Article Guidelines

For Authors And Publishers

Authors

This is not a link farm and the quality of content submitted should always be of a good standard, which will equally benefit contributors and the site owner. Please read the following guidelines before contributing. If at any time you have any suggestions to improve the site and the service please contact me.

If you want to learn more about article marketing we have articles offering information and advice in our Article Marketing category.

Article Ownership
All articles submitted must be written by yourself; or for you by a copywriter and solely owned by you. No PLR articles allowed and plagiarism is strictly unacceptable. Any plagiarised or PLR articles found will be deleted, accounts terminated and new attempts at membership blocked.

Categories
Articles should be submitted to a category relevant to the content of the body of the article not what is advertised in the author bio. That makes it easier to find for those searching for specific information. If there isn't an appropriate category please contact me and ask for a new category to be added. Or alternatively you may submit your article to the category named Home Business and include your category suggestion in CAPITALS at the head of your article.

Links
You may add 2 links altogether. One to your main site or blog in the author bio and a link to the site you are using your article to promote, where you are asked to provide a link, but the links must be to your own website and not affiliate links. Because of the nature of the page layout I would also repeat that link at the bottom of the article to ensure that publishers include your link. Add something like:
Author Name: Patricia Jones
Websites:  http://bb-articles.com     http://articlesabroad.com

Titles Or Article Heading
Should be in Title Format and not all in UPPER CASE or lower case. Your name, website address or anything self-promotional should only appear in the author bio and not be included in the title. The title should be relevant to the article and only contain one keyword or phrase, ideally at the beginning of the title. If you use ' or ? the software may convert them to something else.

Short Description
Should be a brief outline of the article, to create interest and ideally not a copy of the first paragraph and not a repeat of the title. A keyword or phrase may be used here. Your name, website address or anything self-promotional should only appear in the author bio and not be included here.

Article Body
All articles should be of 500 words or over with no exceptions. The content of articles should be well written, grammatically correct and contain information, advice and items of interest to readers. Images may be added to the articles but not promotional banners unless you are a paying member.

There should be paragraphs to break the article up for easier readability and no hard breaks. In other words the article should flow naturally and when written enter only used for new paragraphs. Ideally articles should be pasted from a notepad and not word or another website.

Keywords and phrases should not take up more than 4-6% of the article and the title shouldn't be repeated.

Automatic Submission

We do not accept articles from automatic submission companies unless by prior agreement. Those companies should abide by our terms and conditions and not submit articles unacceptable to this site. If there are too many problems then the ip addresses will be blocked.

Publishers

You are welcome to use articles from this site on your own websites, newsletters, ebooks or ezines providing that you retain the author bio and links and the article source. Articles should not be altered or added to without the authors permission.