Editorial Guidelines For Guest Blog Writers

When creating content as a guest blog writer, it’s crucial to adhere to specific editorial guidelines. These guidelines are designed to enhance your writing and ensure your material resonates with our audience. When guest posting, focus on topics relevant to your industry, target audience, and offer unique insights.

Our Editorial Guidelines apply to all members who submit original content. Failure to comply with the Editorial Guidelines may result in unpublished content, account suspension, or termination.

Accuracy & Fact-Checking

Ensure the writing is clear, engaging, and free from grammatical errors. Posts should provide value to our audience, offering insights, tips, or unique perspectives. See Near Me prohibits the publication of deliberately misleading information. All members are responsible for fact-checking their own stories. Our editorial team may remove content that's not properly fact-checked.

Word Count & Links

• 1 author link to your See Near Me webpage (required).
• 2 external links to pages on your business website.

Fairness

Members should not intentionally omit information that helps provide the whole picture or adds vital context to understanding a story. Members should be motivated to get as close to the truth as possible and should refer to an individual's race, gender, or sexuality only when pertinent to the story.

Attribution

Members must attribute the source unless the source lacks credibility. References to other reporting must be hyperlinked unless the sources are not credible. Members who recount others' experiences must never present them as their own.

Impartiality

Members should seek to avoid bias in their storytelling. The Impartiality policy does not apply to Members who offer their opinions on local happenings, restaurants, etc.

Fabrication

Falsifying information and presenting it as fact is strictly prohibited and will result in immediate account termination.

Quotations

Members must accurately quote individuals, sources, and documents and never take words or actions out of context. Where quotes have been shortened for length, members should indicate that's the case by using ellipses.

Clickbait

The use of clickbait by members is prohibited. Clickbait is a headline that deliberately teases, misleads, or omits critical information to elicit clicks and does not accurately represent the article's content.

Prior Review from Sources

We prohibit members from sending stories to sources for approval before their publication. In some cases, a source is allowed to see a copy of her quotes, or a member may send an excerpt to a source to ensure accuracy. However, sources should never get a final sign-off on a piece before publication.

Expertise

To represent yourself or a person as an expert in public health, medicine, academia, mental health, science, or other professions, we require proven expertise in the topic area and the appropriate professional licenses necessary for members to offer analysis.

Video

Videos deliberately manipulated to mischaracterize an event or subject are strictly prohibited. Contributors may also not edit videos so that the content appears out of context or changes the material's meaning. See Near Me prohibits the use of video captured surreptitiously with malicious intent or in any manner that violates the law, including, but not limited to, filming someone without their permission in an embarrassing or inappropriate environment. Deepfakes are prohibited unless they are the subject of the story and clearly labeled for the audience.

Photos

Include 1 high-quality image (minimum 72 DPI for images) and appropriately sized (ideally 1200 x 800 pixels). Ensure you have the proper rights to use the media or use royalty-free resources. Provide captions and alt text for all images to improve accessibility. Cropping and minor adjustments to tone and color density are acceptable if they don't alter the photo's meaning. Cropping an individual from an image to intentionally mislead is prohibited. In photos or videos, members must blur the faces of minors unless the child's photo has been released by law enforcement or the parents have given permission. We encourage members to blur alleged victims' faces in certain stories about sexual assault where the accuser wishes to remain anonymous.

Conflicts of Interest

Members should avoid reporting on friends or family unless it is essential to telling a story. Members should not accept gifts from sources of coverage. Members should refrain from covering subject matter from which they would directly benefit. Members must disclose conflicts of interest at the top of the story in such cases.

Submission Process

Join our platform to create, manage, and edit your articles and author bio. To reduce broken links and spam, articles will be unpublished automatically when an account expires. An active account is required to keep articles published.