Your content workflow has no SEO gate before publish

Your content workflow has no SEO gate before publish
Writer writes, editor edits, hit publish. Nobody checks the title tag, the H1, the internal links, or whether the target query is even in the page. We were shipping blind and wondering why rankings were random.

Added a 5-minute pre-publish gate, non-negotiable:
— Target query in title, H1, and first 100 words?
— 3 internal links out, 2 older pages linking in?
— Meta description written (not auto-truncated)?
— Slug short and clean, no dates?

Five minutes before publish saves a month of wondering. Build the gate.