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Publish from inside the piece — there’s no standalone publish page. Open the article at its detail page (content/detail/[id]), go to the Publishing tab, choose the destination, publish, then set the live URL on the piece (rank tracking, indexing, and reporting all key off it). If you have the compliance guardrail on for this content type, publishing runs a real gate that blocks failing content until it’s fixed or approved — see Use the guardrail at publish.

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Steps

  1. Open the piece and go to the Publishing tab.
  2. Choose the destination (configured under Settings, then Platforms; see 2.1.5).
  3. Publish.
  4. Set the live (published) URL on the piece. This one matters: rank tracking, indexing, and reporting all key off the recorded published URL, so a piece without its live URL set is effectively invisible to the rest of the workflow.
  5. If IndexNow is on, publishing pings the search engines automatically; if GSC auto-queue-on- publish is on, the URL is queued for indexing. Verify it happened, then finish the job with 2.5.3 Index on GSC + sitemap.

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The compliance gate

If you have the compliance guardrail enabled for this content type, publishing runs a final check. Failing content is blocked until it’s fixed or the exact version is approved. Each violation comes with the offending excerpt, why it breaches, and a suggested fix. This block is real and live today — see Use the guardrail at publish for the full flow, and Set up the guardrail to configure it.
Note: the guardrail settings copy in the UI may still describe enforcement as “coming soon.” That copy is stale — the publish path does block failing content. Treat the block as real.

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Publishing isn’t the finish line

A piece is “done” only after the technical SEO audit passes and it’s submitted for indexing. See the Definition of Done.
Next: 2.5.2 Technical SEO audit · 2.5.3 Index on GSC