A guide is only worth reading if you can trust what it tells you to do. This page is the standard every article on 9sBlog is held to — how a piece is researched, how its facts are checked before it goes live, how mistakes are put right, and why nobody can pay to change what an article says.
How we choose what to cover
The focus is deliberately narrow: Android and Windows, the software most people run on them, and the phones and hardware behind them. We write about the problems you would actually troubleshoot on your own device. We do not chase trending topics for traffic, and we do not publish on subjects we cannot cover well. A site that tries to be about everything is an authority on nothing.
How an article is researched
Every piece starts with the facts, not the writing. Before a word of a guide is drafted, the details are gathered from primary and official sources — the vendor's own documentation, the release notes, and the actual settings on the platform the article names. A how-to states the exact menus, keys and version it applies to, so you can tell at a glance whether it matches what is in front of you. When a figure — a price, a system limit, a version number — cannot be verified, the article says so rather than inventing a confident one.
How facts are checked before publishing
No article goes live on a single pass. Once a draft is written, it is checked a second time against those same sources by a separate review whose only job is to find what is wrong: a step that changed with the last update, a claim that overreaches, a menu that has since moved. A piece is published only after that accuracy check comes back clean. Being right matters more than being first, so a guide waits until it is right.
Sourcing, and honesty about limits
Where a fact comes from a specific place, it is attributed to that place or dated to when it was true. Screenshots and instructions describe the platform as it actually behaves, not an idealised version of it. Where the honest answer is "it depends" or "this may have changed," the article says that plainly instead of papering over it with false certainty.
Updates and corrections
- Guides are kept current. Software moves, and a fix that worked two versions ago sometimes does not. Articles are revised as that happens, and a revised article carries the date it was last updated.
- Corrections are made in the open. A mistake is fixed on the page itself, with the date — never quietly edited away as though it was never there.
- Reader reports are the fastest fix. If you find a step that is out of date or wrong, telling us is the quickest way to get it corrected for the next person. Write to [email protected].
Independence: how money works here
The site is funded by advertising and, on some pages, affiliate links — and that funding is kept strictly separate from the writing.
- Where a link earns the site a commission, the article says so at the link, and the price you pay is exactly the same either way.
- No advertiser, affiliate partner or PR contact can pay for coverage, a mention, a link, or a better recommendation. What an article recommends is decided only by what actually helps the reader.
- Advertising, where it appears, is labelled as advertising and kept visibly separate from editorial content.
Tools and human accountability
Software helps us research and assemble drafts quickly, but it is not left to publish on its own. A human editor is responsible for every published word, checks it against the sources, and stands behind it. Nothing goes live that a person has not read and approved — and there is a single, named point of accountability for everything on the site, set out on the about page.
This is not professional advice
9sBlog covers consumer technology. Where a subject brushes against health, money or the law, the article says plainly when a qualified professional is what you actually need. A troubleshooting guide is not a substitute for one.
Questions about how we work, or something we got wrong? Write to[email protected], or see theabout page for who is behind the site.