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Content Audit Templates

Templates for auditing, categorizing, and prioritizing your existing content for updates or removal.

7 free templates

Content Audit Spreadsheet

Free

Full site content inventory with performance metrics

Google Sheets

A complete content audit template that maps every page to its traffic, backlinks, word count, last updated date, and recommended action (keep, update, merge, or remove).

Source

Ahrefs

Use cases

  • Full site content inventory
  • Content refresh planning
  • Content pruning decisions
  • SEO migration preparation

Content Inventory Template

Free

Map all pages across your site with key metadata

Google Sheets

Catalog every page on your site with URL, title, content type, author, publish date, word count, and traffic data. A starting point for any content strategy project.

Source

HubSpot

Use cases

  • Pre-migration content cataloging
  • Content team onboarding
  • Site architecture planning
  • Content ownership mapping

Content Refresh Priority Template

Free

Score pages to identify which to update first

Google Sheets

Rank your existing pages by traffic decline, age, backlinks, and business value to generate a prioritized content refresh list. Focus effort where it matters most.

Source

Backlinko

Use cases

  • Content refresh prioritization
  • Traffic recovery planning
  • Seasonal content update scheduling
  • Resource allocation for content

Content Decay Tracker

Free

Monitor pages losing traffic over time

Google Sheets

Track month-over-month traffic changes for key pages and flag those with consistent declines. Pair with GSC data to understand which queries are driving the drops.

Source

Search Engine Journal

Use cases

  • Early content decay detection
  • Traffic loss investigation
  • Identifying pages to refresh
  • Reporting on content performance

Content Quality Scorecard

Free

Evaluate content across 10 quality criteria

Google Sheets

Score each page on readability, depth, originality, keyword optimization, internal linking, media usage, and more. Identify quality gaps before a content refresh.

Source

Moz

Use cases

  • Pre-refresh content quality review
  • Editorial standards enforcement
  • Content grading for teams
  • Quality improvement tracking

Content Pruning Checklist

Free

Decide which pages to delete, merge, or redirect

Google Sheets

A decision-tree style checklist for making content pruning decisions. Evaluates traffic, backlinks, uniqueness, and business value to recommend keep/merge/redirect/delete.

Source

Neil Patel

Use cases

  • Thin content removal decisions
  • Content consolidation planning
  • Redirect mapping for pruned pages
  • Site quality improvement

Page Performance Audit Template

Free

Combine traffic, engagement, and conversion data per page

Google Sheets

Merge organic traffic, bounce rate, time on page, and conversion data to get a full picture of each page's performance. Ideal for quarterly content reviews.

Source

SEMrush

Use cases

  • Quarterly content performance review
  • Conversion rate improvement
  • Engagement metric benchmarking
  • Content ROI measurement

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