Article Land Submission Guidelines

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 any articles 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 you have written.

1.2.   not be an article you have copied from the public domain or bought (PLR).

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

1.4.   have proper English, spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitalization and sentence structure.

1.5.   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.

1.6.   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.

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

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

1.9.   not include a reply to a personal email, letter or other correspondence.

1.10. 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 will not accept your TITLE in all CAPS.

2.3.    It is not required that you capitalize common words such as "a" - "the" - "to" - "for" etc, we accept these either way.

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

2.5.    Do NOT end your TITLE with a period.

2.6.    Refrain from excessive repetitive punctuation in your TITLE. One exclamation "!" or question mark "?" is enough to make a point.

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

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

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

2.10.  Your TITLE must not be stuffed full of keywords (too many redundant keywords used over and over again), but rather should read as a natural language TITLE that any human could easily appreciate. Do not over-optimize your TITLE please.

2.11.  We do not allow prescription drug names or company names in the title of your article.

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

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

2.14.  Please limit your title to 14 words maximum.

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

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

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

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

3.5.   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.

3.6.   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.

3.7.   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.

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

4.      WEBSITE LINKS/URLS

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

4.2.   We do not accept articles with links in the first 1-3 paragraphs.

4.3.   We do not accept links that use HTML to add style attributes to the link, URL, or text link description.

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

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

4.6.   We do not accept articles that have the same ACTIVE link more than once. Do not submit duplicate URLs.

4.7.   We will not accept articles with links (in the Article Body or Resource Box) to adult-oriented websites, including but not limited to websites that include pornography, adult-oriented sexual content.

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

5.      ARTICLE SUMMARY

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

5.2.    Every article must have a 2-5 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.

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

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

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

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

6.1.   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.