Content Audits: Inventory, Asset and Content Quality Analysis

A content inventory is the process and the result of cataloging the entire contents of a website which is the first step in any of our content audits. A content audit is the process of evaluating that content that is found in the content inventory stage. Our content audits and the content audit reports include the following assessments of the content on your website in an easy to understand content audit spreadsheet with an accompanying executive summary to help you better serve your users and the Googlebot Persona with your content.

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Content Inventory Audit

To get a idea of the types of content that live on your website, the first step is doing a content inventory audit. This helps us understand the content types that you have on your website, and how they are organized throughout the structure of your website.

• Page Name: Name of the page.
• Hierarchy: Where the page lives.
• URL: URL of specific page.
• Page Type: Determines the type of page (article, tool, product, etc).

Features Audit

Understanding the assets on a page and how they interact with the primary goal of the page is important. The features audit records and analyzes whether the content types below live on a page and how relevant they are in terms of interaction value with each other.

• Products
• Tools
• Articles
• Videos
• Images
• Downloads
• Features
• FAQs
• UGC (User Generated Content)

Editorial Notes

The editorial notes section of the audit points out any negative editorial characteristics that your content contains. These concerns can include:

• A lack of format
• No clear introduction, conclusion, or has confusing transitions
• Lacks proper spelling
• Information is inaccurate or old

Content Quality

The quality of your content is how users and search engines alike will judge the trust and value your website has for them. We break out content into 4 buckets to better describe the content set that you are presenting to your audience and areas that need to be addressed to help build value.

• ROT (Redundant, Outdated, or Trivial): Content that is duplicated, older than 1+ years, or just offers no value to the business.
• Irrelevant: Content is irrelevant and does not support the page or topic.
• Walled off Content: Content is firewalled (requires a login) it creates a barrier for users.
• OK Content: Content that is deemed okay, but may need slight revisions.

Content Page Rating

We give you a easy to understand rating for the content on your website. This will outline different groups of content and the value that each brings to your business. It will allow us (and you) to see issues with pieces of content as well as content sets as a whole which defines the value your content set brings to your website and business.

• 1 – 2 Rating

Low quality content. May consist of ROT content, dead links or lacks any factual information. Content that falls in this category offers little to no value to a user.

• 3 – 4 Rating

Good content that covers a majority of the criteria for good content but may be lacking one or two points.

• 5 Rating

Content is clear, concise and timely and offers value to the user.

Edit Effort

With each piece of content we will define the rating as outlined above, as well as the effort to edit 0-5 (0 being no edits needed, 5 being needs to be rewritten or deleted).

• O: Content is good and does not need editing.
• 1 – 2: May need quick glance over to ensure that the content is timely and relevant.
• 3 – 4: May require more effort and rewriting, but content can be re-purposed.
• 5: May need to be completely rewritten or deleted.

If edits are needed and you would like to embark on the execution of fixing your content sets our editing and proofreading service can be used to fix your content.