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Last Modified and Timezones in Keyword Research

Keyword Research Last Modified Values

A1 Keyword Research extracts these values in one of two ways:
  1. Checks if the webserver responds with last-modified HTTP response header:

    HTML pages: The webserver will usually generate this header for you.

    PHP example: Extract last-modified from file:
    <?php header("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s", filemtime($SCRIPT_FILENAME)) . " GMT"); ?>.

    ASP example: Set hard coded last-modified:
    <% Response.AddHeader "Last-modified","Mon, 01 Jan 2000 11:22:33 GMT" %>.

    ASP.Net functions you can check documentation on:
    Response.Cache.SetLastModified(DateTime date);
    Response.Cache.SetLastModifiedFromFileDependencies();
    Response.AddFileDependancy(string filename);

  2. If no relevant HTTP reponse header, the page is checked for last-modified HTML meta tag.
  3. If still no last modified value has been retrieved, the URL path will be analyzed for date like patterns, e.g. yyyy/mm/dd.


Understand Timezone and Timestamps

You can always view the last-modified values retrieved in page data.

last modified timestamp for URL

Note: The server timezone will often be placed and configured to be different from your timezone. The date and time the server returns in last-modified depends on the server computer clock. This again depends on how the server timezone and clock has been configured.

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