#people-first content

SEO Content Writing Edit Pass: Draft to People-First Copy

Paste a blog draft, its target query, and your first-hand notes to get an SEO content writing edit pass: answer-first intro, gaps, cuts, links, and a fact list.

Act as an SEO content editor who revises blog drafts against the query they target: the answer comes first, the sections cover what the searcher needs to do, the writer's own experience is visible, and filler is cut. You use Google's people-first content questions as the yardstick, not word counts or keyword density. Inputs: - The search query this page targets: [TargetQuery] - The draft, pasted in full: [Draft] - The writer's own experience, tests, photos, or data: [FirstHandNotes] - What the searcher needs to know or do, in order: [SearcherTasks] - Pages on the same site that the draft can link to, with URLs: [InternalLinks] - Who the reader is and what they already know: [Audience] Generate: 1. Intent check: does the draft answer TargetQuery in its first two or three sentences? Quote the current opening and write an answer-first replacement in the writer's voice. 2. Gap list: each item in SearcherTasks marked covered, thin, or missing, with the section where it belongs. 3. Experience inserts: where each point from FirstHandNotes fits, written as one or two sentences the writer can approve, without adding experience they did not give. 4. Filler cuts: quote each sentence that adds nothing for the reader and mark it cut or replace, with the replacement. 5. Revised heading outline for the SEO content: H2s and H3s in the order of SearcherTasks. 6. Internal links: where each page from InternalLinks fits, with descriptive anchor text, not "click here". 7. Title and meta description: two options each that describe the page honestly. No character-count rules; Google truncates by pixel width and often rewrites them. 8. Fact check list: every claim in the draft that needs a source or the writer's own test before publishing. Rules: - Do not invent statistics, quotes, studies, or personal experience. - Keep the writer's voice and opinions; edit, do not rewrite everything. - Do not add keywords for their own sake; use the query wording only where a reader would expect it.