If you have an idea for a guest post, email me and pitch your idea. If I accept, then send me a post of at least 500 words. If you go over that, I will edit it down to that, cutting out dead words and less important stuff. But nothing goes up till we are both happy with it.
The best guest posts will be about something you like or know more about than I do but which would not seem out of place on this blog.
Posts on this blog take this form:
- The title – says what the post is about. It should be close to what someone would put into a search engine to find it. So plainness matters way more than wit.
- A picture – that gives readers some idea of what the post is about, the cooler or more interesting the picture the better. If you have no ideas of what you want, put the title into Google Images and see what comes up. If you cannot come up with a picture, I will. You can provide more than one picture if you want, but I will use no more than ten.
- 500 words – give or take 20. If you love your subject, and you probably do since otherwise you would not want to write about it, it will be hard to put it into just 500 words. That is all right – you can go over 500 words. You can go way over, up to 10,000 words if you want. But I will still cut it down to 500 words (or maybe into a few standalone posts of 500 words each). Of course, if you cut it down to 500 words yourself, it will be lightly edited and closer to your liking. Put words in bold for skimmers if you can (not all posts are suited for that).
- Other possible content – like video and audio is all right, but the post should not depend on it. Video links, in particular, rot quickly and will make your post meaningless in a year or so if you depend on it too much.
- See also – is a list of links to related material at the end of the post. Try to keep it between two and seven links. The fewer links you put, the more likely people will follow them. But no matter how few you put most people will skip right over them. Try to avoid having links in the body of your post – in most cases they will destroy your flow.
The 500 or more words is all that I require. I can provide the rest.
After I receive the materials, I will make it into a post and send it back to you. You can make whatever changes you want, even undo changes that I made. Nine times out of ten I will post whatever you send back. There might be further rounds of changes, but in practice that is rare. Once we are both happy with it, it goes up, in most cases within 24 hours.
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Does this mean you’re not doing a post on Rama Yade?
You want me to write it instead???
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Thanks a lot.
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@ King:
Yes, I intend to Rama Yade. This post was not meant as a hint. I just wanted to put all this in one place I can point people to instead of writing it out in emails.
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@ Abagond
Oh great. You’ll do a much better job of it than I would.
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@ Abagond,
Thanks for the guidelines. I have emailed my guest post on white celebrities saving Africa to the email with which I receive alerts from.
Hope that will work.
Thanks.
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Malkia:
Send it to abagond at gmail.com.
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