The editorial guidelines have been designed to help you understand what we
accept and don't accept for inclusion. Please read these guidelines before
submitting any personal experience, expert tips or external references on
the website.
Dealing-with-life.com Editorial Guidelines:
ANY CONTENT SUBMITTED MUST BE ORIGINAL AND WRITTEN BY YOU.
DO NOT POST ARTICLES YOU RIPPED-OFF FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN OR BOUGHT (PLR).
The article(s) submitted:
MUST BE informative, friendly and unique. The idea is to share your personal experiences and/or give expert advice.
MUST NOT be a press release, advertisement, sales letter, promotional copy, or blatant and excessive self-promotion or hype.
MUST BE in correct English; please double check the spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitalization and sentence structure.
MUST NOT contain pornography/adult material, hate or violence-oriented content, racial intolerance. It should not advocate against any individual or group, have insulting, obscene, degrading tone, or contain profanity.
MUST NOT contain information on: Hacking/cracking content, bomb creation, support for terrorism/ radicalism/ religious fanaticism, illicit drugs or drug paraphernalia, steroid use or advocacy, weapon/ firearms/ ammunition or the promotion of hard alcohol/tobacco-related products or prescription drugs.
MUST NOT contain any content that is considered defamatory, or infringes on the legal rights of others. It should not violate any law.
MUST NOT include a reply to a personal email, letter or other correspondence.
Dealing-with-life.com Editorial Guidelines:
a. ARTICLE TITLE:
i. The title should not have all caps.
ii. We do not accept quotes around your entire title.
iii. Do not end your title with a period "."
iv. We do not allow HTML tags of any kind in your title.
v. All titles start with "Dealing With"
vi. Your title must not be keyword stuffed; it should encourage readers to read the body
vii. We do not accept articles that use slang terms or profanity in the title.
viii. We do not accept articles that are not titled appropriately.
b. AUTHOR NAME:
i. Your full author name: You must include your first and last name.
ii. Your first and last name must begin with a capital letter.
iii. We do not allow company names as author names.
iv. We do not allow email addresses or URLs as author names.
v. You may not include your title after your author name unless you hold a doctorate-level degree (Dr., MD, DDS, PhD, etc.)
vi. We do not allow more than ONE account per person. Creating multiple accounts could result in all of your accounts being removed and banned.
vii. We do not allow numbers to be included in your author name.
c. PERSONAL EXPERIENCE BODY:
i. Must be a minimum of 250 words and no more than 1,000 words. For us, an ideal article size would be 450-750 words.
ii. Please do not repeat your title and author name at the top of the article body.
iii. Copyrights must come in the Experience Box (only for Expert Tips).
iv. 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.
v. Don’t sell yourself in the body content by including your URL or product pitch or blatant self-promotion. Instead use the Experience Box to pitch yourself or promote your website address (only for Expert Tips).
vi. Your article body must deliver on what is promised in the title. We do not accept teaser links or phrases that require the reader to click away from the article.
vii. The following HTML TAGS ARE ALLOWED in the RESOURCE BOX:
1) <b>BOLD</b>
2) <strong>STRONG</strong>
3) <i>ITALICS</i>
4) <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.
5) <pre> and </pre> To make a text table look right.
HTML TAGS NOTE: Be sure to CLOSE every tag that you OPEN. Common mistakes that an author will make are to OPEN a BOLD tag and then forget to CLOSE it, causing the rest of their article to look BOLDED.
The following HTML TAGS ARE NOT ALLOWED in the RESOURCE BOX:
<p> and </p> are not allowed anywhere in your article. To accomplish the same thing as the
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 it automatically inserts
tags.
<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.
d. WEBSITE LINKS/URLS:
There is a total limit of (2) active links/URLs allowed in the resource box for authors.
i. Maximum of (2) "Self-Serving" active or inactive links/URLs to a website that you own, control, or have an interest in.
ii. Confine your self-serving links to your Experience Box.
iii. Your links must not contain an option to download any file(s).
iv. 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.
v. We do not allow links to websites that are under construction. Websites must be active and have content for you to link to them from your article.
e. 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.
f. CATEGORY:
i. Article category and sub-category: Please choose the best category based on the theme of your article and not the theme of your business.