How Blogo works
What holds a draft, and what is only a suggestion
Blogo’s final review puts every finding into one of two groups. The first group must be settled before the draft can be sent to WordPress: things that would be wrong, unsupported, broken or invented. The second group is suggestions about how the page reads, and they never stop you. There is no overall rating: a single unsettled item in the first group holds the draft, however good the rest is.
Facts and figures that hold a draft
These come from the fact check and the figure check.
- A statement the web check found wrong or out of date.
- A statement about health, safety, law or certification that could not be confirmed.
- A figure that is in neither your own answers and brand details nor on the page linked in its sentence.
- A fact check that was never run, or was run on an earlier version of the text.
Content that holds a draft
These are found by code reading the draft, your answers and your site’s other articles.
- A named person or a customer story that your own answers do not contain.
- A sentence of ten words or more that already appears, word for word, in two or more other articles on your site.
- Too little that is new. When Blogo has read at least three ranking pages, the draft must contain at least three things they do not say. Only two things count: a sourced figure none of them states, and a sentence built on one of your answers.
- A structure your writing plan requires, such as a comparison table or a checklist, that is missing.
- A statement that breaks one of your brand rules.
- No real author. The site needs a named person behind its articles, not a blank or a placeholder.
Links and pictures that hold a draft
Links and pictures are tested against the exact text being sent.
- A dead link.
- A link to a site on your do-not-link list.
- Fewer links to your own published pages than required: two, or fewer when your site has fewer suitable pages.
- A picture without a passed visual check for that position, or without a source and licence credit.
- On a landing or category page, a link to another business.
What is only a suggestion
Suggestions appear in the review under a heading that says they are optional. They do not disable the send button.
- A figure-free statement on an ordinary subject that no page was found to back. The suggestion is to remove it or say it as your own view.
- A confirmed statement on a sensitive subject, flagged for a second look.
- Writing habits: stock phrases, too many qualifiers such as “typically”, too many dashes, paragraphs that open with a textbook definition, the exact keyword repeated too often, sentences that all start the same way.
- The main keyword missing from the title or a heading, or a related keyword missing from the text.
- An FAQ section missing although real search questions exist, or present although none were found.
- Source quality: no official or institutional source among the outside links, or a weak one where a stronger one would help.
What you can do about a held draft
Many holds can be cleared by the automatic fix: wrong values, figures without a source, invented stories, repeated sentences. It also tidies the writing habits listed above in the same pass, although they would not have held the draft.
One hold cannot be fixed by rewriting. If the page lacks new information, the review asks you to answer another question from your own experience, or to add a source with data the ranking pages do not cite. Blogo does not run a paid rewrite for this, because a rewrite cannot produce facts that are not there.
Brand-rule holds are yours to decide: rewrite the draft, or edit the rule if the rule is what is out of date.
Questions
Can I send a held draft to WordPress anyway?
Does a longer article pass more easily?
Why would a sentence repeated across my site hold a draft?
What if Blogo could not read the ranking pages?
If I edit the text myself, do the checks still count?
See the review on a real draft
Add your website and open the final review for your first article. Blogo is in a free, invite-only pilot.