Content Refresher
Search engines reward fresh, accurate content. The Content Refresher automatically monitors your published articles, assigns each one a decay score, and gives you the tools to keep every post ranking at its best. You can refresh content manually, snooze articles you want to revisit later, or let Articfly handle everything on autopilot.
Open the refresher from your dashboard at app.articfly.com/dashboard/refresher.
Decay Scores
Every published article receives a decay score on a scale from 0 to 100. The higher the score, the more urgently the article needs attention. Articfly groups scores into five bands so you can prioritize at a glance:
How Scoring Works
Articfly scans your articles on a regular schedule. Each scan evaluates several signals and combines them into a single decay score:
- Age of the article — older content naturally drifts further from current search intent and trending topics.
- Outdated information — references to old dates, deprecated tools, or superseded statistics increase the score.
- Broken links — dead outbound links hurt user experience and signal neglect to search engines.
- Content depth — articles that are significantly shorter or less comprehensive than competing pages receive higher scores.
Scores are recalculated periodically, so a refreshed article will see its score drop back toward zero on the next scan cycle.
Available Actions
The refresher dashboard lists all published articles alongside their current decay score. For each article you can take one of three actions:
Refresh
Triggers a full content regeneration. Articfly rewrites the article using the latest data while preserving your original topic, keywords, and URL. The refreshed version is automatically published to your connected WordPress site, replacing the old content. This is the primary way to bring a stale article back to life.
Snooze
Temporarily hides the article from the refresher for a set number of days. Use snooze when you know the content is still valid despite its score, or when you plan to update it manually later. Snoozed articles will reappear automatically once the snooze period expires.
Unsnooze
Cancels an active snooze and returns the article to the refresher list immediately. Useful if your plans changed and you want the article to be eligible for refresh again.
Auto-Refresh Settings
For a fully hands-off workflow, enable auto-refresh. When turned on, Articfly will automatically regenerate and republish any article whose decay score exceeds your configured threshold, without requiring manual intervention.
Auto-refresh will only process articles that meet all of the following conditions:
- The article is older than your configured minimum age
- The decay score is at or above your configured threshold
- The article is not currently snoozed
- Auto-refresh is enabled in your preferences
Preferences
You can fine-tune the refresher behavior from the preferences panel at the top of the refresher page. Three settings control how the system operates:
check_older_than_days
The minimum age (in days) an article must have before it appears in the refresher. Articles younger than this value are excluded from decay scoring entirely. This prevents newly published content from being flagged prematurely.
min_decay_score
The minimum decay score an article must reach before it is eligible for auto-refresh. Articles below this threshold will still appear in the dashboard for manual review, but auto-refresh will skip them. A higher value means only the most decayed content gets refreshed automatically.
auto_refresh
A boolean toggle that enables or disables automatic refreshing. When set to true, Articfly will process eligible articles without waiting for you to click Refresh. When false, the refresher operates in manual-only mode.
Tip: Start with auto-refresh disabled and a moderate threshold (around 60) to get a feel for how decay scores map to your content. Once you are comfortable with the scoring, enable auto-refresh and let Articfly maintain your blog automatically.