Last updated: September 14, 2026
This Editorial Policy explains how Sudoku Online plans, reviews, publishes, and updates Sudoku guides, strategy articles, feature explanations, and other informational content. It is intended to make our publishing process understandable without claiming credentials or review processes that the site does not use.
1. What we publish
Our editorial content focuses on Sudoku rules, solving techniques, puzzle difficulty, Killer Sudoku concepts, practice habits, website features, and related player education. Gameplay pages and editorial articles have separate purposes: a gameplay URL should help you play, while a guide or article should help you understand or improve.
2. Search intent and page ownership
We try to keep one primary URL for each major search intent. Supporting articles should answer narrower questions and link back to the relevant game or guide instead of creating duplicate pages that compete for the same query. When older content overlaps, we prefer to refresh, re-target, or carefully consolidate it rather than publish another near-duplicate page.
3. Accuracy and verification
Sudoku rules, examples, candidate logic, and solving explanations should be checked for internal consistency before publication. For product-specific statements, we compare the article with the behavior of the current website. We avoid presenting guesses, generated examples, or outdated feature descriptions as verified facts.
4. Automated and AI-assisted tools
Automated tools may be used to help with outlines, duplicate-angle checks, internal-link planning, technical QA, language workflows, or drafting assistance. They do not remove editorial responsibility. Content should be reviewed for accuracy, clarity, intent, links, and fit with the live product before it is treated as production copy.
5. Sources and external references
Most Sudoku rules and standard techniques are established puzzle concepts rather than proprietary claims. When an article relies on a changing external fact, product behavior, specification, or third-party policy, the editor should verify the relevant source and avoid copying material beyond what is necessary to explain the point.
6. Updates
Articles can be refreshed when the website changes, examples become unclear, links break, or a better explanation is available. A content refresh should preserve the page’s core search intent unless there is a clear reason to re-target it. Major URL consolidation should be preceded by internal-link, canonical, hreflang, sitemap, and redirect checks.
7. Corrections
We welcome reports about incorrect Sudoku logic, misleading wording, broken links, translation problems, or outdated feature descriptions. See our Content Correction Policy for the correction process and use the Contact page to submit a specific URL and explanation.
8. Puzzle and product testing
When an article makes a claim about puzzle quality, uniqueness, difficulty grading, or current game behavior, we prefer to check it against the same systems used by the live product. See How We Test Sudoku Puzzles for the current testing methodology and its limits.
9. Editorial attribution and independence
We do not create fictional expert biographies to make content appear more authoritative. Public articles are attributed to the site publisher unless the administrator explicitly configures a real public editor/byline. If commercial relationships, sponsorships, advertising, or affiliate content are introduced in the future, they should be disclosed clearly and should not silently change the rules, scoring, or factual explanation of the puzzle.