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The maintenance desk · working file

An independent maintenance desk for durable content

Not an agency, not a course, not a growth-hack feed. One desk, one question: after AI answers the basics, which pages still deserve to exist — and what keeps them worth a click?

A marked-up article page with kept lines highlighted, cut lines struck through, and a KEEP revision stamp
How every page here gets treated eventually: marked up, re-checked, and stamped.

  1. 01 Why this exists

    Most SEO advice ages badly, and after AI Overviews a lot of it aged overnight. Publishers are left guessing which posts to keep, cut, merge, or refresh — usually with a spreadsheet and a bad feeling. This site is the working manual for that decision, kept current so you don’t have to re-derive it.

  2. 02 Who it helps

    Founders, operators, solo publishers, and content leads with an existing library and limited editorial time. If you have a hundred posts and one afternoon a month to maintain them, these guides are scoped to you.

  3. 03 Our publishing rule

    One rule, applied before anything ships: a guide must help you make a keep/cut/merge/refresh decision you couldn’t make from an AI summary alone. That means first-hand checks, dated facts, primary sources for anything about ranking systems, and a direct answer at the top. If a draft can’t clear that bar, it stays in the drawer.

  4. 04 What gets rejected

    Some drafts don’t make it out of review. Recurring reasons:

    • Promises of rankings, traffic numbers, or guaranteed outcomes.
    • AI-panic takes and futurism with no decision attached.
    • Vague thought leadership that survives an AI summary intact.
    • Claims about search systems we can’t source or date.
    • Keyword grabs outside the one topic this desk covers.

  5. 05 How a guide is maintained

    Publishing is the start, not the end. Every guide carries a last-checked date and moves through the same loop:

    1. Drafted — written against the publishing rule.
    2. Sourced — time-sensitive claims linked to primary sources.
    3. Reviewed — a human pass before anything is public.
    4. Re-checked — pulled back when AI Overviews or SERP behaviour shift, then re-dated or revised.
    5. Cut or merged — when a guide stops earning its place, we apply our own rule to it.

    The review badge and date on each guide are the honest state of that loop — not decoration. No named experts, no invented credentials: trust the dates, the sources, and the visible method instead.