Editorial Guidelines for Articles
Editorial Guidelines For Articles
These editorial guidelines are designed to help you understand the qualifications for an acceptable article on numerology4you.com’s article database.
1. Article Content: Your Article must be original content that you wrote or had written for you. No Private Label Articles, or Articles taken from the Public Domain.
2. No Affiliate Program Links: If I find them, I will either reject the article, or remove the links before publishing the article. It is ok to mention the URL of a helpful site, or to link to your own pages that then redirect to the affiliate product.
3. Value for Readers: MUST NOT be a press release, advertisement, sales letter, promotional copy, or blatant and excessive self-promotion or hype.
4. Proper English: Please use proper English, spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitalization and sentence structure. Your article must also be proofed and double checked for accuracy.
5. No Adult Material: MUST NOT contain pornography/adult material, hate or violence-oriented, suggest racial intolerance, advocate against any individual, have insulting-obscene-degrading tone, or contain excess profanity.
6. No Undesirable Material: MUST NOT contain information on: hacking/cracking content, auto-surf program advocacy or promotion, bomb creation, support for terrorism/ radicalism/ religious fanaticism, illicit drugs or drug paraphernalia, steroid use or advocacy, weapon/ firearms/ ammunition/ balisongs/ butterfly knives or brass knuckles, or the promotion of hard alcohol/tobacco-related products or prescription drugs.
7. No Illegal Material: MUST NOT contain any content that is a violation of any law, be considered defamatory, libelous, or infringes on the legal rights of others.
8. No Duplicate Articles: 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.
9. Article Title Restrictions: Titles must be upper and Lower case; No HTML, No All Caps, No Leading Spaces, No Website URL’s, No Quotes around Whole title, No period at the end.
10. Article Length: Must be a minimum of 250 words, and a maximum of 2,500 words. Ideal size is 400 to 1000 words long.
11. Avoid Hard Sell: If you hard sell in the ARTICLE BODY by including your URL or product pitch or blatant self-promotion, I will toss your article without notice. The RESOURCE BOX is where you get to promote yourself.
12. Valid HTML Tags: I allow the following HTML tags in your articles:
a. <b>BOLD</b>
b. <i>ITALICS</i>
c. <u>UNDERLINE</u>
d. <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.
e. I do allow ACTIVE website URLs in the body of your article as long as they are not abused.
f. <pre> and </pre> To make a text table look right.
g. <blockquote>TO INDENT A PARAGRAPH</blockquote>
13. Invalid HTML Tags: I don’t allow the following HTML tags:
a. <JAVASCRIPT> is not allowed in any form.
b. <IMG SRC> Image tags are NOT allowed.
c. FONT SIZE changes or COLOR tags are NOT allowed.
d. <H1>, <H2>, <H3>, etc. tags are NOT allowed.
e. The <HR> horizontal line tag is NOT allowed.
f. Microsoft Word Smart Quotes are not valid HTML code. Do not include them in any of your HTML statements.
14. < span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">ACTIVE LINKS / YOUR URL: I allow up to 3 "Self-Serving" Links/URLs, active or inactive, in your article / Resource Box. A "Self-Serving" Link/URL is a link/URL to a website that you own, control or have an interest in. You are also limited to no more than (6) total active links per article.
No Links / URL’s allowed in the top half of your article. Please use the Resource Box for your self serving links.