By coming to this page you’ve shown your desire to:

• share your opinions and ideas
• gain exposure via inbound links and traffic to your own blog or webpage
• or just increase your experience and get your name known

Whatever your reason for wanting to publish, this site relies heavily upon the wisdom, insight and experience of its community to create content – we’d love to have you involved!

We get pitched a lot of great guest posts, but unfortunately we’re not able to use everything that’s submitted. We prefer posts that:

• present a unique insight or perspective
• shed a different light on a topic, or consider it from a fresh angle
• take a practical approach that lets readers apply the information in their own lives, today.

We may decline to use your post because it fails to present information in a new way, because the topic lacks relevance for our readers, because we have more posts than we can use, or because we’ve already published a number of posts on the specific topic recently.

To help you with your writing, to increase the chances of our being able to use your post, and to help us get your post ready for publishing, we’ve put together a few guidelines and suggestions for you below.

In short, before you send us your submission, please make sure it:

1. conveys quality, practical advice presented with dscottangle.com readers in mind
2. is able to be used exclusively at dscottangle.com
3. includes all the information—links, link text, reusable images, etc. – you want the published version of your post to include
4. links to credible third-party sources where appropriate
5. contains a link and artist attribution for each image you’ve included
6. infringes no copyright laws, either in terms of text or images
7. includes a headline, body text, your byline, and an image.

Once your post is ready, submit it via email through submissions@dscottangle.com. You can also pitch ideas there.

Exclusivity

Unless previously negotiated, we ask that the posts you submit to us are written exclusively for use by dscottangle.com. While you’re more than welcome to write on the same topic elsewhere, our hope is that posts that appear on dscottangle.com don’t appear in the same form elsewhere.

Topics

Posts work best on dscottangle.com that are relevant to my overall topic – practical inspiration for aspirational living. Of course there’s a lot of room to move in this overall topic. Anything that helps readers improve their enjoyment of life will be helpful.

dscottangle.com readers love practical, empathetic advice. Give my readers information that they can apply in their own lives immediately, and you’ll be popular here. Even more theoretical posts that have something in them that readers can “apply” rather than just “know” are good.

Topics in which we’re particularly interested right now include:

• family
• relationships
• small/home business
• leadership
• personal growth
• lifestyle & making the most of what you have
• social good

Voice

Some guest posters worry about what voice or style to write in. Ultimately this is up to you. We encourage you to bring your own voice to your post. It really should be from YOU.

Formatting and markup

Feel free to submit your content in Word or plain text format. It’d be great if you could also follow these points in preparing your post for us.

• Please don’t use a bold-font in your post’s prose.
• Subheadings: wrap any subheadings in your post in <h2> tags, or simply bold them so they stand out.
• Links: if you want to mark up a link and link text using HTML, by all means do so. Otherwise, include the URL in brackets within the prose, immediately after the text you’d like to use as the link text.

Please do include everything you want to have included with your post in your submission. If you want to include links, paste them in the spot where you want them to go. If you want to use particular link text, tell us. If you want to include a specific image, send it in (see below for more on this). Don’t assume we’ll know what information you want, and where: tell us clearly.

A note on links to your own blog…

If it’s relevant to the topic you’re writing about, you’re welcome to link back to your blog within the post. Keep in mind that this relevancy is very important. If we feel your post includes too many links back to your own blog, we may remove them, or reject the post. We don’t mind promoting you, but subtlety often works best. A high-quality, helpful post will get people checking out who you are more effectively than will lots of links back to your blog.

Images

We love to include images in posts on dscottangle.com. As the theme here is fairly text-oriented, images add personality, break up content and grab attention. We find that posts with at least one good image gain more attention than posts that lack images. A few suggestions for images:

• Images can be of any size, but the maximum width is 530 pixels.
• It’s up to you to ensure that the images you submit are able to be reused in terms of copyright.
• Images can be illustrative (screenshots), descriptive (something that’s more attention-grabbing on the theme of the post), or anything else that you’d like to include.

Feel free to either submit images as separate files in your email, or send us a link to the location on your own server where we can download the image. We’ll then grab the image and host it on the dscottangle.com server (so there are no worries about us crashing yours). Please don’t submit images by pasting them into your post document.

Post length

Your post should be as long as you need it to be in order to convey your message. We publish posts that vary greatly in length. Anything goes—length isn’t a factor, but quality is. Stick with your own style and voice, and choose a length that sits well with you.

Editing

All posts that appear on dscottangle.com are edited. We rarely edit them heavily, but we may change titles, rework openings or conclusions, or correct grammar and spelling.

Don’t be offended by this – we’re just trying to make every post we publish as successful as possible.

Occasionally, we’ll send a post back to you with suggested additions, omissions, or changes. This generally suggests we feel the post could be further enhanced in ways that go beyond some basic editing.

Our hope is that we get a post that hits the mark with the readership – that’s good for you as the author, good for dscottangle.com readership, and good for the blog as a whole.

Byline

You’ve worked to give us great content, so let us help you promote you. We want to highlight you, your blog, or any product or service that you have to offer. This is largely done in your byline.

Bylines should contain a sentence or two explaining who you are and what you do. Feel free to include up to two links in it. Some guests include a link to an RSS feed here, which can convert well. Your byline will appear at the bottom of your post, but we’ll also write a short introductory sentence that will include your main link, and will appear at the top of the post.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us via submissions@dscottangle.com and we’ll do our best to answer them. Also please submit your article ideas via the same email address. Thanks for your involvement with dscottangle.com.