Key Takeaways
- Content Inventory
- The Four Content Decisions
- Prioritizing Updates
A content audit is a systematic evaluation of every piece of content on your website — identifying what is working, what is underperforming, and what should be updated, merged, or removed. Regular content audits are essential for maintaining SEO health and content quality at scale.
Content Inventory
Use Screaming Frog or ContentKing to crawl your site and export a list of all URLs. For each URL, gather: monthly organic sessions (Google Search Console), page engagement rate (GA4), number of backlinks (Ahrefs), and published date. This creates your audit database.
The Four Content Decisions
Keep and improve (strong traffic, strong engagement), Consolidate (similar pages targeting the same keyword — merge into one), Update (good topic, outdated content — refresh and republish), Delete and redirect (thin content with no traffic, no backlinks, and no business value — 404 and redirect to related content).
Prioritizing Updates
Focus update effort on: pages with top 25% traffic that have declined in the last 6 months (high impact), pages ranking positions 6–15 for target keywords (close to page 1, worth a push), and pages with high impressions but low CTR in Search Console (fix meta titles and descriptions).
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