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Create a "glossary" or "terminology" page

3-6 hrImpact: highEffort: medium

A glossary or terminology page defines the key terms in your field clearly — genuinely useful reference content that AI systems can extract definitions from when answering "what does X mean" style questions.

Definition-style content maps directly onto how AI systems answer terminology questions, making a well-built glossary a specifically citable resource.

The full picture

A glossary page fills a genuine gap that most business content leaves unaddressed — the terminology that insiders in an industry use fluently but that confuses or excludes outsiders trying to understand it. This content maps directly onto a specific, common category of question AI systems field constantly: definitional questions about what a specific term actually means, which a well-built glossary directly and comprehensively answers.

The genuine value of this content depends on choosing terms that are actually confusing to a real outsider, not terms that feel important to the business but that any reasonably informed reader would already understand. The test worth applying to each candidate term: would a genuinely new customer, encountering this term for the first time in your marketing or service descriptions, need it explained to fully understand what you're offering? Terms that pass this test are genuinely worth defining; terms that don't add unnecessary bulk without adding real value.

The definitions themselves need to actually clarify rather than restate the confusion in different words — a definition using equally unfamiliar jargon to explain a jargon term provides little real value, however technically accurate it might be. The genuine discipline here is writing for someone who has zero prior familiarity with the term, using plain, accessible language even when the underlying concept itself is genuinely technical or complex.

Organization for reference use — alphabetical ordering, clear individual headings per term, easy scanability — matters for whether this content actually functions as a useful reference rather than simply a list of paragraphs someone has to read start to finish to find the one definition they actually need. A well-organized glossary invites the kind of targeted, specific reference use that makes it genuinely valuable as ongoing source material, rather than something read once and forgotten.

How to do it

  1. 1
    List the real terms your industry uses
    Ones that would genuinely confuse an outsider.
  2. 2
    Write clear, jargon-free definitions
    The point is making a confusing term clear, not defining jargon with more jargon.
  3. 3
    Structure for easy reference
    Alphabetical or categorized, clear headers.

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How you will know it is done

A glossary page exists with clear, genuinely useful definitions of key industry terms.

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