Article Guidelines and Rules
- MUST BE AN ORIGINAL ARTICLE
THAT YOU WROTE. If you
work for an author as an employee or contractor and are submitting
the article, please submit the article as if it was from the
original author including his or her email address and name.
- MUST NOT INCLUDE LINKS WITHIN
THE ARTICLE BODY.
Articles must not included links within the body of the article. If
you want to include promotional links you are allowed 2 links within
your resource box which is attached to all of your articles.
- MUST NOT CAP ALL WORDS IN
TITLES. Your Title MUST
Be In Upper and Lower Case Letters With The First Letter of Each
Major Word Capitalized.
We will not accept your TITLE in all CAPS.
- MUST NOT SUBMIT REWRITTEN
ARTICLES. Submitting
articles that are already submitted in our article directory or
submitting articles you have spinned just to make it look slightly
different will be removed and have the author banned do to spam.
- MUST NOT BE AN ARTICLE YOU
RIPPED-OFF FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN OR BOUGHT (PLR). If you did hire a
ghost writer to write your articles, you MUST have an EXCLUSIVE
LICENSE that *only* allows your name to be associated with the
articles produced for you.
Do not waste your time or ours by buying article packs that have
non-exclusive licenses as we reject those articles. Why do we do
this? #1) It makes you look like a fraud because you're putting your
name on someone else's works that already may have hundreds or
thousands of other authors who already put their name on the exact
same works and #2) we do not want more than one copy of any article
in our directory.
- MUST BE
informative and share your unique expertise. Include tips,
strategies, techniques, case-studies, analysis, opinions and
commentary in your articles. We do not accept articles that contain
more than 5 lines of quoted or sourced material.
- MUST NOT
be a press release, advertisement, sales letter, promotional copy,
or blatant and excessive self-promotion or hype.
- MUST HAVE
proper English, spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitalization and
sentence structure. While we know there is a variation in what is
considered "proper English," we ask that you at least be consistent
within your article. Your article must also be proofed and double
checked for accuracy. If English is your second language, we
strongly suggest that you have it proofed by someone who has English
as their native tongue before submitting your articles to us.
- SIMPLE PUNCTUATION RULES:
One or two spaces after each period, colon, or semi-colon; Periods
should be inside of quotes; When doing "..." -- you should use only
3 dots minimum and maximum; When using dashes, use two in a row, ex:
"--"; There is never a space BEFORE a period or BEFORE a comma.
- MUST NOT
contain: pornography/adult material, hate or violence-oriented,
suggest racial intolerance, advocate against any individual or
group, have insulting, obscene, degrading tone, or contain
profanity.
- MUST NOT
contain information on: Hacking/cracking content, bomb creation,
support for terrorism/ radicalism/ religious fanaticism, illicit
drugs or drug paraphernalia, steroid use or advocacy, weapon/
firearms/ ammunition/ balisongs/ butterfly knives or brass knuckles,
or the promotion of hard alcohol/tobacco-related products or
prescription drugs.
- MUST NOT
contain information that promotes: Term papers or essays for sale to
college students, PLR (Private Label Rights) articles as a good
thing (it's not), the promotion of email Safe-Lists as a good thing
(it's not) or bulk email spamming as a good thing (it's not),
advocacy for paid auto-surf programs as a good thing (it's not),
advocacy of click fraud or clicking on Adsense ads as a good thing
(it's not), advocacy of creating MFA's (Made For Adsense) sites as a
good strategy (it's not), or advocacy of Adsense Arbitrage (this
policy is created to protect our advertisers interests).
- MUST NOT
contain any content that is a violation of any law, be considered
defamatory, libelous, or infringes on the legal rights of others.
- MUST NOT
be a submission of the exact same article as one that you already
submitted. Some authors have submitted the same article multiple
times with only a few words changed in the body -- we reject these
and ban authors who engage in this practice.
- MUST NOT
include a reply to a personal email, letter or other correspondence.
- MUST NOT
contain excessive and/or bolded keywords/ phrases. Bolding is
limited to headings and subheadings.
How our Submission Process Works?
All new authors are given 10 credit submissions per month which means
they can submit up to 10 new articles in a months time. All new articles
submitted are given a review grade of 1 of the four types
superb, okay,
poor, spam. Based on your articles score, your monthly submission rate
increases or decreases. We want to reduce spam, so we give good authors
more credits to submit more quality articles and for the authors who
spam, they are given less submissions credits to prevent them from
submitting spammy articles. Also while we try to approve articles as
fast as possible, we put a preference on quality unique articles. Below
explains how we rate articles.
Superb articles give authors 5 extra submissions Credits per
month. These articles are unique and haven't been submitted anywhere
else, plus they meet all the guidelines, while also provides must
provides exceptional quality.
Okay Articles gives authors only 2 points extra per month. These
articles are of okay quality but are good enough to keep the reader
interesting in reading the whole article.
Poor Articles takes away 2 credits from authors overall credits
per month. These articles probably followed the guidelines but just
don't meet up the the standards of a good article.
Spam Articles takes away 5 credits per month form your allowed
monthly submissions rate. So this will put a stop to spammers. Submit
quality articles to the right to submit to excellentguide.com.
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