Last updated: 24 October 2026
This page explains how guides on AtoZTools are researched, written, checked and corrected — and what our byline means — so you can judge how much weight to give them.
Who writes the guides
Guides are published under the byline AtoZTools Editorial Team. That is a team byline, not a pen name for an invented person: it means the guide was produced by the same team that builds and maintains the tools, and that the team — not a named individual — takes responsibility for it. We do not publish fabricated author biographies, headshots or credentials.
How articles are researched
Research starts from primary sources: official documentation and standards such as Google Search Central documentation, MDN, the relevant RFCs, schema.org and W3C specifications, and the official documentation of any tool or format being described. Where a claim rests on a source, the article links it, and guides carry a references list so you can check the claim yourself. Secondary commentary is used to understand what readers are asking — never as the source of a factual claim we could not verify at the source.
Examples are tested, not imagined
Worked examples in our guides and tool pages are run before publication: redirect chains are captured with a checker, robots.txt and sitemap samples are validated against the rules they describe, and numbers quoted from a tool's output come from an actual run of that tool on the example data. If an example uses demonstration data, it is labelled as such. We do not publish screenshots, statistics or results that were not produced the way the page describes.
Second-pass review before publication
Every article goes through a second-pass review that is separate from the pass that drafted it: the drafting pass never approves its own work. The reviewer checks factual claims against the primary sources, re-runs or re-verifies the worked examples and their numbers, tests the links, and reads for claims the evidence does not support. The checks performed on each piece, and the fixes the review produces, are recorded on an editorial sheet kept with the article's working files. An article that fails review is fixed or held — it is not published on schedule pressure.
As a matter of standing policy, we describe that process exactly as it is: at present, drafting and second-pass review are carried out with AI assistance, and the second-pass reviews recorded on the editorial sheets are independent AI review passes. No human editor has yet reviewed the published guides. A named human reviewer is to be designated by the site owner; until that designation is made and that review has taken place, we do not claim human review for any guide, and the "Last reviewed" date on an article records the second-pass review described here.
No fabricated evidence
We do not invent statistics, testimonials, user counts, case studies or first-hand experience we have not had. If we have not measured something, we either say so on the page or leave it out. Tool limitations are published, not hidden, on the Tool Limitations page.
Use of AI assistance
Honesty requires saying this plainly: drafting and research assistance tools, including AI tools, are used in preparing our content. Nothing is published on the strength of that assistance alone. Every published guide has been put through the second-pass review described above — an independent AI review pass, with its fixes recorded — and checked against primary sources and tested examples before publication. Human review of the guides is pending the site owner's designation of a named human reviewer, as stated above; we do not describe the review our guides have received as human review. The byline stands behind the final text.
Corrections and updates
If you find an error, tell us via the contact page or at contact@atoztools.pro. Verified errors are corrected. Where a correction changes something a reader may have acted on, the correction is made visibly in the article rather than silently.
Every article shows its publication date and a "Last reviewed" date. The reviewed date moves only when the article has been substantively re-checked — sources re-verified, examples re-run where behaviour may have changed — not for cosmetic edits. Guides are re-reviewed when the underlying documentation, standards or tools change in ways that could make them stale.
Commercial independence
Guides are written to answer the reader's question, not to sell a product. We do not accept payment for coverage, publish sponsored articles, or let advertising considerations decide what a guide concludes. Where the site earns money in future it will be from clearly separated advertising, as described in the Privacy Policy.