Submission Guidelines for ArticleMap.com

1. Article Submission

a. Submitting your articles to us is free.

b. At the same time, you do not receive any financial compensation as a result of your contribution.

b. Before submitting your article, please make sure that your article is not already submitted.

c. Submitting multiple copies of the same article using different titles, or with only slight modifications is strictly forbidden.

d. Submit to only ONE relevant category per article. Submissions to multiple categories will result in ALL your articles being removed, and in extreme and repeated cases, banned from future submission. Also, if the content in your article is not appropriate to the category that it is submitted under, it stands being deleted.

e. If you are an author's assistant submitting on behalf of the author, you must use the author's full name, the author's email address and other required information.

2. Article Content

For your article to be accepted and published at ArticleMap, the article:

a. Must be original and written by you. You may not submit articles written by other authors and the content must be unique. No rebranded articles are allowed. You must be the sole copyright holder for each article you submit. Articles written by a ghost writer are perfectly acceptable as long as they are being used only by yourself.

b. Must be informative and share your own unique experience. Your article should serve to educate and inform rather than just a promotional piece. Include tips, strategies, techniques, case-studies, analysis, opinions and commentary in your articles.

c. Must not be dentrimental to the interests of society at large. It must not contain information on: hacking/cracking content, bomb creation, gambling, support for terrorism/ radicalism/ religious fanaticism, illicit drugs or drug paraphernalia, weapon/ firearms/ ammunition/ balisongs/ butterfly knives or brass knuckles, or the promotion of hard alcohol/tobacco-related products or prescription drugs.

c. Must be grammatically correct. Please have your article proof read before submitting.

d.Must not be offensive. Articles must not promote hate, racism, pornography, hacking, and other illegal and/or offensive activities.

e. Must not contain direct affiliate links. Please see section 4 below for more details.

f. Must not contain Popups. Links in the article must not activate popups when clicked.

g. Must not contain Javascripts. Javascripts in any form are not allowed.

h. Must not violate any Laws. Articles submitted must not infringe on trademarks, copyrights and anything that is against the Law.

3. Article Format

a. Title

i. The article title must be in initial caps.

ii. No Author or Website Name is allowed in the title.

iii. No HTML tags are allowed in the title.

iv. Do not put a "period" or "full-stop" at the end of the title.

b. Body

i. The article must be 400 words minimum and 1000 words maximum. The ideal article size to us is between 500 to 800 words.

ii. Do not repeat the article title in the article body.

iii. Do not submit articles that are pre-formatted with excessive hard carriage returns such as articles that are preformated to 60-65 characters per line. The article text should flow continuously and wrap naturally. To effect a new line, hit the "Enter" key once; to effect a new paragraph, hit the "Enter" key twice to create a vertical white space.

iv. The following HTML tags are allowed in the article body:
Bold tag:
<b> </b>
Italics tag:
<i> </i>
Underline tag:
<u> </u>
Indent tag:
<blockquote> </blockquote>

v. The following HTML tags are disallowed in the article body:
Paragraph tag: <p> </p>
Break tag: <br>
Image tag: <img src>
Font tag: <font> </font>
Header tag: <h1>, <h2>, <h3>, etc.
Horizontal Rule tag: <hr>

c. Author Name and Alternate Author Names

i. Your Full Author Name
In order to submit your articles, you will first need to create your "Author Name". This serves as your public profile and identifies you as the author of the article.

The author name must comprise of a Full First Name and a Last Name to minimise confusion with some other authors with the same name.

ii. Alternate Author Names
We only allow ONE member account per person. However, you may have unlimited "Alternate Author Names" under your account. This situation will apply if you are an author assistant submitting articles on behalf of the authors.

d. Website Links (See Section 4 below for more information)

i. Only a maximum of three links (active and inactive) of websites that you own, control or have an interest in, are allowed per article.

ii. Please confine the above mentioned of three maximum links to the resource box.

iii. Do not include the same link or url more than once in the author resource box.

iv. For active links, please include the html codes. Otherwise, please include your full website url address.

v. Links or website url that are allowed in the article body include:

Special Case #1 - Well-Known Sites

You may include links to Google, CNN, Microsoft, etc. Publishers are familiar with these sites and will not feel that the author is engaging in advertising.

Special Case #2 - Multiple Competing Sites

You may include links to competitive sites if your article is a review or comparison of an industry or solution. You must include at least three competitors, with fully qualified links, and you must speak with some authority about each one. Your site (even though it is a self-serving link) may be included as one (1) of the competitive sites in the article.

Special Case #3 - Multiple Complementary Sites

You may include links to helpful resources around the web if your article is a “helpful resources” article. You must include at least three resources and they must be related in some way to the theme of the article. If you include (for example) a travel agency, a web template resource and the restaurant on the corner, the article must show how those three sites are related to help a reader solve a problem.

e. Article Summary

i. Every article must have an article summary. This serves as a brief overview of your article and is used for listing purposes.

ii. You may use the first paragraph of your article as the article summary if you do not know what to put in there.

iii. No blatant self-promotions is allowed in the article summary.

iii. No HTML in whatever form is allowed in the article summary.

iv. No Author Name, Company Name, Website Address and/or Email Address are allowed in the article summary.

4. Affiliate Programs and Affiliate Links

a. The articles that you submit to ArticleMap.com should not contain affiliate links.

b. If you are promoting affiliate programs via articles (these must be articles that you have 100% sole ownership and copyrights), you will need to use your own website link(s) and redirect it to your affiliate website. The link(s) cannot be placed at the body of the article; it must be strictly confined to the author resource box.

c. Do not submit articles that are owned and copyrighted by so-called "Gurus" and substituting the link at the resource box with your affiliate URL. These articles will be rejected because you are not the author. Also, your account will be deleted if you are caught doing so.

5. Article submitted is subject to review and approval before being published.

Finally, all articles submitted are subject to review and may be rejected for any one of the reasons cited above. However, please note that we are not obliged to provide you with any reasons when we reject your article.