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Run your first audit

You’ve installed the plugin, activated your license, and added your OpenRouter key. Time for the moment of truth: a full audit of your blog.

Open the Audit tab

In your WordPress admin, click 🌿 SeoFreshUp in the left sidebar. The default tab that opens is 🔍 Audit — this is your dashboard for content quality.

You’ll see at the top:

  • A toolbar with filters, search, period selector
  • A button 📊 Analyse complète (the orange one — this is what we’ll click)
  • Below: a table of all your published articles with columns Title, Date, Words, Images, Quality, Traffic, Action

Step 1 — Click “Analyse complète”

This single button runs the full pipeline in 4 sequential phases:

  1. 📊 Load traffic (Site Kit + Google Search Console + GA4) — about 5-10 seconds
  2. 🔄 Refresh Google feed (latest Core Updates dates, directives) — about 2 seconds
  3. 🛡 Risk analysis (AI evaluates each article against Google Core Updates) — ~30 seconds per 100 articles
  4. 🤖 AI editorial verdict (each article gets KEEP / UPDATE / REWORK / DELETE) — ~30 seconds per 100 articles

For a 1000-article blog, the full process takes 5-10 minutes and costs ~$2-5 in OpenRouter credits.

Step 2 — Watch the progress

A modal opens with a step-by-step progress bar. You can leave the page open in another tab — analysis runs server-side and survives a tab close. If you close the browser, the AJAX call will continue in the background until done (or until your hosting times out, typically after 5 min).

If your hosting times out before the 1000-article job finishes, see Troubleshooting → Compatibility for tips.

Step 3 — Read the dashboard

Once the audit finishes, the page reloads with new data:

Stats widgets at the top

WidgetWhat it shows
ArticlesTotal published articles analyzed
À supprimerArticles with verdict = DELETE (no traffic, low quality)
NOINDEXArticles to keep but exclude from search results
RetravaillerArticles worth rewriting from scratch
GarderArticles that are good as-is

The articles table

Each row shows:

  • Title + permalink + verdict badges (RETRAVAILLER · MOYEN, GARDER · FORT, etc.)
  • Date of publication and last modification
  • Word count with a colored bar (red < 150, orange 150-399, yellow 400-699, green 700+)
  • Image count + thumbnail status (badge ”✗ Pas de FA” if no featured image)
  • Quality % (combines all signals : risk + verdict + potential + links + age — 100 % = perfect)
  • Traffic (clicks + views from Google Search Console + GA4 over the period)
  • Action dropdown (per-row actions: edit, rewrite, NOINDEX, delete, etc.)

Step 4 — Filter to find what to act on

Use the dropdown at the top-left to filter:

  • 🔴 À supprimer (<150 mots) — thin content candidates for deletion
  • 🎯 À supprimer + 0 trafic — safe deletion (zero traffic, low quality)
  • 🤖 SUPPRIMER (verdict IA) — AI says delete
  • 🤖 RETRAVAILLER (verdict IA) — AI says rewrite from scratch
  • 🤖 GARDER (verdict IA) — AI says keep as-is
  • 🛡 À risque ÉLEVÉ (Core Update) — flagged as likely to be hit by next Google update

For most users, the high-value filters are À supprimer + 0 trafic and RETRAVAILLER.

Step 5 — Take action

Each row has an ⚡ Action dropdown with options:

  • ✏ Edit in WordPress
  • 🪄 Open AI rewrite (modal)
  • 🔄 Re-analyze
  • 🛡 Re-run risk analysis
  • 🚫 Set NOINDEX
  • 🗑 Move to trash (with auto 301 to category)

For bulk operations, select multiple rows with the checkboxes and use the action bar that appears at the bottom.

Common first-audit findings

After your first audit, expect to find:

  • 20-40 % of articles flagged DELETE (typical for a blog older than 2 years that has accumulated thin content, news posts, ephemeral updates)
  • 30-50 % flagged RETRAVAILLER (decent topics but old, thin, or hit by past Core Updates)
  • 20-30 % flagged GARDER (your best-performing core content)

This is normal. Most blogs carry significant dead weight. The point of SeoFreshUp is to surface it cleanly and let you decide what to do.

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