How To Write A Content Style Guide People Actually Follow
A 40-page style guide gets read once. What belongs in a one-page version, what to leave to judgement, and how to make the rules enforceable.
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A 40-page style guide gets read once. What belongs in a one-page version, what to leave to judgement, and how to make the rules enforceable.
Read article →The format is not the problem. Twelve interchangeable entries written from other people's marketing pages is. How to make a list post worth publishing.
Read article →Search engines rewrite most of them, which is exactly why the ones that survive matter. What to promise, what to cut, and the length that actually displays.
Read article →Open rates are now unreliable and the first line matters more than the subject. What to put in the preview text, and the structure that keeps subscribers.
Read article →Alt text is written for someone who cannot see the image, not for a crawler. The decision tree, the cases where empty is correct, and the keyword mistake.
Read article →Most FAQ blocks are padding with a schema tag attached. What makes a question worth answering, and the formatting rules that decide whether it parses.
Read article →Your H1 and your title tag are read in different places by different people. Why one string for both usually fails, and how to write each one.
Read article →Read more is a wasted link. How to choose which pages to link, where in the paragraph to put them, and what the anchor text should say.
Read article →Programmatic pages are not automatically spam, and hand-written ones are not automatically safe. The test Google applies, and how to stay on the right side.
Read article →The internet decided one punctuation mark exposes machine writing. The measurements say otherwise, and the real tells are harder to spot and harder to fake.
Read article →Volatility without a confirmed update is now common. The boring explanations to rule out first, in order, before you rewrite pages that were fine.
Read article →The LinkedIn voice became a joke for specific, fixable reasons. Here is what makes a post read as parody, and how to keep the format without the cringe.
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