Post Guidelines

This is a page for writers. If you want to write for us, please follow these guidelines. If you want to know some good reasons to write for us please check out our write for Technology Bloggers page.

The Criteria

Content Guidelines

  • Your content must be of a reasonable length – 300 minimum to around 1,500 maximum (exceptions may be made)
  • All posts should try to remain similar in terms of presentation. Fragmented posts, which don’t look like something an established writer would have written are unacceptable e.g. inappropriate use of: bright colours, large text, bold/italic type, bullet points, carriage returns etc.
  • ‘Advert‘ articles will not be accepted. Your content must be useful to someone – just a simple plug for your own site or product will not be accepted, however you may plug your site as part of a great informative/helpful article

Originality and Reposting

  • Your content must be original, don’t go stealing it from elsewhere, and don’t repost stuff from your own blog or website! We do extensive checks, and delete the accounts of users who copy content – that said, quoting is accepted (in moderation)
  • You can repost the content on your own site 3 days after it has been published on Technology Bloggers, as long as it has a dofollow link to the article, and if possible (not necessary but thoughtful) to Technology Bloggers

Spelling and Grammar

  • All posts must be written in good English, we are a ‘universal’ (world wide) blog but we would prefer it if you could write in UK English, although other variations will be tolerated ;-)

Images

  • You can include images but you don’t have to – if you don’t one will be added for you, this is because it is part of our author guidelines

Topic

  • Articles must relate to technology, blogging, social networking, business, SEO, media, science or a related topic – check out our topics on the sidebar, if it fits into one of those, it should be fine :-)

Impartiality and Offence

  • Writers should aim to write impartial posts, for example if a post is a review of a product, even if the writer doesn’t like the product, they should state it’s strengths and weaknesses to generate a fair judgement of the product
  • Writers can however express their opinion and draw conclusions like: ‘overall I don’t really like the product, because despite it’s functionality, it is a novelty good, priced too highly’
  • Don’t use and bad language, even ‘soft’ swearwords are not accepted
  • No content that could offend anyone will be published!

Reliablity

  • In order to make sure that the content you publish is factual and reliable, please make sure you check the reliability of your sources. To judge a source to be reliable, you should ensure that the information it quotes can be found on three other websites, one of which is a reputable site. Reputable sites include government websites, and sites like the BBC.

Outstanding Articles

  • To write outstanding articles, make sure that your articles also meet our author guidelines – this should get them posted quicker too :-)

Apart from that, happy writing!

A Note About Your Bio

On your profile page in the WordPress dashboard, you will see a box labelled ‘Biographical Info’. In this box you should put a brief summary about yourself. What do you do, what do you write about, what are your hobbies, what role do you play/hope to play in the blog, etc.

You can include HTML in your bio, and up to three external URL’s. Try to make sure that your bio is somewhere between 20 and 60 words, although we probably won’t mind if it’s 18 or 62 :-)

Your bio box is an area to show of who you are. Your profile will appear on your profile page and at the bottom of every article you write. Your profile – maybe slightly recrafted – will also feature on the our writers page.

You might want to check our one of our current writers profiles to for some inspiration :-)

Google Authorship

We allow and encourage all writers to claim authorship of their posts, by linking to their Google+ profile. You can do this by adding your Google+ name and URL to your WordPress profile, just login and head over to the ‘Your Profile’ page. There you will find instructions as to what you need to do – it is really simple :-)

Comments

We are a community blog and therefore strongly encourage writers to reply to comments their post(s) revive, that they deem need a reply. Replying to comments helps to widen a writers and the blogs reader base as well as encouraging the development of a strong community, both on the blog and across the web – especially on social media platforms.

Please note: The admin team reserve the right to edit/modify your content before publishing, and once content goes live the admin team hold the rights to the content.

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