# **🔍 Overview**

When you update your **Knowledge Graph** in Search Atlas, OTTO needs to re-evaluate your site to generate fresh recommendations based on the new information. This article explains exactly how that process works, what happens automatically, and when you need to take manual action.

# **⚙️ How OTTO Re-Scanning Works**

OTTO does **not** automatically re-scan your site on a daily schedule after a Knowledge Graph update. Instead, re-scanning is **triggered manually** by you whenever you are ready to apply updated recommendations. This gives you full control over when OTTO processes your latest Knowledge Graph data — so you are never caught off guard by unexpected changes to your recommendations.

Here is what the process looks like from start to finish:

1. **Update your Knowledge Graph** — Add, edit, or remove entities, relationships, or attributes inside your Knowledge Graph.
2. **Navigate to OTTO** — In the left sidebar, go to **OTTO SEO**, then open **All Sites (SEO Automation)** (URL: `/seo-automation-v3`).
3. **Trigger a manual re-scan** — Initiate a new scan from within the OTTO dashboard. OTTO will pull in your latest Knowledge Graph data and regenerate recommendations accordingly.
4. **Review updated recommendations** — Once the scan completes, your recommendations will reflect all changes made to the Knowledge Graph.

# **💡 Why Manual Triggering Instead of Automatic?**

Manual triggering is intentional by design. Here is why this approach benefits you:

- **You stay in control.** Knowledge Graph updates can be incremental — you may make several edits over a few days before you are ready to push them into your SEO recommendations. Manual triggering lets you batch those changes.
- **No unexpected recommendation shifts.** Automatic daily re-scans could alter your active recommendations without warning. Manual control means changes only happen when you decide.
- **Predictable workflow.** You can align re-scans with your content or publishing schedule rather than relying on a background process.

# **🛠️ Step-by-Step: Triggering a Re-Scan After a Knowledge Graph Update**

1. Finish all edits to your **Knowledge Graph** before triggering a scan — this ensures OTTO processes your complete set of changes in one pass.
2. In the left sidebar, click **OTTO SEO**, then open **All Sites (SEO Automation)** (`/seo-automation-v3`).
3. Locate the site or project you want to re-scan.
4. Click the **Scan** (or **Run diagnostics**) button for that project.
5. Wait for the scan to complete — scan time varies depending on site size.
6. Review your new recommendations and deploy or approve any changes as needed.

# **📊 What Changes After a Re-Scan?**

After OTTO completes a re-scan using your updated Knowledge Graph, you can expect the following to refresh:

- **On-page recommendations** — Titles, meta descriptions, headings, and body content suggestions updated to reflect new entities and relationships.
- **Schema markup suggestions** — Structured data recommendations aligned with your revised Knowledge Graph.
- **Internal linking opportunities** — New or adjusted link suggestions based on updated topic clusters.
- **Content gap insights** — Any new gaps identified from additional Knowledge Graph entities.

# **✅ Best Practices**

- Make all Knowledge Graph edits **before** triggering a re-scan to avoid running multiple scans unnecessarily.
- Re-scan after any **significant** Knowledge Graph update — adding new core entities, restructuring relationships, or changing your primary topic focus.
- For minor edits (fixing a typo, small attribute update), you can batch several small changes together and re-scan once.
- Keep a note of what you changed in the Knowledge Graph each time so you can verify the updated recommendations make sense.

# **💬 Need More Help?**

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