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Update. Restructure. Re-publish. Recover the rankings.

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Content Refresher
CONTENT REFRESHER

Content Refresher restores existing posts that are losing rankings or never earned them. We update stats, add new sections, fix structure, add AEO-ready selectors, and re-publish — turning a slow leak of dead content into a compounding asset. Faster, cheaper, and often higher-yield than writing new pieces.

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Who it's for

Built for operators who don't have a marketing team.

  • Sites with 30+ posts watching organic traffic decay quarter over quarter.
  • Practices and clinics with old long-form that still earns occasional referrals.
  • Healthcare brands whose old top-ranking posts have slipped to positions 4-12.
What ships

Concrete artifacts. No slide-deck strategy.

Decay audit

A ranked list of posts losing share — by position drop, traffic decay, and citation loss — surfaced from your analytics, search console, and AI-engine citation tracking.

Refresh briefs

Per-post briefs naming the structural problems, the new sections to add, the stats and citations to update, and the AEO selectors to add.

Drafted refreshes

Refreshed drafts — updated copy, new sections, current citations, and structural fixes — landed on a recurring cadence and ready for your editor.

Freshness + schema patch

Each refresh ships with an updated dateModified, refreshed schema, internal link audit, and speakable selectors where the new structure earns them.

Re-publish checklist

A simple checklist for re-publishing — when to swap URL slugs, when to keep them, how to handle redirects, when to ping IndexNow.

Post-refresh tracking

60 and 120-day check-ins on each refreshed piece to confirm the work delivered the ranking and citation lift it was supposed to.

How it gets built

A four-step working method.

  1. Decay scan

    Two weeks of work pulling the data and ranking the refresh candidates by upside per hour of effort.

  2. Brief + draft cycle

    Briefs and drafts roll on a weekly cadence — usually four to eight refreshes per month depending on length and structural complexity.

  3. Re-publish + ping

    Each refresh is re-published with an updated dateModified, internal link audit, and IndexNow ping where applicable.

  4. Track + iterate

    60 and 120-day reviews confirm which refreshes worked and which need a second pass. Patterns from the wins feed the next batch of briefs.

Questions answered

Frequently asked.

How much traffic should I expect to recover?
It depends on the cause of decay. Pieces that decayed because of stale stats and structural drift typically recover 40 to 80 percent of peak traffic. Pieces that decayed because the underlying intent shifted often need to be replaced, not refreshed; we surface those during the audit.
Is this just adding the current year to the title?
No. Title and dateModified bumps without underlying refresh work usually do not restore rankings — Google detects shallow updates. The engagement does the actual editorial and structural work that earns the re-rank.
Do you handle URL changes and redirects?
Yes. We default to keeping the URL stable when ranking signals are still useful and the topic has not drifted. When a slug change is right, we land it with the correct 301 and verify in Search Console.
Do you also restore AI engine citations?
Yes. Refreshes include AEO selectors, AeoSummary blocks, and FAQ schema where the topic supports them — the same patterns that win answer-engine citations on new content.
How is this priced compared to new content?
A refresh is typically 40 to 60 percent of the cost of writing the same piece new. The yield per dollar is often higher because the historical ranking signals carry forward.
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Thirty-minute discovery call with Matthew Sexton, LCSW directly. No SDR, no qualification script, no junior account executive booking the next call. You leave with a scoped engagement.

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