Writing Guidelines For Elly McGuinness Holistic Health and Fitness
Thank you for your interest in writing a guest post for this holistic health and fitness website. Before you read on, please know that this blog has very specific requirements. If you are looking for a quick link back to your site, you’re best looking elsewhere.
We pride ourselves on producing high-quality articles that deliver significant value to readers. Please respect our time and yours by reading the guidelines thoroughly before submitting your pitch.
Elly would love to publish your interesting and engaging health and fitness article. However, if it is poorly written or doesn’t follow the guidelines below, we will send it back to you and ask you to amend it before we publish it. We reserve the right to decline to publish your article if we feel it doesn’t fit with the guidelines below.
We regularly get bloggers submitting their ideas and posts in a hurry. Please…if you want to write for this health and fitness website, we would love to hear from you! Just ensure you’re not taking any shortcuts and follow the directions below for the best chance of being published.
Originality
We only accept guest posts that are original content and not published anywhere else on the Internet. Duplicate or plagiarized content will not be accepted.
Tone
Any submitted content should be consistent with the rest of the website’s blog posts and reflect the philosophies and values outlined on our About page. Importantly, it should be positive, friendly, and authentic.
We are happy for you to include personal stories if they are relevant or to write a more scientific post if properly researched and referenced.
Content
We are looking for guest post submissions on the following topics:
- Physical fitness and workouts
- Health and fitness goals and motivation
- Healthy eating and recipes
- Holistic health (stress, sleep, meditation, relationships, increasing energy, etc. Articles about non-pseudo-science alternative health modalities will also be considered)
- Diet-free weight loss
- Health and fitness during pregnancy
- Mom fitness and health
If you are discussing a concept that isn’t widely accepted or understood, it must be properly referenced to a credible source. This could be a site like WebMD or a respected online medical journal.
Please don’t include affiliate links, but YOU MUST link any specific claims to supporting research in medical journals. You can also include a link to a relevant, non-competing article on your own site if it’s a natural fit. Any linking should be contextual and use existing anchor text.
Word count
We are looking for posts with a minimum of 1,200 words of original content. Please do not try to ‘compromise’ with us on this word count. We have chosen this (absolute minimum) word count for value-add purposes (for the reader) and for search engine purposes. The minimum required length will help us get your post found in search engines!
Most of our posts (and many posts) that rank on page one of Google are a minimum of 2000-3000 words. We are simply asking for a minimum of 1200 words to help both your site and ours.
Formatting and Grammar
Please use sub-headings (H2, H3, etc) and bullet-point lists as appropriate. The maximum number of words under any sub-heading should be 300. Keep paragraphs short and include plenty of short sentences to ensure the article is easy to read, especially on a mobile device.
Please don’t format the post in any other way (avoid bold, underlining, font changes, or font size changes). We will format it to be consistent with our website format.
Please do not double-space after periods or between paragraphs.
You MUST run your article through a tool such as Grammarly before sending it to us (it’s free).
Article Title
Your proposed article title(s) must be put through this headline analyzer and receive a score of 70 or above. Do this before sending us your pitch.
What’s in it for you?
Since we do not compensate our guest writers, each accepted guest post will include an author bio with 2-4 sentences about the author and one (1) dofollow link back to your homepage. As mentioned above, you may also include one link to your own site in the article if it is relevant, natural, and helpful to the reader. (Please do not include affiliate links).
You will get your name and work out to our quickly expanding audience of like-minded followers.
You can expect your article and links to remain on this site permanently as long as it exists. Please do not ask us to remove your article if you change your mind later. Removing a post from a website is like removing a wall from a house. We can, however, remove your name from your post if you decide you would prefer not to be associated with it at any point.
How to submit a guest post
Please email elly at ellymcguinness dot com with 2-4 proposed titles. Also, share the link to the website you want to link back to so we can check it is suitable. Elly will either accept one of your titles or ask you to resubmit new ideas.
Once your idea is accepted, we can work together on a timeline for when you can finish the post and publish it. You can then write it and submit it to us in Google Docs format. Do not write the article until your title has been approved.
When your article topic and keywords have been approved, and you are ready to submit your article, please take note of the following:
Include a 2-4 sentence bio and your homepage link with your submission.
Gravatar and photos
Ensure that you have uploaded a globally recognized avatar (Gravatar). This holistic health and fitness site is ‘Gravatar Enabled’, which means your photo will automatically appear with your bio when we add you as an ‘author’ on the site. It also means that your photo will show up whenever you comment on the blog post or on any other Gravatar-enabled sites. This will help you to create a consistent and recognized brand.
If you would like specific photo(s) included with your post, please ensure they are high resolution and sized to 800x450px. If you do not send photos, we will select suitable stock photos for the post.
Personal photos can really enhance the article’s authenticity, so do send them through if they are relevant. This is mandatory if you are telling a personal story. Elly will review and make any changes, then run the final version by you before publishing.
We will add internal links, CTAs, and affiliate links where relevant
We will include links in your post that naturally link to other posts on our site or to other sites we know and respect. We may include relevant CTA’s for the reader that take them to other pages, products, or services. We will also link TO your post from other relevant articles on our site, increasing the chances for your post to rank in search engines.
Please let us know if you have an affiliate program relevant to your post. We will consider joining your affiliate program before adding any of our own affiliate links to the post, but we do reserve the right to add affiliate links of our own.
“Thank you in advance for your interest in wanting to write for ellymcguinness.com. I look forward to hearing from you soon”