Editorial Guidelines

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CONTENT QUALIFICATIONS

  1. TrailerChix.com Editorial Guidelines:
    1. 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.
    2. 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 five lines of quoted or sourced material.
    3. MUST NOT be a press release, advertisement, sales letter, promotional copy, or blatant and excessive self-promotion or hype.
    4. MUST NOT: contain pornography/adult material, be hate or violence-oriented, suggest racial intolerance, advocate against any individual or group, have insulting, obscene, degrading tone, or contain profanity.
    5. MUST NOT SHAMEFULLY PROMOTE YOURSELF or promote email Safe-Lists as a good thing (they’re not) or bulk email spamming as a good thing (it’s not), or advocacy for paid auto-surf programs as a good thing (it’s not).
    6. MUST NOT contain any content that is a violation of any law, be considered defamatory, libelous, or infringes on the legal rights of others.
    7. MUST NOT be a submission of the exact same article as one that you already submitted. Some authors have submitted the same article multiple times with only a few words changed in the body — we reject these and ban authors who engage in this practice.
    8. MUST NOT include a reply to a personal email, letter or other correspondence.
  2. Editorial Guidelines: FORMAT
    1. Author(s) Name:
      1. YOUR FULL AUTHOR NAME: You must include your first and last name as the author of the article.
      2. Your AUTHOR NAME must have a First name and a Last name.
      3. We do allow “First name – Last initial” or “First initial – Last Name.”
      4. We do not allow company names to be your AUTHOR NAME.
      5. We do not allow email addresses or URLs to be your AUTHOR NAME.
      6. We do not allow numbers to be included in your Author Name.
    2. Article Body:
      1. Must be a minimum of 250 words and no more than 5,000 words. For us, an ideal article size is 400-800 words.
      2. Please do not repeat your TITLE and AUTHOR NAME at the top of the ARTICLE BODY.
      3. 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.
      4. 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. Website Links/URLs
      1. We do not accept links that use HTML to add style attributes to the link, URL, or text link description.
      2. We do not accept links formatted with Smart Quotes by using MS WORD.
      3. We will auto format valid URLs included in your RESOURCE BOX.
      4. Your links MAY NOT contain a file to be downloaded of any type.
      5. 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 RESOURCE BOX. We will reject your article if it contains a link of this nature.
    4. 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.
    5. Keywords: Articles without key words will not be accepted. Adding the top keywords related to your article helps us to bring more traffic to your article.Please make sure you put a comma between each KEYWORD.
      1. Ideally, your keywords should be optimized based on the most commonly searched keywords as published by Overture.com for your particular niche. It helps to use a good keyword research tool to help you determine which ones are best to use.
      2. You should have a minimum of 4-5 keywords and a maximum of 25.
      3. We do not accept keywords that are completely unrelated to the content of your article.
    6. 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.