Content Marketing
Written once, found every month after. The questions your customers in metro Detroit and across Michigan already ask, answered on a page they can find, sourced, in your voice, and measured by the calls it brings.
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The questions your Michigan business already answers across the counter, written down once, sourced, published to a calendar you can keep, linked into a structure, and measured by the calls each page produces.
- Topics from your call log and inbox, not a keyword tool
- Every figure sourced, every Michigan specific checked
- Published under your name, read by you first
- Measured by calls per page, refreshed quarterly
Why most pages are never read
Almost every page ever written answers nothing anyone asked.
Ahrefs looked at fourteen billion pages and found that 96.55% of them receive no visits from Google at all. Three reasons: nobody searches for the topic, nobody links to the page, or it is the wrong kind of page for the question. All three are decided before a word is written.
So we start at the desk. The question your front desk answers ten times a week has demand behind it by definition. We write the answer once, properly, sourced to the county or the statute, in your voice, and put the next step at the end. Then we measure the page by the calls it brings, and the questions that arrive next month become next month’s pages.
Illustrative. The bars are the shape, not a forecast. A page written to a real question keeps answering it long after the month it was written.
- 96.55%
- of pages on the web receive no visits at all from Google search
- 14 billion
- pages in the study that found it, and three reasons: no demand, no links, or the wrong kind of page
Ahrefs, How Many Pages Get No Traffic From Google, 2023.
In the work
The question, the page, the structure, the measure
Questions from your desk, not a keyword tool
The call log, the inbox, the thing the front desk explains ten times a week. Those are the questions with demand behind them. Search data confirms the wording; it does not choose the topic.
Written by someone who checked
Every figure sourced to its origin and named in the text. Every Michigan specific, the county office, the statute, the season, verified rather than assumed. A page that is wrong once is not trusted twice.
Every page has a job
One question answered completely, with the next step at the end: the calculator, the service page, the phone number. Pages are linked into a structure, the broad guide to the specific answers, so each one lifts the others.
Published to a schedule you can keep
A calendar built to the Michigan seasons and to the pace you can review at, because a page you have not read should not carry your name. Volume is set with you and is never a package.
Your voice, your byline
Written the way you explain it across the counter, under your name, with a photograph of you if you will allow it. The page is the owner explaining, at scale.
Measured by calls, not views
Which page produced the call, the form, the booking. Views are reported because they explain the calls, never instead of them. A refresh every quarter keeps the dates honest and the facts current.
Getting there
Listen, map, write and check, publish, measure
- 01
Listen for a month
Every question that reaches the desk, the inbox and the phone, written down. Most businesses have never seen the list, and it is the whole content plan.
- 02
Plan the map
The broad guides and the specific answers under them, the calendar against the Michigan seasons, and the job each page is for.
- 03
Write and check
Drafted, sourced, checked against the sources, read by you. Nothing goes live under your name that you have not read.
- 04
Publish and link
Into the structure, with the next step at the end and the internal links in place, so each page is found and each page sends the reader on.
- 05
Measure and refresh
Calls by page, monthly. Facts and dates refreshed quarterly. The questions that arrive next month become next month's pages.
Fitted work
What comes up here, specifically
The uncapping question
Every Michigan buyer asks what happens to the tax bill after closing, and almost no agent's site answers it. Ours does, with the arithmetic shown, and it is the page assistants and buyers both find. That is the shape of the work for any trade.
The permit question
Whether a furnace, a deck, a fence or a water heater needs a permit in Oakland, Wayne or Macomb County is asked of every contractor weekly. One page per question, sourced to the county building department, answered once.
The seasons
Furnaces in October, potholes and suspensions in March, snow contracts in September, the lake house opening in April. The calendar is written to when Michigan asks, not to a national content plan.
Two languages
The same question, answered in Arabic for Dearborn and in Spanish for southwest Detroit, written rather than machine-translated, because the reader can tell.
The uncapping page is live: Michigan property tax uncapping, explained with the arithmetic. It is the shape of every page we write.
Right time when
When this is worth doing
A good fit
- The same questions reach the desk every week and the site answers none of them
- There is a blog with six posts from three years ago
- Competitors are found for the questions you know the answers to
- You can read a page a fortnight before it goes out
Not a fit
- Nobody asks questions before buying what you sell
- You want volume for its own sake, which we will not produce
- Nobody at the business will read what goes out under its name
Scope
What we do not write
Generate pages in bulk
No five hundred city pages, no articles produced by the dozen to fill a calendar. Google's spam policies name this practice, and a reader names it faster.
Write what we cannot source
No statistic without a named source and a year, no claim about a Michigan rule without the statute or the office behind it. If it cannot be checked, it is cut.
Write for the calendar
A page with no question behind it is not written, even when the calendar says a page is due. An empty month is better than a page that answers nothing.
Reasonable to ask
Before you commission it
Do you use AI to write the pages?
AI tools are used in drafting and research the way a writer uses an assistant. Every statistic is checked against its source, every Michigan specific is verified, and you read every page before it goes live under your name. Nothing is generated in bulk and nothing is published unread.
How often do you publish?
At the pace you can review, set with you and adjusted from what the calls show. Volume is never a package. A business with four good questions a quarter does better with four good pages than with sixteen thin ones.
Who owns the pages?
You do. They live on your site, under your name, and stay there if we stop working together. Nothing is hosted anywhere you do not control.
What is the difference between a blog post and a service page?
A service page says what you do and asks for the call. A post answers a question the customer has before they know they need you, and sends them to the service page when it fits. Both are needed; the post is how the customer finds the service page.
How do you know a page worked?
By the calls, forms and bookings it produced, traced back to the page. Views are reported because they explain the calls. A page with views and no calls is rewritten or retired.
Send us the ten questions you answer most.
From memory is fine. We will tell you which of them your site already answers, which your competitors answer, and which would be found the month they were written.
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