Certification Module Content Optimisation

Lesson 4: Content Optimisation and Refresh

The learner can strengthen existing assets and counter content decay to sustain performance.

ID
SS-CE-004
Confidence
Emerging · 55
Evidence
Emerging
Updated
2026-07-08

Overview

The learner can strengthen existing assets and counter content decay to sustain performance.

Practitioner level

Learning objectives

  • Assess an existing page for depth, structure and entity coverage
  • Recognise the signals of content decay and act before rankings fall
  • Plan a refresh that measurably improves an asset's strength

Lesson outline

  • Grading assets: what makes a page competitive
  • The Content Decay Model and its warning signs
  • The Content Refresh Framework end to end
  • Answer-first rewriting for search and AI
  • Measuring the lift from an optimisation

Recommended next steps

    Apply the method Content Decay Model Framework See the wider capability Content Refresh Capability