Does evergreen content matter for a small site?

Keep the year out of the URL and the title tag, then give the post a proper check once a year. A two-year-old guide with dead screenshots is still evergreen in theory, but readers can tell.

More than it does for a big one. A large site can afford to chase the news cycle because it has the authority to rank for something within a day and the volume to absorb pieces that are dead in a week. A small site has neither. Something that answers a question people will still be typing in three years keeps earning long after you've forgotten you wrote it.