Content Audit

Find out which pages are earning their place and which ones are dragging you down.

Every page on your site is either working for you or working against you. This audit classifies every URL, scores content quality across 20 dimensions, and gives you a clear action plan for what to keep, improve, merge, or remove.

What It Covers

A complete inventory of your content's performance and potential.

Every indexable page assessed for quality, search intent alignment, and competitive positioning against your own pages.

Content Quality Scoring Per Page

Each page scored across depth, originality, accuracy, formatting, and user value. Not a surface scan. A human-reviewed evaluation of whether the content justifies its existence.

Search Intent Alignment

Every page mapped against its target keyword's actual intent: informational, navigational, commercial, or transactional. Mismatched intent is one of the most common reasons good content fails to rank.

Thin and Duplicate Content Detection

Pages with insufficient depth to satisfy user queries, near-duplicate pages cannibalizing each other, and boilerplate-heavy templates where unique content is a fraction of the page.

Content Freshness and Decay Analysis

Identifying pages where traffic has declined over time due to outdated information, stale statistics, or competitor content that has surpassed yours in recency and depth.

E-E-A-T Signal Assessment

Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness signals evaluated per page: author attribution, sourcing, credentials, and whether the content demonstrates firsthand knowledge.

Keyword Cannibalization Mapping

Identifying clusters of pages targeting the same keywords, splitting ranking potential across multiple URLs instead of consolidating authority into one definitive page.

Content Gap Identification

Topics and queries your competitors rank for that you have no content addressing. Opportunities to create new pages that fill specific gaps in your topical coverage.

Readability and Formatting Review

Header structure, paragraph length, use of lists and visuals, reading level appropriateness for the target audience, and mobile formatting quality.

Author Attribution and Expertise Signals

Whether content is attributed to named authors with visible credentials, bio pages, and schema markup that signals expertise to both users and search engines.

Content Inventory with Classification

Every URL categorized into one of four actions: keep as-is, improve with specific updates, merge with related pages to consolidate authority, or prune to remove dead weight from your index.

Why It Matters

Most sites have pages actively hurting their rankings without knowing it.

More content does not mean more rankings. Thin pages dilute domain authority, and placeholder content drags down the pages that actually deserve to rank.

Pages competing for the same keywords split your ranking potential. Consolidation is not about less content -- it is about concentrating authority where it counts.

Content mismatched to search intent never ranks, regardless of quality. And E-E-A-T signals are increasingly critical -- content without sourcing, author attribution, or evidence sends a trust signal Google acts on algorithmically.

What You Get

A complete content roadmap, not a vague content strategy.

Clear, data-backed direction on what to do next. No ambiguity, no subjective recommendations.

Master content inventory with action classification (keep, improve, merge, prune) for every indexed URL on your site, along with the reasoning behind each recommendation.
Content quality scorecard evaluating each page across 20 dimensions, including depth, originality, intent alignment, E-E-A-T signals, formatting, and competitive positioning.
Keyword cannibalization matrix showing which pages are competing against each other, which keywords are affected, and recommended consolidation targets.
Content freshness calendar highlighting pages that need updating based on traffic decay patterns, information staleness, and competitive movement in the SERP.
Prune list with specific URLs to remove or noindex, including the estimated impact on crawl budget and domain quality signals when dead weight is cleared.
Merge recommendations with page pairs or clusters that should be consolidated, including which URL should be the surviving page and what redirect structure to implement.
Content gap analysis showing high-value topics your competitors rank for where you have no content, prioritized by search volume and competitive difficulty.
Common Findings

Patterns we see across nearly every content audit.

These are not hypothetical scenarios. They are recurring issues that show up in audits across industries, company sizes, and content maturity levels.

Finding 01

40% of Blog Posts Targeting the Same Keyword Cluster

48 of 120 blog posts targeting variations of the same three keywords, resulting in five pages fluctuating between positions 15 and 40.

Finding 02

Service Pages with Duplicate Meta Descriptions

Twelve service pages with identical meta descriptions, dropping CTR 40% below site average due to indistinguishable search snippets.

Finding 03

Content Making Claims Without Supporting Evidence

Comparison pages stating opinions as facts with no sourcing or author credentials, correlating directly with ranking losses post-helpful content update.

Finding 04

Articles Over 18 Months Old with No Updates

Stale statistics, sunsetted tool recommendations, and outdated process guides eroding rankings for 35% of top-traffic pages.

Who This Is For

Built for teams that publish regularly and need to know what is working.

This audit is designed for organizations with an existing content library that needs evaluation, optimization, or strategic restructuring.

Content Teams

Editorial teams that need data-driven direction on which content to update, which to retire, and where the highest-value opportunities exist for new creation.

Marketing Leaders

CMOs and VPs who need to justify content investment with performance data, showing exactly which assets are driving results and which are consuming budget without return.

Sites After Traffic Declines

Websites that have experienced organic traffic drops following algorithm updates and need to understand which content is being demoted and why.

Know exactly what your content is doing for you.

Get a full content diagnosis for your site, or review a sample audit to understand the depth of analysis before you start. See full pricing and what is included.