your competitors maybe, but not for Google.

If your content is evergreen (i.e. it'll still be relevant a year from now) and you're worried about freshness, then take the dates off your posts.

[Planet13]

This is not one you do for Google, you do it for users.

+1

[Zivush]

If your content is evergreen (i.e. it'll still be relevant a year from now) and you're worried about freshness, then take the dates off your posts.

I forgot to remove the dates. Thanks netmeg. Yes it's evergreen.