Submission Guidelines

The rules for submitting your articles to ArticleLog.com are simple, but they must be followed if you would like us to consider your article for publication. Please read the guidelines below. Authors that do not follow our strict guidelines may have their accounts banned without notice.

We will begin banning authors that do not follow our submission guidelines - Please read our guidelines in their entirety before submitting any articles to our site. Our guidelines are simple to follow and mandatory. If an author is banned, all articles are deleted including the articles that were already published and any articles still in our query.

Author Names

• Authors must read our decline emails - It is the authors responsibility to read the decline messages we send to them. Our decline email contains information regarding problems with your article title, summary, keywords, article body, resource box or author name. If an author continues to send articles after we have sent multiple decline emails and it's obvious to us that our emails are being ignored, the author may be permanently banned from submitting articles to our site.
• Author names (pen names) must be proper names - We will not accept website names, keywords, celebrity names or business names as author names. We will not publish articles written by authors if the pen name is not a proper name and your articles will be declined without being read by our staff.
• Author names must be capitalized properly - The first letter of your first and last name must be capitalized. Your author name is important and our admins will not read any article written by an author without the name being properly capitalized. This can hold up the publication of your article and, if not corrected, could lead to a permanent ban.
  
  

Title

• Article Titles must be capitalized properly and be grammatically correct - We will decline any articles with titles that are not properly capitalized. Repeat offenders may be banned from future submissions.

 

Summary

• Summaries must be grammatically correct - The summary must be grammatically correct just like the article body. It must be a short summary of the article that lets the reader know what useful information can be gained by reading the article. It should not be a sales pitch or used to advertise a business, website or product.

 

Keywords

• Keywords must be related to the content of the article - Keyword should be related to the article's content and not the resources box unless the resource box contains information directly related to the article. Keywords should always be relative to the article's subject.
• Keywords must be entered properly - All keywords should be in all lower-case letters and followed by a comma and a space. The last keyword or keyword phrase should have no punctuation afterwards.
  Example: dog training, training a dog, training for dogs, dog training site, dog training tips, dog training advice
• Authors should include between 10 and 15 keywords or phrases - Ten to fifteen keywords or keyword phrases is best. More is better than less.
  
  Tips...
  1. Research your keywords to find keywords and phrases that have less competition.
  2. Using Google's Keyword tool can help you identify the best keywords and phrases to use. Here's a link to the tool. Google's Keyword Tool

 

Article Body

• Articles must contain useful information for readers and publishers - Articles must contain useful information for readers. Fluff articles will not be published because they do not provide readers with any useful information and are rarely published on websites, blogs, ezines or in newsletters. Articles should be researched and contain as much useful information as possible.
• The article body must be free of spelling, grammar and formatting errors - Please check your article thoroughly for mistakes. If you use a word processor, be sure to check for errors in formatting before hitting the submit button. Word processors often cause problems. Paste your article into a text document (notepad or wordpad), save it and then check the article for errors in formatting.

 

Resource Box

• Resource box information contain no more than three links - Authors are allowed a maximum of three links in their ten cause problems. Paste your article into a text document (notepad or wordpad), save it and then check the article for errors in formatting. resource boxes.
• The resource box must be free of spelling, grammar and formatting errors - Please check your resource box for mistakes.
  
  
  

  General Guidelines

• Articles must not be created using article spinners - Spun articles are almost always filled with errors in grammar. They are a useless way to create content and do not create original content. They are also very easy for our admins to spot. We consider this cheating. Authors that submit spun content will be banned immediately and without warning.
• The use of html in the article title, summary, keywords or article body is not allowed - Please use your resource box.
• Articles must be written in English - This includes the article title, summary, keywords, body and resource box.
• The articles that you submit must be your own work - You may not submit articles written by other authors and the content must be unique. No re-branded articles allowed, you must be the sole copyright holder for each article you submit. Articles written by a ghost writer are perfectly acceptable as long as they are being used only by yourself.
• By submitting your articles to our directory, you grant us the right to publish your articles - We may publish your article anywhere on our website, blog, or syndicate through RSS. We may also change where it appears, including the category, at any time.
• By submitting your articles to our directory, you grant others the right to publish your articles - Other users (publishers) have the right to publish your articles on their websites, blogs, ezines, in newsletters and more as long as the article is left in the original state. This includes the resource box which provides you credit as the author of the content. The links in the resource box must also remain intact and in working order.
• Submitting your articles to our directory does not entitle you to financial compensation of any kind - You will not receive compensation from our directory or the users of our directory for the articles you submit.
• Submitting an article in no ways guarantees inclusion in our directory - We reserve the right to reject an article submission for any reason.
• Articles must be proof read for grammar, spelling and formatting errors prior to submitting - Do not submit articles filled with spelling errors and bad grammar. We do monitor article submissions and we will reject content that doesn't meet this requirement.
• Authors may have only one account - Authors found to have more than one account, may have all of their accounts banned.
• Articles of any subject matter we deem inappropriate will be declined - We reserve the right to decline articles for any reason. This includes articles containing content we prefer not to publish on our site.
• We reserve the right to ban author accounts - Any author that does not follow our guidelines may be banned from our site withour prior warning and for any reason we deem fit.