Editorial Guidelines for Submitting To Religion.Adherents.com

The following editorial guidelines are to help you understand what we accept and don't accept for inclusion on our website. Before you submit to our site, please read this page first.

 

1. Editorial Guidelines: (CONTENT)

To qualify for our site, your article:

• MUST BE AN ORIGINAL ARTICLE. The article must not be published anywhere else on the web.
• MUST NOT BE AN ARTICLE YOU RIPPED-OFF FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. we do not want more than one copy of any article on our site.
• MUST 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.
• MUST NOT be a press release, excessive self-promotion or hype.
• MUST HAVE proper English, spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitalization and sentence structure.
• MUST 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.
• MUST NOT contain information on: terrorism/ radicalism/ religious fanaticism.
• MUST NOT contain excessive and/or bolded keywords/ phrases. Bolding is limited to headings and subheadings.

 

 

2. Religion.Adherents.com Editorial Guidelines: (FORMAT)

ARTICLE TITLE:

1. Your Title MUST Be In Upper and Lower Case Letters With The First Letter of Each Major Word Capitalized (We will not accept your TITLE in all CAPS).
2. Do NOT end your TITLE with a period.
3. Refrain from excessive repetitive punctuation in your TITLE. One exclamation "!" or question mark "?" is enough to make a point.
4. We do not allow HTML tags of any kind in the TITLE.
5. We do not allow your AUTHOR NAME or any WEBSITE URL to be in your TITLE.
6. Your TITLE must not be keyword stuffed and should be a TITLE that any human could easily appreciate.
7. We do not accept One Word as the article TITLE, a MINIMUM of two unique words is required.
8. We do not accept articles that use slang terms or profanity in the TITLE.
9. We do not accept articles that do not deliver on the article title. You must deliver in the article body on the promises made in the article title.

 

AUTHOR NAME:

1. YOUR FULL AUTHOR NAME: You must include your first and last name as the author of the article.
2. Your First and Last name must begin with a Capital Letter.
3. We do not allow company names to be your AUTHOR NAME.
4. We do not allow email addresses or URLs to be your AUTHOR NAME.
5. We do not allow adjectives or nouns or descriptors to be a part of your AUTHOR NAME.
6. You may NOT include your title after your AUTHOR NAME unless you hold a doctorate-level degree (Dr., MD, DDS, PhD, etc.)
7. We do not allow numbers to be included in your Author Name.

 

ARTICLE BODY:

1. Must be a minimum of 350 words and no more than 5,000 words. For us, an ideal article size is 400-750 words.
2. Please do not repeat your TITLE and AUTHOR NAME at the top of the ARTICLE BODY.
3. Copyrights must be at the bottom of your article.
4. If you include a REPRINT RIGHTS statement in your article, it must be at the BOTTOM of your article.
5. If you sell hard in the ARTICLE BODY by including your URL or product pitch or blatant self-promotion, we will toss your article without notice. The AUTHORS INFORMATION is where you get to pitch yourself or your website address.
6. 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.
7. The following HTML TAGS ARE ALLOWED in the ARTICLE BODY:
   
   
   • <b>BOLD</b>
   • <strong>STRONG</strong>
   • <i>ITALICS</i>
   • <em>EMPHASIS</em>
   • <u>UNDERLINE</u>
   • <br> is used to force a hard line return. Use this HTML tag to prevent our system from trying to wrap your short sentences together into one paragraph.
   • <pre> and </pre> To make a text table look right.
   • <blockquote>TO INDENT A PARAGRAPH</blockquote>
   • <OL> and <UL> tags to create a NUMBERED LIST or a BULLET POINT list. See the Essential HTML article link below for further instructions on how to implement if this is your first time using these tags. These are OPTIONAL tags as you can always just left justify a numbered list or * asterisks for bullets and it makes your article much simpler to reprint.
     
     
8. The following HTML TAGS ARE NOT ALLOWED in the ARTICLE BODY:
   
   
   • <p> and </p> are not allowed anywhere in your article. To accomplish the same thing as the <p> tag, just make sure there is one vertical space between each of your paragraphs. Our system interprets vertical spaces between paragraphs as an indication that the paragraph has ended and we insert behind-the-scenes the <p> tags so you don't have to.
   • <JAVASCRIPT> is not allowed in any form.
   • <IMG SRC> Image tags are NOT allowed.
   • FONT SIZE changes or COLOR tags are NOT allowed.
   • <H1>, <H2>, <H3>, etc. tags are NOT allowed.
   • The <HR> horizontal line tag is NOT allowed.
     
     
9. We do not accept articles that use any ALLOWED HTML in the article body that is not relevant to a specific heading, subheading, or defined text.
10. Your article MUST be single spaced, MUST use appropriate paragraph breaks, and MUST use correct formatting for bulleted or numbered lists. We will not accept articles that are not single spaced, that do not use paragraphs to appropriately break up the body text, or that provide bulleted or numbered lists that are not formatted correctly.
    

 

WEBSITE LINKS/URLS There is a total limit of (4) active or inactive links allowed in the article, which consists of both the BODY and the RESOURCE BOX.

1. Maximum of (2) "Self-Serving" active or inactive links/URLs to a website that you own, control, or have an interest in.
2. Maximum of (2) active or inactive non-self serving links/URLs to a website that you do not own, control, or have an interest in which adds value to the article.
3. Confine your self-serving links to your RESOURCE BOX.
4. We do not accept articles with active or inactive links in the first 1-3 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."
5. We do not accept links that use HTML to add style attributes to the link, URL, or text link description.
6. Your links MAY NOT contain a file to be downloaded of any type.
7. We do not knowingly allow any URLs in any of our articles that are banned by Google or if your website engages in questionable SEO practices -- we may reject your articles.
8. We do not accept articles that have the same ACTIVE link more than once. Do not submit duplicate URLs.
9. 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.
   
   
• Example: Within your article, you link the word "bird dog" to an article that you wrote about bird dogging. This is a good example of an anchored text link vs. linking the same text to your home page as it doesn't really add value.
  
  
10. 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.
11. We do not allow links to websites that are under construction. Websites must be active and have content in order for you to link to them from your article. We will reject your article if it contains a link of this nature.
    

 

KEYWORDS: Adding the top keywords related to your article helps us to bring more traffic to your article.

1. Please make sure you put a comma between each KEYWORD.
2. You should have a minimum of 4-5 keywords.
3. We do not accept keywords that are completely unrelated to the content of your article.
   

 

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

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.

1. We do not allow HTML tags of any kind in your ARTICLE SUMMARY.
2. We do not allow blatant self-promotion in your ARTICLE SUMMARY.
3. We do not allow your AUTHOR NAME to be in your ARTICLE SUMMARY.
4. We do not allow any website URL or Email Address to be in your ARTICLE SUMMARY
   

 

CATEGORY:

ARTICLE CATEGORY: Please choose the best category based on the religious topic / background of your article.

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