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CONTENT QUALIFICATIONS

To Be Qualified For Our Site, Your Article:

MUST BE AN ORIGINAL ARTICLE THAT YOU WROTE. If you work for an author as an employee or contractor and are submitting the article, please submit the article as if it was from the original author including his or her email address and name.

MUST NOT CONTAIN AFFILIATE PROGRAM LINKS.

MUST BE informative. Please include tips, strategies, techniques, case-studies, analysis, opinions and commentary in your articles.

MUST NOT be a press release, advertisement, sales letter, promotional copy, or blatant and 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 excess profanity.

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

MUST NOT be a near duplicate of a previously accepted submission.


Counseling-Articles.com Editorial Guidelines: (FORMAT)

TITLE: Your Title MUST Be In Upper and Lower Case Letters With The First Letter of Each Major Word Capitalized.

If you submit your TITLE in all CAPS, we will change to "Upper and Lower Caps."

It is ok not to capitalize common words such as "a" - "the" - "to" - "for" etc...unless you want to. We accept these either way.

Please do not put QUOTES around your entire TITLE. This makes very little sense to us. If you want to use a quote or an apostrophe to call attention to one word or a phrase, this is ok, but the entire TITLE must not have quotes around itself.

Do NOT end your TITLE with a period.

Please do not submit Microsoft Word smart quotes in your title. This includes quotes, apostrophe's, double dashes, and 3 dots in a row. Replace smart quotes with standard quotes/apostrophe's/double dashes/or 3 periods in a row.
Refrain from excessive repetitive punctuation in your TITLE. One exclamation "!" or question mark "?" is enough to make a point.

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

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

Please do NOT repeat your TITLE in the ARTICLE BODY.

Your TITLE must not be keyword stuffed (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.


YOUR FULL AUTHOR NAME: You must include your first and last name as the author of the article.

Your AUTHOR NAME must have a First name and a Last name.
We do allow "First name - Last initial" or "First initial - Last Name."
We do not allow two initials for your AUTHOR NAME.
Your First and Last name must begin with a Capital Letter.
We do not allow company names to be your AUTHOR NAME.
We do not allow email addresses to be your AUTHOR NAME.
We do not allow adjectives or nouns or descriptors to be part of your AUTHOR NAME.
We do not allow religious titles before or after your name.

ALTERNATE AUTHOR NAMES: We only allow one author membership account per human but you are allowed to have alternate author names under your account (such as a pen-name or if you are an author's assistant or manage articles for multiple different author's).

ALL of the same rules for the FULL AUTHOR NAME above apply to the ALTERNATE AUTHOR NAMES.
The AUTHOR TERMS OF SERVICE applys to any ALTERNATE AUTHOR NAMES just as it does to you directly, so be sure you have written permission to submit the articles under any ALTERNATE AUTHOR NAME that you might setup.

ARTICLE BODY: Must be a minimum of 250 words and no more than 5,000 words. For us, an ideal article size is 400-750 words.

Please do not repeat your TITLE and AUTHOR NAME at the top of the ARTICLE BODY. We will remove it.

Copyrights must be at the bottom of your article. If you put it at the top of your article, we will move it to the bottom of the article body.
 
If you include a REPRINT RIGHTS statement in your article, it must be at the BOTTOM of your article. If you put it at the top, we will move it to the bottom. 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.

If you sell hard in the ARTICLE BODY by including your URL or product pitch or blatant self-promotion, we will reject your article without notice.

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>
<XMP> and </XMP> are used to display HTML code if you want to show the HTML code but not have our system interpret your code as HTML commands.
<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 simplier to reprint.

HTML TAGS NOTE: Be sure to CLOSE every tag that you OPEN. A common mistake that an author will do is OPEN a BOLD tag and then forget to CLOSE it causing the rest of their article to look BOLDED when they didn't intend for that.

We do allow ACTIVE website URLs in the body of your article. Please read the section below on "WEBSITE ACTIVE LINKS / YOUR URL" for a detailed explanation of what is and is not allowed.

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.

Please do not submit articles with excessive HARD LINE BREAKS. A hard line break is when you use the HTML <P> or <BR> tag to force a carriage return rather than allowing each line to wrap naturally. We may either reject or convert any articles that are sent in with hard line breaks. It's ok to force a hard line break when you're making a small list of items but it's not ok to arbitrarily force hard line returns on every single line at a certain character width.

At the very END of your ARTICLE BODY, please help us by removing any excess vertical spaces and do not include any HTML tags that would create or force the creation of additional vertical spaces after the end of your ARTICLE BODY.

WEBSITE ACTIVE LINKS / YOUR URL: We allow a maximum of 3 "Self-Serving" Links/URLs, active or inactive, in your article. A "Self-Serving" Link/URL is a link/URL to a website that you own, control or have an interest in.

Whenever possible, please try to confine your self-serving links to your RESOURCE BOX.

There is a total active link limit of (6) active links per article, i.e.: A maximum of (3) "Self-Serving" active links that you have a relationship with and a maximum of (3) active non-self serving links.

Sorry, 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."
You can use HTML code to make your link active but be sure to not include font attributes or break tags (<br>) in your HREF statements.

Double check your active links before submitting to be sure they work. Your article will be rejected if your website links do not work.

EMAIL 'MAILTO:' LINKS: We highly recommend including a link to your website but do not advocate including a mailto: or email link to your personal or work email account. Spammers will abuse it. It's better to include a valid website URL and let potential customers find your email address on your website.

ARTICLE SUMMARY: Every article must have a 2-5 sentence article summary and not exceed 200 words. The purpose of the ARTICLE SUMMARY is to give an abstract or summary of the benefits that your article delivers.

If you don't know what to put in your summary, just use the first paragraph of your article.
We do not allow HTML tags of any kind in your ARTICLE SUMMARY.
We do not allow blatant self-promotion in your ARTICLE SUMMARY.
We do not allow your AUTHOR NAME to be in your ARTICLE SUMMARY.
We do not allow any website URL or Email Address to be in your ARTICLE SUMMARY.