Red flags refer to glaring issues in a story that are severe enough to reject the story outright without further review. Meaning until these things are fixed/addressed, we can’t publish it so it isn’t worth editing further.

List of Red Flags:

  1. Subject Matter
  2. Plagiarism
  3. Sources and Citation
  4. Formatting
  5. Grammar
  6. Length

Editing Protocol Index:

  1. Editing Protocol Overview

    1. Second Human Rule

      1. Verified Writers

    2. Time to Review

  2. Standards of Quality

    1. Originality Score
    2. 6 Ws Score
    3. Objectivity in ranked listicles
    4. Unranked listicles
    5. Actionable advice

  3. Red Flags

    1. Subject Matter

      1. Subject matter saturation

    2. Plagiarism

    3. Sources and Citations

    4. Formatting is bad or broken

    5. Grammar level: gibberish

    6. Story is Too Short

  4. Backlink Rules & Guidelines

    1. Backlink Limits

    2. Backlink quality and diversity

      1. Diversity of sources
      2. Internal linking
      3. Changing links

    3. Reposting and Canonical Linking

      1. Canonical links to company domain
      2. Canonical links to blog networks or social networks