A WordPress post with a last modified date often gets a better ranking than that with a published date. The last updated date stamp, usually, informs searchers or readers how fresh the post is. Few people click a post from an older date, say a timestamp on May 4. The content may be too outdated to work practically. Also, that’s not SEO friendly. Searchers prefer to open those pages with timestamps like “3 days ago”, “8 hours ago”...
