Content refresh & decay watcher
An SEO team scans for content decay, prepares refresh / consolidate / retire plans for approval, records approved changes, and reads measured results back for a second human decision without changing a live page.
Saves you ~4.2 h / week
How it works
- Trigger
- On the “Recurring decay sweep” schedule.
- Job
- Scan the inventory for decay, diagnose each decaying page.
- Outcome
- A prioritized content refresh plan backed by decay evidence.
What it installs
Agents 2
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SEO Analyst
An SEO analyst who watches the content inventory for ranking and traffic decay and proposes refresh recommendations for human approval.
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Content refresh & decay watcher Quality Reviewer
Checks primary evidence, domain controls, deliverable completeness, and communication quality, stopping the run when the work is wrong, unsupported, incomplete, or uncertain.
Teams 1
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Content refresh & decay watcher quality team
The delivery agents produce the work while an independent quality reviewer checks each workflow handoff against explicit evidence, domain, and communication requirements before the run can continue.
Workflows 2
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Scan, diagnose, recommend, approve
Scan the inventory for decay, diagnose each decaying page, self-check the rationale and republish treatment, and hand the recommendations off for approval.
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Content refresh performance readback
Load due refresh results, compare the fixed windows and guardrails, obtain a human decision, and preserve the approved evidence and next action.
Documents 2
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Content inventory & decay signals
The pages the watcher tracks, the baseline it compares against, and the decay signals that trigger a refresh recommendation.
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Content refresh change log
The approved refresh plans, actual live changes, fixed comparison windows, source-backed outcomes, and human decisions for tracked pages.
Goals 1
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No page decays unseen
Catch ranking and traffic decay before it compounds. Success looks like: Every published page in the inventory is reviewed each sweep, and every page showing decay receives a refresh / consolidate / retire recommendation awaiting approval. Every approved live change gets a fixed, source-backed readback and a human-approved retain, keep observing, restore, or unproven decision without an automatic page change.
Skills 4
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content-refresher
Identify decaying content from age, dated claims, lost rankings, declining clicks, broken links, and SERP shifts; diagnose page-level decay; decide refresh vs. rewrite; plan the specific updates with GEO additions; and set a republish-date strategy keyed to how much changed. Adapted from aaron-he-zhu/seo-geo-claude-skills/content-refresher.
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content-quality-auditor
Run an 80-item CORE-EEAT quality audit across 8 dimensions with Pass/Partial/Fail scoring, veto checks on the critical trust items (clickbait title, undisclosed affiliate links, self-contradicting data), a SHIP/FIX/BLOCK verdict, and a prioritized fix plan — in plain language, never internal item IDs. Adapted from aaron-he-zhu/seo-geo-claude-skills/content-quality-auditor.
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rank-tracker
Measure keyword and SERP-position deltas over time from exports or connected tools, citing each position's source; flag biggest movers and likely (corroborated) causes; track SERP-feature ownership and AI-citation visibility; and apply the rank-change response protocol. Adapted from aaron-he-zhu/seo-geo-claude-skills/rank-tracker.
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performance-reporter
Build a multi-metric SEO/GEO sweep report spanning traffic, rankings, AI visibility, authority, and content — every metric period-compared and source-tagged, every recommendation carrying owner, priority, and expected impact, and a required prior-period comparison. Adapted from aaron-he-zhu/seo-geo-claude-skills/performance-reporter.
Schedules 2
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Recurring decay sweep
Runs the content decay sweep on the schedule you choose. ## Professional quality control Objective: complete the recurring Content refresh & decay watcher operating cycle and deliver a review-ready, evidence-backed result rather than merely report that the schedule ran. Start by fixing the review period, reading the current source records and prior run, confirming required access, and listing missing or contradictory inputs. Execute the bundle's full authored method in order, retaining source, calculation, command, or before/after evidence for load-bearing findings. Separate facts from interpretation, apply supplied policy without inventing thresholds, and stop any branch that requires missing authority or an unconfirmed human rule. Produce the complete named deliverable plus an evidence record, assumptions, exceptions, unresolved questions, and concrete next actions with owners where the method calls for them. Run the workflow's independent verifier checks and fix failures before requesting approval. The task is done only when every requested section and quality criterion passes or a blocker is explicit; silence, inaccessible data, or polished prose is not proof of completion. Verify current platform guidance, crawl or search evidence, measured versus estimated metrics, affected URLs, and the reader value behind each recommendation. Reject keyword-shaped filler, generic AI phrasing, stale rules, date-only refreshes, unsupported ranking claims, and content written for a crawler rather than a person. The human retains authority over publication, sending, spend, signing, merging, deployment, and other consequential external actions.
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Monthly content refresh readback
Runs the results workflow for implemented page changes whose fixed measurement windows and readback dates are due. ## Professional quality control Objective: complete the recurring Content refresh & decay watcher operating cycle and deliver a review-ready, evidence-backed result rather than merely report that the schedule ran. Start by fixing the review period, reading the current source records and prior run, confirming required access, and listing missing or contradictory inputs. Execute the bundle's full authored method in order, retaining source, calculation, command, or before/after evidence for load-bearing findings. Separate facts from interpretation, apply supplied policy without inventing thresholds, and stop any branch that requires missing authority or an unconfirmed human rule. Produce the complete named deliverable plus an evidence record, assumptions, exceptions, unresolved questions, and concrete next actions with owners where the method calls for them. Run the workflow's independent verifier checks and fix failures before requesting approval. The task is done only when every requested section and quality criterion passes or a blocker is explicit; silence, inaccessible data, or polished prose is not proof of completion. Verify current platform guidance, crawl or search evidence, measured versus estimated metrics, affected URLs, and the reader value behind each recommendation. Reject keyword-shaped filler, generic AI phrasing, stale rules, date-only refreshes, unsupported ranking claims, and content written for a crawler rather than a person. The human retains authority over publication, sending, spend, signing, merging, deployment, and other consequential external actions.
Connectors optional
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Ahrefs
Connects to Ahrefs so the analyst can pull ranking history and keyword movement when diagnosing why a page is decaying.
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Semrush
Connects to Semrush so the analyst can pull ranking history and keyword movement when diagnosing why a page is decaying.
Folders 1
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Content Refresh Watcher
Requirements
- Browser access to Google Search Console — The agent reads ranking, clicks, and impressions decay in Google Search Console through its web interface in your browser and pauses for your approval before anything is reworked. Until you connect it, it works from attached GSC/analytics exports and the content inventory document.
- Web search and fetch access for SERP and competitor checks — The agent checks the live SERP, competitor pages, and People-Also-Ask gaps through worker web search and fetch tools; it only reads public pages.
Setup guide
How to Catch Content Decay Before Rankings Drop
A practical guide to finding content decay, approving refresh plans, and measuring what changed after publication.
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