Content Marketing
Blog Writing and Article Production
Turns an approved topic list into published pages every month
- Timeline
- A steady cycle of roughly three weeks from brief to publish, running monthly
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Blog and article production is the ongoing work of turning approved topics into finished, published pages. That covers research, interviews with your team, writing, editing, images, on page SEO, and upload. It is the step that runs after strategy decides what to write, and before optimization improves what already exists.
The problem
Production is where most content programs die. The owner meant to write. The office manager was assigned it and has a real job. The freelancer produced 800 words of generic advice that could have been about any company in any city. Or the agency hit its quota with pieces that read fine and say nothing, because nobody ever asked a technician a question. The result is a blog full of pages that no reader finishes and no search engine has a reason to rank.
What it is
Production is a pipeline with fixed stages. Every piece starts as a brief. The brief names the target query, the search intent behind it, the angle, and the outline. It also names the internal links the piece must carry and the specific facts we need from you. Writers draft against the brief. When a piece needs trade knowledge, we book a fifteen minute call with your tech or estimator. On that call we pull direct quotes and real numbers. An editor then cuts filler, checks claims, and holds the reading level. After that, images or diagrams get made, on page elements get set, and internal links get placed. The piece goes live in your CMS with the right schema. You approve at the draft stage, not after publish.
Signs you need this
- Your blog has not been updated in more than six months
- You approved a topic list months ago and nothing has been written
- Articles you paid for could have been published by any competitor unchanged
- The owner is the bottleneck because writing keeps landing back on their desk
- Published posts have no images, no internal links, and no author byline
What is included
- Content brief per article with target query, outline, angle, and required internal links
- Fifteen minute subject matter interviews with your techs, estimators, or owner
- Drafted articles at an agreed monthly count and word range
- Editorial pass for accuracy, reading level, and filler removal
- Custom images, diagrams, or annotated job photos for each piece
- Title tag, meta description, heading structure, and Article or FAQPage schema
- Internal links placed both into the new piece and from existing pages
- Publishing directly into WordPress, Webflow, or your CMS of choice
- One round of revisions per piece before publish
- Author bio and credential markup so pieces carry a real byline
Our process
Brief the Piece
Days 1 to 3 of each cycleWe write a brief before a writer touches it: the query, what the current top results cover, what they miss, the outline, the word range, and the exact facts we need from your team. Briefs are the difference between usable drafts and rewrites.
Pull the Real Details
Days 3 to 6 of each cycleFor anything technical we record a short call with someone who does the writing work. Fifteen minutes with a service manager produces details no writer could invent, like which brand fails first in Inland Empire heat or what a city inspector actually flags.
Draft and Edit
Days 6 to 14 of each cycleWriting happens against the brief, then a separate editor cuts it. The editing pass usually removes 15 to 20 percent of the words. Anything that could appear on a competitor site without changing a word gets flagged and replaced.
Review and Approve
Days 14 to 18 of each cycleYou see drafts in a shared doc with comments enabled. One revision round is included. We ask you to check facts and pricing claims specifically, since those are what put a company at risk.
Publish and Link
Days 18 to 22 of each cycleThe piece goes live with images, schema, and internal links in both directions. We also update two or three older pages to point at the new one, which is the step that makes a library compound instead of accumulate.
Realistic timeline: A steady cycle of roughly three weeks from brief to publish, running monthly. The first month usually takes a week longer while voice and formatting get dialed in.
What goes in a brief before a writer starts
A weak brief is the reason drafts come back wrong. Nothing leaves our desk without these filled in.
The exact query the piece targets
One main query plus two or three close variants.
What the top five results already say
So the draft does not repeat what is everywhere.
The gap we are filling
The one thing every ranking page leaves out.
A heading by heading outline
Written as the questions a reader asks, in order.
The facts we need from you
Price bands, permit rules, brands, common failures.
Internal links in and out
Which pages this links to, and which older pages link here.
The word range and the reason for it
Tied to the question, never to a monthly quota.
How we judge it in 90 days
Impressions, clicks, calls, or a snippet.
Where the three weeks actually go
Each piece moves through five stages. The one that slips is almost always your review, so the schedule is built around it.
You are on the hook for about 45 minutes across the whole cycle. If review runs past day 18, next month starts late, so we chase it on day 15 instead of day 19.
Getting fifteen useful minutes out of a busy tech
Techs hate meetings and they are right to. So we do not hold one. We call while they are driving between jobs, record it with permission, and ask five questions we sent ahead.
The questions are always concrete. What fails first on this system in Inland Empire heat. What does the city inspector flag. What do homeowners always get wrong about the price. What would you tell your own mother to do here. What job do you wish people would stop calling about.
Fifteen minutes of that gives a writer details nobody could invent, and those details are the reason the page beats a competitor's. If nobody is free one month, we still publish. The piece is just thinner, and we say so.
What the editing pass takes out
A first draft usually loses 15 to 20 percent of its words in editing. Almost none of that is trimming for style. It is deleting sentences that say nothing.
The first cut is the throat clearing. Openings that tell you your home is your biggest investment, or that a working AC matters in summer. Readers know. The answer moves up into the first two sentences.
The second cut is anything that could sit on a competitor's site unchanged. If a paragraph would work for any company in any city, it is filler. It either gets a real number, a real example, and a real place name, or it goes.