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A content audit is a systematic inventory of all the content on a website, with the aim of deciding for each page: keep, update, merge or remove. It is based on data on visibility, visits, conversions and content quality.
Content Audit — Explained in Detail
Websites grow over the years: blog posts nobody reads any more, service pages for offers that no longer exist, promotions from 2021, duplicate pages from different campaigns. A content audit tidies up. Every indexable page is recorded with its data and receives a decision.
The most important data sources are Google Search Console (impressions, clicks, queries), web analytics (visits, time on page, conversions) and a crawl (word count, titles, internal links, status codes). Added to this is the editorial assessment: is the page still correct? Does it answer the question better than the competition? Does it fit today's offer?
An example: a fiduciary firm has 120 blog posts. The audit shows that 15 regularly bring visits and enquiries, 30 deal with tax topics using outdated figures, 40 are short news items without search value, and 35 overlap across five topics. The result: 15 stay, 30 are updated, 40 are removed or set to noindex, and 35 are merged into five strong guides and redirected. 120 pages become 50, and each of them has a job to do.
How a content audit works
First, create an inventory of all indexable URLs from the sitemap and a crawl. Second, attach data from the last twelve months, so that seasonal pages are not misjudged. Third, assign each page to a topic and a search intent (keyword mapping); this makes overlaps visible. Fourth, make and justify a decision for each page. Fifth, set up redirects cleanly and adjust internal links.
It is important not to decide on visitor numbers alone. A page with few visits can be decisive for enquiries, such as a page on a rare but well-paid service.
Content audits and AI visibility
Outdated content is a particular risk in AI search: language models quote old prices, former offers or superseded legal positions if these are still on the website. A content audit reduces this risk and creates clear, current sources. More on this under thin content and evergreen content.
We carry out content audits as part of the SEO analysis or before a relaunch; see website redesign. On our own website, we updated around 110 articles of our German-language magazine in a single pass and kept tool prices only where they had a verified source and a date.
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SEO AnalysisFrequently Asked Questions About Content Audit
A systematic review of all content on a website, in which a decision is made for each page as to whether it stays, is updated, is merged with another page or is removed. It is based on data on visibility, usage and content quality.
For active websites with a lot of content, once a year; otherwise before a relaunch or after a significant loss of visibility. Individual important pages should be checked for currency regularly regardless.
Yes, if they are no longer of use. If a post has backlinks or visits, a redirect to suitable current content is better than deleting it without a destination. Posts with potential are better updated than deleted.
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