Meta-tagged navigation in IA

Pre-set informed navigation is the smart content workflow decision for better search and update results.
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By tagging content with consistent metadata and embedding filters into your IA workflow, you vastly improved finding correct documents at the right time and maintaining an evergreen doc stack.  Improvements from adding

IA with tagged navigation:

• Trims procedural bloat, keeps it readable.
• ​Shifts voice back toward your crisp, business-oriented style.
• Balances practicality with executive clarity.
• Keeps cause-effect framing strong for ROI.

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GOAL
Strive to align internal and external communication with business objectives.
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Every new doc needs a metadata block. Example:

• audience: developer 
• content_type: api_spec
• product: payments version: v2.1
• lifecycle: evergreen

1. Bake this into your template.
2. Train authors to fill it in.