Content Rewriting Services for Pages You Already Published
Website rewrites, SEO content refresh, content editing and proofreading, and content repurposing, scoped per task and priced per deliverable.
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Content Rewriting Tasks and Pricing
Select a bounded batch of published material. The agreed URL or file list, the approved objective, the output format, one revision round, and a change log define acceptance.
Website Copy Rewrite
A one-time rewrite of named published pages that keep their URL and stay in the same language. Each page is rewritten against an approved objective and handed back with a change log; deciding which pages to fix, metadata and internal-link work, net-new pages, design, and development are excluded.
Deliverables
- Rewritten body copy per named URL, same page, same language
- Approved objective and message hierarchy per page
- Change log recording every replaced section
- One revision round per included page
- One QA pass against the approved batch
Volume Tiers
Blog Post Refresh
A one-time or monthly refresh of named published articles: outdated facts, thin sections, and stale examples replaced while the article keeps its URL and its structure. Decay diagnosis, metadata and internal-link updates, and net-new articles are separately scoped.
Deliverables
- Refreshed body copy per named article URL
- Replaced facts, figures, and examples with source notes
- Sections added or removed against the approved objective
- Updated publication or last-modified date where the CMS allows it
- Change log and one revision round per article
Volume Tiers
Product Description Rewrite
A one-time rewrite of existing product descriptions in the same language, against an approved tone and attribute template. Net-new product copy, catalog and feed engineering, translation, and marketplace account management are separate.
Deliverables
- Rewritten description per included product, same language
- Approved tone, attribute order, and length template
- Duplicate and boilerplate wording removed across the batch
- Delivery in your export format or agreed CMS-safe edits
- Change log and one revision round per batch
Volume Tiers
Editing & Proofreading
Line editing and proofreading of human-written source text in one language: clarity, logic, consistency, grammar, and house style. Anything that crosses a language boundary, including machine-translation post-editing, belongs to the Content Localization scope.
Deliverables
- Edited copy with tracked changes per included file
- Line edit for clarity, logic, and flow
- Proofread pass for grammar, punctuation, and typos
- Terminology and house-style consistency
- One revision round per included file
Volume Tiers
Content Repurposing
One published source piece rewritten into agreed new formats in the same language: summaries, checklists, social sets, newsletter copy, or slide outlines. Design, video production, translation, and net-new research are separate.
Deliverables
- Agreed output formats named per source piece
- Copy rewritten for each format, not extracted and pasted
- Format-specific length, structure, and call to action
- Change log and one revision round per source piece
Volume Tiers
Content Pruning & Consolidation
A one-time pass over a named set of published pages: thin and duplicate pages merged into one surviving URL and the merged copy rewritten. Which pages belong on the candidate list is a strategy deliverable, and redirects and canonicals are implemented in the Technical SEO scope.
Deliverables
- Merge map per included URL, built from the approved candidate list
- Consolidated body copy on each surviving page
- Redirect and canonical specification handed to implementation
- Change log covering the full batch
- One QA pass over the surviving pages
Volume Tiers
Your Largest Content Asset Is Already Published
Most sites have more value trapped in old pages than in the next thing they write.
Published pages decay and nobody owns them
A page that won its position two years ago is now describing a product that changed, quoting a figure that moved, and answering a question the market has reframed. Nothing breaks loudly, so nothing gets scheduled. The traffic drifts down one quarter at a time until the page is quietly worth nothing, and the team reacts by commissioning a new page instead of fixing the one that already has links and history.
Thin and duplicate pages drag the whole site down
Years of publishing leave three pages competing for one query, half-finished category text nobody signed off, and near-identical descriptions across hundreds of products. Every one of them splits signals and dilutes the pages you actually care about. Fixing it is not a writing project. It is an inventory problem: decide what survives, merge the rest into it, and rewrite the survivor so it earns the position on its own.
Good source material is published once and never reused
The research that went into one strong article is usually enough for a checklist, a newsletter, a short social set, and a sales one-pager. Most teams never build them, because doing it properly means rewriting the material for each format rather than pasting excerpts. That work is bounded, repeatable, and far cheaper than producing the research a second time.
Content Rewriting Services We Deliver
Every task has clear deliverables, fixed pricing, and a named editor.
Rewriting published pages
Website copy and product descriptions rewritten in place: same URL, same language, a stronger text against an approved objective.
- + Body copy rewritten per named URL
- + Message hierarchy aligned to one approved objective
- + Boilerplate and duplicate wording removed
- + Product descriptions rewritten to one tone template
- + Change log per page, section by section
Refreshing and re-dating articles
Published articles brought back to current: stale facts replaced, thin sections filled, structure kept, URL untouched.
- + Outdated facts, figures, and examples replaced
- + Thin sections rewritten against the approved objective
- + Sections retired when the topic moved on
- + Publication or last-modified date updated where the CMS allows
Editing and proofreading
Line editing and a final proofread of human-written source text in one language, priced per 10k words.
- + Clarity, logic, and flow edit on the source text
- + Grammar, punctuation, and typo pass
- + Terminology and house-style consistency
- + Tracked changes so you can see every edit
Repurposing and pruning
Strong source pieces rewritten into new formats, and weak pages merged into the one that deserves to survive.
- + One source piece rewritten into agreed new formats
- + Format-specific structure, length, and call to action
- + Thin and duplicate pages merged into a surviving URL
- + Redirect and canonical specification handed over
Rewrite What Exists vs Write New
The same page can be rewritten or replaced. The cost, the timeline, and the risk are different.
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Decision factor
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Write new
Content writing, from scratch
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Rewrite what exists
This scope of work
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| Cost per page | $267 per page of website copy produced from scratch. | $140 per page rewritten, because an approved source text and a live URL already exist. |
| Cost per article | $125 per newly produced blog post. | $80 per published article refreshed against an approved objective. |
| Elapsed time | A full production cycle per unit: research, outline, draft, review. | One editing cycle per unit. The research, the angle, and the structure are already on the page. |
| URL and history | A new URL with no age, no inbound links, and no measurement history. | The same URL keeps its age, its inbound links, and everything it has already earned. |
| Risk | Nothing to lose and nothing to keep. The page starts from zero. | A page that already performs can be made worse, so every change is logged and reversible. |
| When it wins | No page covers the topic, or the existing page was written for a different reader entirely. | The page exists, the topic still matters, and only the text is stale, thin, or duplicated. |
Rewrite first, produce second
When a published page still ranks, still has links, and only its text is out of date, rewriting it costs roughly half of producing the same unit from scratch and keeps everything the URL has earned. When no page covers the topic at all, start in the Content Writing scope instead.
Compare With Content WritingWhat Makes Our Content Rewriting Different
A named editor, a logged change set, and a price per page. Not a spinner and an open-ended rate.
A named editor, not a spinner
Every batch is assigned to a named editor who reads the source text, the objective, and the surrounding pages before changing a sentence. Software helps with research, terminology, and consistency checks; it never produces the text you publish, and no page is run through a rewriting generator.
- A named editor per batch, not an anonymous queue
- Human-written output, with tools used for research and checks only
- Source, objective, and neighbouring pages read before any edit
Every change logged and reversible
Rewriting a page that already performs carries real risk, so we make the work auditable. You get a change log per URL, section by section, and the original text preserved alongside it. If a rewrite underperforms, you can roll one section back without rebuilding the page.
- Change log per URL, section by section
- Original text preserved so any page can be rolled back
- One revision round and one QA pass in every tier
Priced per page, per article, per 10k words
The unit is a page, an article, a product, or 10k words, and the price for each volume tier is published before you order. There is no per-character rate, no hourly billing, and no open-ended retainer, so the cost of fixing your content inventory is knowable before the first page is touched.
- Fixed price per unit, published before you order
- No per-character rates and no open-ended hourly work
- Volume tiers you select yourself in the cart
From URL List to Rewritten Pages
Four steps. Clear deliverables at every stage. No surprises.
Inventory
You hand over the URL or file list, the objective for the batch, brand and tone references, and CMS access if we are publishing. Deciding which pages deserve the work is a content strategy or SEO research deliverable and can be completed first or supplied by your team.
- Named URL or file list per batch
- Objective, audience, and tone references
- Five to thirty units is the usual first batch
Decide
We read every included page against the objective and mark it rewrite, refresh, merge, or leave alone, then agree the treatment and the surviving URLs in writing before any text changes.
- Treatment recorded per included URL
- Merge map and surviving URLs agreed in writing
- Anything outside the batch named and priced separately
Rewrite
A named editor rewrites the approved units in the same language, keeping the URL, and records every replaced section in the change log as the work goes.
- Rewritten copy delivered in your format or CMS
- Change log per URL, section by section
- A single blog post typically takes two to three business days
Verify
One revision round per unit, then a QA pass against the approved objective and house style. You receive the change log and the before-and-after copy, so any movement after publication can be attributed to the rewrite.
- One revision round per included unit
- QA pass against the approved objective and house style
- Change log and before-and-after copy handed over
Other Content Scopes of Work
Content rewriting works best alongside these complementary scopes.
What Clients Say About Our Content Work
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Common Questions About Content Rewriting
Straight answers about scope, pricing, and delivery.
How do you update old blog posts for SEO?
Start from a named list of articles and one objective per batch. Each article is read against that objective, outdated facts and examples are replaced, thin sections are rewritten, sections the market has moved past are retired, and the publication or last-modified date is updated where the CMS allows it. The URL and the structure stay as they are, so the page keeps its age and its links. Blog Post Refresh starts at $400 for 5 articles.
How do you rewrite website content?
We take the named URL list and the approved objective, rewrite the body copy of each page in the same language on the same URL, and hand back a change log that records every replaced section plus one revision round. The Website Copy Rewrite tier starts at $700 for 5 pages. Title tags, meta descriptions, headings, and internal links are the On-Page SEO scope; body text is this one.
How much does content rewriting cost?
Website Copy Rewrite is $700 for 5 pages, $1,500 for 12, and $2,800 for 25. Blog Post Refresh starts at $400 for 5 articles, Product Description Rewrite at $600 for 50 products, Editing & Proofreading at $250 for 10k words, Content Repurposing at $450 for 3 source pieces, and Content Pruning & Consolidation at $400 for 50 pages. Published pricing covers one language and one primary country; each additional language adds 60% of the item base and each additional country adds 40%.
Will rewriting content hurt my rankings?
It can, which is why the work is bounded and auditable rather than wholesale. We keep the URL, keep the intent the page already satisfies, and change the text against an agreed objective instead of rebuilding the page. Every replaced section is written into a change log and the original text is preserved, so if a page underperforms after publication you can roll a single section back rather than the whole rewrite.
Should I change the URL when I rewrite a page?
Usually no. A rewrite that keeps the same reader and the same intent should keep the URL, because the age, the inbound links, and the measurement history are most of what makes the page worth rewriting. Change the URL only when the page becomes a genuinely different document, or when two pages merge into one. In both cases the redirect and canonical work itself is implemented in the Technical SEO scope; we deliver the specification.
What is content pruning in SEO?
Pruning is removing published pages that are too thin, too duplicated, or too outdated to earn their place, and merging what is worth keeping into a single surviving URL. On this page it is an execution task: you or your strategist supply the candidate list, and we deliver the merge map, the rewritten copy on the surviving pages, and the redirect specification. Content Pruning & Consolidation starts at $400 for 50 pages.
What is the difference between a content refresh and a content audit?
An audit decides which pages to fix and in what order. A refresh does the fixing. The audit is a Content Strategy deliverable and produces a ranked candidate list; this scope takes that list and rewrites the text. If you already know which pages are stale, you can start here directly. If you do not, run the audit first, because paying to rewrite the wrong hundred pages is the expensive mistake.
Rewriting vs repurposing: what is the difference?
Rewriting improves an existing page and leaves it where it is: same URL, same format, better text. Repurposing takes a strong source piece and rewrites it into different formats, such as a checklist, a newsletter, a social set, or a slide outline, while the original stays published. Both tasks live on this page and both start from material you already own. Rewriting is priced per page or article, repurposing per source piece.
Is AI-rewritten content bad for SEO?
Text generated by running a page through a rewriting tool is the problem, not the tooling itself. Spun output reads as filler, loses the specifics that made the original useful, and gives a search engine no reason to prefer the page. Our batches are assigned to a named editor who writes the published text; software is used for research, terminology, and consistency checks, and no page is put through a rewriting generator.
Content refresh vs new content: which is better?
If a page already exists, still covers a topic that matters, and only its text has aged, refreshing it is roughly half the per-unit cost of producing the same unit from scratch and keeps the URL's age and links. If no page covers the topic, or the existing page was written for a different reader, a refresh cannot rescue it and the work belongs in the Content Writing scope. The comparison table above has the per-unit numbers.
How often should you refresh old blog content?
Once a year is a reasonable baseline for evergreen articles, sooner for anything with prices, product details, regulations, or benchmark figures in it. Teams with a large archive usually run a fixed monthly batch instead of an annual sweep, which is why Blog Post Refresh can be ordered monthly as well as one-time: a steady five to fifteen articles a month keeps the archive current without a disruptive project.
How do you measure the impact of a content refresh?
The change log is the measurement instrument: it records what was replaced on which URL and on what date, so movement afterwards can be attributed to the rewrite instead of guessed at. Compare each refreshed URL against its own pre-refresh baseline over a 60 to 90 day window. Building the dashboards and the ongoing reporting itself is a separate analytics scope, not a deliverable here.
Start With Five Published Pages
Hand over five URLs and the objective for the batch. You get rewritten body copy on the same pages, a change log for every replaced section, one revision round, and a QA pass.
Delivery: 5-7 business days. One-time engagement. Editing and proofreading starts at $250 per 10k words.