Guest Posting Guidelines – How to Submit Your Guest Post

Thanks for exploring the possibility of being a Guest Writer at Sweets Foods Blog!

 

What Kind of Posts I expect?

This blog cover principally 3 areas:
• Blogging Tips / Resources / Blog Marketing – Intermediate, Advanced
• Social Media / Social Networking / Social Media Marketing
• Food Connections, Healthy Eating and a bit of Fitness

Anything that is useful for my readers is appropriate as a guest post. Of course, I’m opened to new topics as long as they are in the categories mentioned above or similar new ones. Hence, contact me with your writing samples or post ideas of what you’ve in mind.

 

Which are the Benefits by writing Guest Posts?

For the Guest Writer:
You can get exposure to a new audience and the possibility of increasing your subscriptions with new readers for your site.
For every type of article I’ll be promoting it through my social networks and I guess that you’d do the same with your networks.

For my Readers: is viewing new points of view of different themes and exploring new interesting sites indeed.

 

Guidelines for Submissions:

• Your post written for Sweets Foods must be original, in other words, the same has never been published on any other site/blog, including your own blog.
• The article can include a by-line with a link back to your blog, which will be put at the end of the article. (It’s not allowed linking to commercial sites /affiliate links; the same should be a blogger – guest post type)
• Have in mind: If in your by-line/author bio, the link to your site is not a blog (in other words, the site is focused to sell exclusively products or services), then I’ll consider it as an advertiser and not as a blogger-guest writer.
• Optionally, you can include in your by-line an extra link to your preferred personal social-site namely: Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus or whatever.
• Search the blog to see the writing style and make sure that the subject you write doesn’t match a former article. Please avoid repeating themes already touched many times.
• Proofread your article for grammatical or spelling errors. Anyway, I’ll check the same and if it were necessary, eventually, I can edit your work to correct it.
• The article should have at least a minimum of 900 words. If it’s possible, I prefer lengthy-quality articles; also it’d be scannable with headlines, sub-headlines, bulleted lists, etc.
• I request to guest writers replying to each of all the comments generated of their own guest post. This is a social blog therefore after the post is live, if you don’t reply to the comments individually, in a reasonable term of 2 days, I reserve the right to delete the link in the author by-line or any self-serving links within the content. I know it’s harsh, but I don’t want people just “post and run”. No engage – no link, simple.
• Please use an email address associated to your Gravatar image that you check often, to follow the comment-notifications and engage with the readers. At the bottom of the comment box, you’ve a button “Notify me of followup comments via e-mail” to follow-up all the comments.
• It’d be great if in your article, you can insert some link to former posts on my blog, with topics-related to the same.
• Attach any images you want to include in the post, including the correspondent credits.
• If you’ve done other guest posts before, please submit some of the links to your past writing experience.

Any doubts about some point? Contact me right now, I’m all ears!

 

How long will it take for Your Guest Post to be Published on this Blog?

First I read your article or ideas and I’ll inform you if your guest post will be published and when.

Normally in one or two days, I’ll communicate with you about the status of your guest post. In one week, eventually, two weeks your article will be published, depending of the theme and other guest posts that I can have in the queue.

 

How do You Submit your Guest Post to me?

Please submit your guest post to sweetsfoods (at) sweetsfoods (dot) com as an attachment file in a word processor file or similar, and if you want, already formatted in HTML format (much better). Also include eventual images as separate attachments.

Please state if the pictures are of your own; if not, give the link to the owner of the same (public domain or creative commons license)

 

Have You written Guest Posts for other Bloggers?

Yes, check out this example of guest post 10 Thoughts I Learned This Year that Will Help Your Blog

If you’ve in mind me to do a guest post for your site, please take notice that the available time to make it, depends of the work load I’ve at the moment and other weekly tasks. The better is always to contact me.