These editorial guidelines are designed to help you understand what we accept and what we don't accept for inclusion in our article database. Before you submit to our site, please read this page and understand what is required.

1.      ARTICLE QUALIFICATIONS

To qualify for inclusion in our site, your article must:

1.1.       Be an original article that you have written.

1.2.       Not be an article you copied from the public domain or bought (plr).

1.3.       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.

1.4.       NOT be a press release, advertisement, sales letter, promotional copy, or blatant and excessive self-promotion or hype.

1.5.       HAVE proper English, spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitalization and sentence structure. If English is your second language, we strongly suggest that you have it proof read by someone who has English as their native tongue before submitting your articles to us. If you want your articles proof read by Article Land, ensuring acceptance in our directory, we can offer this service for $1 per article. Just use the Contact Us link in the right hand column, requesting proof reading in your communication.

1.6.       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.

1.7.       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.

1.8.       NOT contain information that promotes: Term papers or essays for sale to college students, PLR (Private Label Rights) articles, the promotion of email Safe-Lists or bulk email spamming, advocacy for paid auto-surf programs, advocacy of click fraud or clicking on Adsense ads, advocacy of creating MFA's (Made For Adsense) sites, or advocacy of Adsense Arbitrage (this policy is created to protect our advertisers interests).

1.9.       NOT contain any content that is a violation of any law, be considered defamatory, libelous, or infringes on the legal rights of others.

1.10.   NOT be a submission of the exact same article as one that you have already submitted to Article Land. 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.

1.11.   NOT include a reply to a personal email, letter or other correspondence.

1.12.   MUST NOT contain excessive and/or bold text keywords/phrases. Bold text is limited to headings and subheadings.

 

2.      ARTICLE TITLE

 

2.1.       Your Title MUST Be In Capital Case Letters With The First Letter of Each Major Word Capitalized. (See what we’ve done here?)

2.2.       We do not accept QUOTES around your entire TITLE.

2.3.       We do not allow HTML tags of any kind in your TITLE.

2.4.       Your TITLE must begin with the first word flush to the LEFT of the TITLE submission box.

2.5.       We do not allow your AUTHOR NAME or any WEBSITE URL to be in your TITLE.

2.6.       Your TITLE must not be stuffed full of keywords, but rather should read as a natural language TITLE that any human could easily appreciate.

2.7.       We do not allow prescription drug names or company names in the title.

2.8.       We do not accept One Word as the article TITLE, a MINIMUM of three unique words are required.

2.9.       We do not accept articles that use slang terms or profanity in the TITLE.

2.10.   TITLE KEYWORD RICHNESS: Your title should be "Keyword Rich." The first 3-4 words of your TITLE determines the success of the article in terms of how much traffic your article will generate...so choose the first 3-4 words wisely.

 

3.      ARTICLE SUMMARY

 

3.1.       The purpose of the article summary is to give an abstract or summary of the benefits that your article delivers.

3.2.       Every article must have a 2-3 sentence article summary and not exceed 200 words. If you don't know what to put in your summary, just use the first paragraph of your article.

3.3.       We do not allow HTML tags of any kind in your article summary.

3.4.       We do not allow blatant self-promotion in your article summary.

3.5.       We do not allow your author name to be in your article summary.

3.6.       We do not allow any website URL or Email Address to be in your article summary.

 

4.      CATEGORY

 

4.1.   Article category or sub-category - Please choose the best category or sub category based on the theme of your article and not the theme of your business.

 

 

5.      ARTICLE BODY

 

5.1.       Must be a minimum of 300 words and no more than 5,000 words. For us, an ideal article size is 400-750 words.

5.2.       Please do not repeat your TITLE and AUTHOR NAME at the top of the ARTICLE BODY.

5.3.       Copyrights must be at the bottom of your article.

5.4.       If you include a REPRINT RIGHTS statement in your article, it must be at the BOTTOM of your article.

5.5.       Keep in mind our Publisher Terms of Service when you write your reprint rights statement as we will not accept articles that have REPRINT RIGHTS statements that conflict with our posted Author Terms of Service.

5.6.       If you sell hard in the ARTICLE BODY by including your URL or product pitch or blatant self-promotion, we will delete your article without notice. The RESOURCE BOX is where you get to pitch yourself or your website address.

5.7.       Your article body MUST deliver on what is promised in the title. We do not accept teaser links or phrases that require a reader to click away from the article or reference another source in order to receive the full benefit of what has been promised.

5.8.       Please do not submit articles with excessive HARD LINE BREAKS. A hard line break is when you use the HTML or tag to force a carriage return rather than allowing each line to wrap naturally.

5.9.       At the very END of your ARTICLE BODY, please help us by removing any excess vertical spaces.

5.10.   Your article MUST be single spaced, MUST use appropriate paragraph breaks, and MUST use correct formatting for bulleted or numbered lists.

 

6.      WEBSITE LINKS/URLS

6.1.       We will allow up to 4 active links in the article, which consists of both the BODY and the RESOURCE BOX.

6.2.       We do not accept articles with links in the first 3 paragraphs. Please put your active links in the resource box below the article body. The article BODY is your "GIVE" and the RESOURCE BOX is your "TAKE."

6.3.       Your links must be constructed using the editor link function. HTML will not resolve in the software.

6.4.       Your links MAY NOT contain a file to be downloaded of any type.

6.5.       We do not knowingly allow any URLs that are banned by Google or if your website engages in questionable SEO practices.

6.6.       We do not accept articles that have the same link more than once.

6.7.       We do not allow articles which have strategic keyword anchor text links in the body to your domain that do not add informational value to the article. Any use of anchored text links to websites that you own should add value to the article topic rather than stand out as an obvious abuse of anchored text link. The goal with this policy is to be a good net citizen by only allowing articles that add value with the anchored text links rather than for pure SEO reasons. Please limit your anchor text link length to 3 words.

6.8.       We will not accept articles with links to adult-oriented websites, including but not limited to websites that include pornography, adult-oriented sexual content.

6.9.       We do not allow links to websites that are under construction.

6.10.   Email 'mailto:' links - We do not advocate including a mailto: or email link to your personal or work email account. Spammers will abuse it.

 

7.      AFFILIATE PROGRAMS

 

7.1.       Affiliate links will be allowed if the link is a domain name you own which forwards/redirects to the affiliate link from the top-level of the domain name. For example, it is permissible to forward to an affiliate link from:

http://your-company-name.com/

...but it would not be permissible to forward to an affiliate link from:

http://your-company-name.com/page.html

http://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/

http://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/page.html

http://sub-domain.your-company-name.com/

Any article with an affiliate link that does not adhere to this guideline will be rejected.