Update policy
Software guides rot. Plans get renamed, free tiers get cut, features move between pricing tiers, and a recommendation that was right last year quietly stops being right. This page says how often that is checked and what triggers a rewrite.
What triggers a review
| Trigger | What gets checked |
|---|---|
| A vendor changes pricing or restructures plans | Every page mentioning that vendor's price, plus any comparison table it appears in |
| A vendor removes or limits a free tier | All “free alternatives” guides that recommend it |
| A product is discontinued, acquired or rebranded | Every page naming it, including outbound links |
| A reader reports an error | The specific claim, and the same claim wherever else it appears |
| A recommendation no longer matches how the tool works | The verdict itself, not just the wording around it |
What actually changes on the page
- The verdict, where the honest answer has changed — not just the date at the top.
- Comparison tables, when the decision criteria have moved on.
- Prices, which are always shown with the date they were checked.
- Links to newer guides, when a better page now exists for part of the question.
- Questions readers actually ask, added to the FAQ section.
A page's date is only moved when something on the page genuinely changed. Refreshing dates to look current, without editing the content, is a trick played on readers and search engines alike, and it is not done here.
Removal
Pages that stop being useful are deleted rather than left to drift. When a page is removed the server returns a permanent 410 Gone so search engines drop it quickly, instead of leaving a soft 404 in place for months. Where a better page covers the same question, the old URL points at it instead.
Related
- Corrections policy Reporting something that is wrong.
- Editorial policy The standard pages are held to.
- Contact Tell us about a stale page.