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(Entry was posted by Sarah Adams on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 06/25/2020).

Need advice on delivering a large content audit

Hello! I am looking for advice on how to present findings for a large enterprise content audit.I`m working on a large site migration project and one of the deliverables is a very big content audit. The content audit is meant to identify what pages can be pruned and what should be migrated over, along with helping inform decisions about tagging, how content will be sorted, what page templates we`ll need to develop, what the URL structure will look like, paywall metering decisions, etc. The content audit that will be handed over to the migration team will be in a Google Sheet format since they`ll just need the URLs they`re migrating over...but I`m trying to figure out the best way to present the information to the client because I`ve never done a content audit THIS BIG. As I worked through each section I would note any observations, and I ended up with a 30-page doc haha. Does anyone have experience delivering a large content audit with a lot of findings/observations/questions? I want to try to avoid turning my findings into a big presentation deck because my PM will murder me if I go too far over the time attached to it...but it`s one of the biggest to-dos attached to the project so I might have to. If anyone has any ideas on hwo to present this type of information, or can point me to some examples, I`d love to hear it!!
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YOUR ANSWERS

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

  • Sarah Adams: Any help is much appreciated!
  • Ammon Johns: Paging David Harry who`s one of the audit specialists I know sometimes hangs out in here, and Content Audit specialist Shelley Walsh

    In the meantime, my general advice with any kind of reporting or audit is that you should always think what will work best for the client. Some clients love detail and like everything in the report, while others are mainly paying for an expert to summarize and simplify it for them and don`t need to see the `working out`.

    I believe you always have to `tailor` the report, no matter what your usual MO, into something specifically made to provide the most value and ease for the client.
  • Sarah Adams: thanks for the feedback and 100% agreed!
  • Michael Martinez: When herding cats you can`t afford to give them all names.

    When I`ve done audits like this I`ve grouped similar pages together in lists and written notes for each list.
  • Travis Bailey: The one page report is seldom read.
    The two page report is seldom...
    The three page report is...
    The four page report...
    The five page...

    *Edit: Blatantly stolen from my college technical writing course.
  • Travis Bailey: It`s often easier to show, rather than tell. GA treemaps are pretty handy for these moments. You may have to employ some custom segments, but such is life.

    Big green section good. Red-ish section bad (or needs improvement).
  • Richard Hearne: How large is the site? How many URLs are you reviewing?

View original question in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 06/25/2020).