Guest Post & Sponsored Article Submissions

If you’ve got …

✔️ experience or stories to share

✔️ ideas to explore

✔️ new strategies and systems to talk about

✔️ actionable insights our audience can use

✔️ an advertorial or promotion to publish

✔️ or maybe you just like writing content for our audience type

Then, let’s work together to publish your article/s on the Optimise + Grow Online blog.

We love to accept articles our audience will find helpful and engaging.

Freelance writer submissions are welcome.

A successful guest blog is:

• Well researched
• Well written
• Original content
• Valuable to our audience (outlined below)

Submit useful, original content only

Please provide an unpublished article written by you. You must also provide appropriate attribution for any content in your post that is not yours (e.g., images, quotes, statistics, etc.).

Republish after 6 months (no sooner)

Please only republish your article no sooner than six months after it goes live on Optimise + Grow’s blog and attribute the original source with a backlink. This ensure that your post will not be considered duplicate content by search engines.

Share the article

Tweet, like, share to your social networks, and email the article to your email list. Add comments to the article. Promote and link to the article on your website. We do not include promotion of your post to our networks unless you have paid sponsorship placement.

Proofread, spell check, and format BEFORE you submit

Please take the time to make sure your submission has been:

• proofread by someone other than you
• makes logical sense and gives the reader some benefit or learning
• grammar and spell-checked for Australian English (not US or UK)
• formatted into easy to read paragraphs, and uses headings and subheadings appropriately

We will double-check the grammar, spelling, and formatting but if it’s sloppy, we are unlikely to publish it.

We do not accept articles that are…

• hateful or discriminatory
• political
• sexual
• promote harm or significant risk
• give specific financial or investment advice
• spammy
• poorly written
• do not offer our readers some value or takeaway learning

We reserve the right to request edits

If there is something we don’t feel comfortable publishing, you’ll be notified and given the opportunity to make changes. If you decide it will alter the article more than you like, you can opt to withdraw it.

Payment

All guest blog posts that provide value to our audience (including links to external sites of no competition to our business) are unpaid and free to submit as often as you like. The writer is unpaid, and it is free to share your approved article.

The following article types are posted only via paid placement:

• sponsored posts
• advertorials
• guest blogs that are promoting a competitor’s business
• guest blogs that are of no value to our direct audience
• guest blogs with affiliate links

These types of posts are accepted for a small advertising & publishing fee. Click here for details.

Backlinks, Exposure, Visibility

Backlinks and do-follow links are permitted, as long as they make sense and are to a non-spammy, non-competitive location.

You agree the article may be used in an ebook

We may choose to compile the best articles on our blog into an ebook. If that’s the case with your article, you will be attributed as the author which will provide more exposure. But there will be no compensation.

Disclosures

Keep everything straightforward. Disclose any affiliate links and acknowledge if you are referencing people or companies with which you have a commercial relationship, including if you work for, or as a representative for, a company you are promoting.

Nothing black hat

It should go without saying, but just in case, remember…

• No keyword stuffing
• No spammy links
• No plagiarism
• No taking credit for the work of others

No guarantees

Once we’ve received your blog post, remember that we’ll review it – but that doesn’t guarantee we’ll publish it. We’ll do our best to provide feedback when possible, but we’ll reject and ignore posts that are spammy, self-promotional, off-topic or not suitable for our outlined audience. Please understand that we probably won’t have time to explain if your post is rejected.