Writers or Contributor Guidelines

We are committed to providing high-quality, and valuable content from some of the great minds in the Spirituality and Healing Field. To maintain these standards we require our contributors to follow the below guidelines.

Article Submission Guidelines

1. All posts must be at least 800-1700 words in length and may include one relevant image, one video, and outbound links that enhance the overall experience. Irrelevant hyperlinks will be removed, and keyword-stuffing submissions will be refused. Please keep in mind that all links must fit naturally into the sentence/article and bring value to the reader. Affiliate links are not permitted in posts.
2. Posts will not be promotional or advertorial in nature. We do not publish company-specific news, press releases, or press-release-like content. Contributors are encouraged to include a call to action at the end of their postings. This can be image- or text-based (1-2 sentences).

What is an acceptable CTA?

A file download for some kind of content resource (guide, report, white paper, eBook, etc.) An event registration (webinar or live event) A free trial (must link to signup page)

What is not considered an acceptable CTA:

A request to visit a company's website
A request to follow the firm on social media, with links to social profiles.
An invitation to sign up for email newsletters and other related subscriptions.
A request to contact a corporation, giving all contact information.
3. Individual contributor author bios must be published in the user profile and may not be included in the post content. If the post was written by more than one person, it will be published under one name, with the names of the other authors appearing in a by-line at the bottom (no bio information or links may be included).
4. Due to the enormous volume of posts we get on a daily basis, we ask that when you submit them for final review, they be in a ready-to-publish form that is consistent with our existing content. While we check each submission and may make formatting changes as needed, posts that require extensive editing may be rejected.
5. Authors submitting posts manually are responsible for checking the status of their posts to see if they require modifications, as well as making the necessary changes and resubmitting the entries. Please note that it will take longer for posts to be published if they require revisions to conform to our requirements.
6. Authors/Writers will be responsible for the originality and accuracy of his or her contributions. Any contributor found to have plagiarized any portion of his or her work will have his or her whole body of work investigated. If proven guilty of plagiarism, the offending author will be banned from the community and all of their work will be removes.

What counts as plagiarism?

1. Submission of another person's work as one's own, word-for-word.
2. Taking someone else's work and altering a few words or phrases.
3. Copying any portion of another author's work, whether or not the words are altered.
4. Rewriting the work of someone else.
5. Using someone else's concept as your own, including the progression, flow, and main points of a post, as well as its examples, photographs, etc.
6. Copying content from any website, with or without attribution.
7. Content must be pertinent to our website and audience.
8. Quotations should serve a function within the content and not simply be employed to obtain a link back to the company's page. We will request that thin quotes and their associated links be removed.
9. We syndicate information from Complete Herbal Guide to third-party websites like Yahoo! News, Bing News, and Google News. Before submitting, please reread and revise your posts thoroughly, as they syndicate the original form published on our website. We are unable to edit or remove posts once they have been published, nor can we edit or remove posts syndicated to external sites. If you submit many requests, your contributor status may be reviewes.
10. Posts may take two weeks to go live. All post-publication & editing is done at the discretion of specialists.

Linking Guidelines

11. No domain should have more than one link that goes back to it. Even though many of the links on your site make sense, they can look like spam on ours.

Acceptable links:

Relevant blog posts and articles
Data or Research
Resources that will genuinely benefit the reader and make sense in the context of the posts.

Unacceptable links:

Affiliate links
One’s own company links (homepage, About Us, Contact, Prices, Products, etc.)
Product/service/pricing pages
Category/tag pages
Company social profile links — please place these in your profile instead.
No link building. If we determine that you are contributing content only to establish links for yourself or others, we will either request that the links be removed or simply not publish the posts.
Do not use repeat links or repeat keywords/anchor text.
No keyword-rich linking.
We have the right to take down or not follow any link we want.
If you want to send us a post that must have a link, it's probably not a good fit for us because that would be sponsored content. Please expect that any link you add will be taken down.

Guidelines for Infographic Submissions

At least 300 words of original text must also be included. This material should be a big post on its own, containing useful information. It should not merely restate or summaries the infographic's content. We anticipate that this content will be as well written as a standard full-length blog post. If an infographic post contains thin text, it will be rejected regardless of how amazing the image is.
The topic of an infographic must be connected to our main site themes. Irrelevant infographics will be disqualified.
Infographic posts must include a link to the original picture source page, not the homepage of the company. The link to the original source page should display below the infographic, not within the infographic itself.
The image should be of good quality and contain relevant and valuable information.
The image should be of good quality and contain relevant and valuable information.

Quick Tips for Post Submissions

Please double-check everything before eamiling the post.
Please keep in mind that submitting a post does not guarantee that it will be published. If your post is not published, please visit the editing notes for ways to correct and resubmit it, as well as review our terms of service.
These rules could be modified at any time. It is the contributors' responsibility to be aware of and follow changes.

Disclaimer: Failure to abide by the posting requirements may result in banning. Kindly review the term of use