The Case for Fewer, Better Articles

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There is no single fix for a stalled blog, but there is a reliable order of operations that most sites benefit from.

Anyone working through this should read Content Refresh Strategy: Updating Old Posts before making structural changes, because the reasoning there shapes everything downstream.

Anyone working through this should read Measuring Blog Performance Without Guesswork before making structural changes, because the reasoning there shapes everything downstream.

Anyone working through this should read Writing for Humans and Search Engines before making structural changes, because the reasoning there shapes everything downstream.

None of this requires new tooling. It requires deciding what to do and then doing it consistently for a quarter.