Content Audit Tool for Pages You Already Published

A content audit tool evaluates the pages you already published (on-page SEO, topic coverage, internal links, schema, freshness) and tells you what to fix first. Reoptimize audits each page against the pages currently ranking for its target keyword, not against a generic checklist, and returns a prioritized fix list per URL. It covers 100 to 5,000 pages per plan, from $49 a month.

Read-only. No CMS access. Plans from $49/mo.

Analyze a page you already published

Read-only. No CMS access needed.

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Measured on your live page just now. No tool can guarantee rankings.

Sample plan: we could not reach your page from here, so this shows the shape of a Reoptimize rewrite plan, not an audit of this page.

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What the content audit tool checks

LayerWhat Reoptimize evaluates
On-page SEOTitle and meta versus current intent, H1, heading hierarchy, answer-first structure
Topic coverageEntities, subtopics, and questions the current top 10 cover that your page skips
Internal linksInbound links from your own site, anchor quality, orphaned-page detection
SchemaStructured data the page qualifies for but does not ship
FreshnessDated statistics, stale years, decayed examples, last-updated signals
DecayEstimated traffic at stake versus the page's ranking history pattern

Paste one URL into the analyzer above to see the audit for that page. For a whole site, import the sitemap and the same six checks run on every URL, sorted by traffic at stake.

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Content audit tools compared

Most software sold as a content audit tool does one of three jobs: it crawls and inventories pages, it grades a draft against keywords, or it flags pages whose traffic dropped. Few do the part that takes the hours, which is working out what each declining page is missing compared with the pages that beat it. The table shows where each common option stops.

ToolWhat the audit producesScale and entry price
ReoptimizePer-page diff against the live top 10: title, subtopics, heading order, internal links, schema, stale facts, written as before and after fixes100 pages for $49 a month billed yearly; 1,000 for $149; 5,000 for $399
Semrush On Page SEO CheckerSemrush retired its Content Audit tool and now points users here: ideas for pages that rank for keywords you track in a project, not an inventory of the whole libraryPart of the suite, from $139.95 a month. See our Semrush Content Audit alternative
Screaming Frog SEO SpiderCrawl inventory: titles, metas, word counts, status codes, duplicates. Excellent inventory, no judgment about what to changeFree up to 500 URLs; paid license listed at 245 euros a year
Clearscope Content InventoryTracks pages and flags decay by comparing 90-day clicks with a year earlier; optimization happens in a separate draft report50 tracked pages on Essentials at $129 a month, 300 on Business
Ahrefs content audit templateA spreadsheet you fill from Site Audit and Search Console exports; the decision per page is manualFree template, Ahrefs plans separate

If your library is small enough to review by hand, the content audit template gives you the exact columns and the keep, refresh, consolidate, or prune rule. Past a few hundred URLs, the manual diff is what the software is for.

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Checklist audits versus SERP audits

Most audit tools grade a page in a vacuum: keyword density here, word count there. But rankings are relative. A 1,400-word page can be the best result for one query and hopeless for another; only the live SERP knows. That is why every Reoptimize audit starts by fetching what currently ranks for your target keyword and diffing your page against it. The output is not a grade, it is a work order: the specific gaps between your page and the pages beating it, ranked by expected impact. Run one page through the demo on the homepage, or audit your whole library and let the content decay checker sort the queue by traffic at stake.

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SEO content audit for SaaS and publisher libraries

The libraries that need audit software rather than a spreadsheet share one profile: hundreds of pages, several authors, and a traffic line that slid without anyone touching the content. On a SaaS site the decay usually hides in comparison pages, integration pages, and help articles that were accurate at launch and are now two product versions behind. On a publisher site it hides in evergreen guides that competitors refreshed last quarter. Reoptimize runs the same six checks across all of them on a schedule, so the audit is a standing report rather than a project someone has to re-run, and the decay ranking puts the pages with the most recoverable traffic first. Team setups for both cases are on the SaaS and publisher pages.

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From audit to executed fix

An audit that ends in a score is a dashboard; an audit that ends in edits is a tool. Each finding in Reoptimize is written as a before and after suggestion: the current title struck through, the proposed one written in; the missing subtopics listed with estimated word counts; the internal links named source page by source page. Writers execute straight from the plan, and agencies export it as a brief. For pages that turn out to be decayed rather than merely under-optimized, the plan flows into a full content refresh.

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What a content audit costs in software versus an agency

Published agency rate guides put a one-time content audit between roughly $300 and $1,500, and per-page optimization between $150 and $500 a page once the audit is done. For a 500-page library that is a five-figure project, repeated whenever the traffic line slips again. Reoptimize audits 1,000 pages continuously for $149 a month billed yearly and writes the per-page fixes as part of the plan; the writing still costs what your writers or agency charge, but the diagnosis stops being billed by the hour. The full breakdown of what agencies include and when they are worth it is on the content optimization services page, and plan limits are on the pricing page.

Frequently asked questions

What is a content audit?

A content audit is a systematic review of published pages to find what is underperforming and why, covering on-page SEO, topic coverage, links, schema, and freshness. Done well, it produces a prioritized fix list, not just an inventory.

What is the best software for content audit and refresh?

The best software for content audit and refresh does both halves in one pass: it finds the published pages that are losing clicks and tells you what to change on each. Reoptimize ranks declining pages by traffic at stake from Search Console and writes a refresh plan per page. Crawlers such as Screaming Frog cover the inventory, and writing tools such as Clearscope or Surfer cover editing a single draft.

What is the best tool for a content audit?

It depends on the job. For an inventory, a crawler such as Screaming Frog is hard to beat. For sorting pages by traffic trend, Clearscope Content Inventory works (Semrush retired its Content Audit tool). For finding what each declining page is missing against the pages that outrank it, and getting the fixes written out, Reoptimize is built for exactly that step.

What is the best content audit solution for agencies handling 1,000+ pages?

For agencies handling 1,000+ pages per client, the best content audit solution is one that re-checks pages continuously and ranks them by traffic lost, not a one-off crawl. Reoptimize Agency monitors 5,000 pages with 600 rewrite plans a month for $399 billed yearly; Pro covers 1,000 pages for $149. Spreadsheet audits stop scaling well before 1,000 URLs.

Is there an automated content audit tool for agencies?

Yes. Reoptimize automates the parts of a content audit that eat agency hours: it imports each client sitemap, pulls Search Console data, flags declining pages, and diffs each one against the current top results. Your team still decides and writes the fix, so every change is reviewed before it reaches a client site.

Can a content audit be automated?

Yes, most of it. Crawling, pulling Search Console data, spotting decay, and diffing each page against the current top 10 are mechanical and Reoptimize runs them on a schedule. The decision to refresh, consolidate, or prune a page, and the editing itself, stay with your team.

Do I need to install anything to audit my content?

No. Reoptimize fetches your public pages read-only. Paste URLs or import a sitemap; there is no plugin, no snippet, and no CMS access.

How is this different from a technical SEO audit?

Technical audits cover crawlability, speed, and site architecture. Reoptimize audits the content itself against what currently ranks: coverage, intent, structure, links, schema, and freshness, page by page.

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