🧭 What Is the Manual Reprocess Button?

The manual reprocess button is a dedicated control inside your OTTO project that lets you trigger a fresh analysis of your site's SEO data on demand. It is not the same as the Recrawl Site option in Site Auditor, and it is separate from OTTO's standard crawl feature. If a support tool or article pointed you toward either of those, this article will guide you to the correct button.

📍 Where to Find the Manual Reprocess Button

1. Log in to Search Atlas and click OTTO SEO in the left sidebar, then open All Sites (SEO Automation) inside it. This opens the OTTO dashboard at /seo-automation-v3.
2. Select the OTTO project you want to reprocess from your project list.
3. Once inside the project (OTTO Grader), scroll to the Recommendations section and look for the manual reprocess button.
4. Click the button to trigger reprocessing for that project.

⏱️ Cooldown Period — Important Timing Rule

OTTO enforces a mandatory 1-hour cooldown between manual reprocess actions. If you click the button and nothing happens, or the button appears inactive, it means a reprocess was already triggered within the last 60 minutes. You must wait for the full hour to pass before the button becomes available again.

• The cooldown applies per project, not per account.
• Automated reprocessing that OTTO runs on its own also counts toward the cooldown timer.
• There is no way to override or skip the cooldown period.

🔍 Manual Reprocess vs. Other Crawl Features

It is easy to confuse similar-sounding features in Search Atlas. Here is a quick comparison to help you use the right tool:

• Manual Reprocess (OTTO project) — Re-analyzes your site's SEO data within your active OTTO project. Use this when you want OTTO to reflect recent changes you have made to your site.
• Recrawl Site (Site Auditor) — Initiates a new technical crawl of your website inside the Site Auditor tool. This updates audit data such as broken links, missing tags, and page errors, but does not trigger OTTO reprocessing.
• OTTO Crawl — A background crawl that OTTO manages automatically as part of its ongoing optimization cycle. This runs on its own schedule and is separate from the on-demand manual reprocess.

✅ When to Use Manual Reprocessing

Trigger a manual reprocess when:

• You have recently published or updated pages and want OTTO to recognize those changes immediately.
• You deployed new meta titles, descriptions, or structured data and want OTTO's recommendations to reflect the current state of your site.
• OTTO's displayed data seems out of sync with your live site content.

🛠️ Troubleshooting

• Button is greyed out or unclickable — The 1-hour cooldown is still active. Check when the last reprocess was triggered and wait until 60 minutes have passed.
• Button is not visible — Confirm you are inside an OTTO project, not on the Site Auditor or another tool. Navigate to OTTO SEO in the left sidebar, open All Sites (SEO Automation), and re-enter your project.
• Reprocessing completed but data looks unchanged — Allow a few minutes for the updated data to fully load. Refresh the page after 2–3 minutes to see the latest results.

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