Article Submission Guidelines
Article submissions to GMOArticles are free and
new additions to our database are indexed once a day or every 24 hours.
This means that any article you submit will be searchable by, and
available to, visitors the day after it is submitted.
GMOArticles.com's ability to remain a free
service to everyone is due to advertiser support. We reserve the right
to publish ads on the same pages as your articles, to include ads in
email alerts and/or XML feeds of any kind.
Your article content must meet the submission
guidelines of our aggressive pre-screening process to include the
following guidelines:
- Submissions must be 100% exclusively owned by you. If you are
submitting for someone else, please submit the article as if it were
from them.
- Submit your article only once. Duplicate submissions will not be
accepted.- There is no tolerance for this practice and authors who
practice in this will be banned.
- Submissions that are commercial or advertorial in content are not
acceptable. This includes: advertisements, sales letters, promotional
copy, or articles with blatant/excessive self-promotion or hype.GMOArticles is a free-content directory not a platform for advertising
commercial products, services and/or programs.
- Submissions must be a minimum of 300 words. Articles must be informative by providing useful content.
- Submissions must not tease the reader to another site to get the full effect. Your article content must deliver on the promise.
- Submissions cannot not be plagiarized or in violation of another
author's copyright. Refer to our copyright policy for more information.
- Submissions must not contain or reference adult/ pornographic
content, defamatory, libelous, inflammatory or offensive, that promote
hate literature or illegal activities or that are in violation of
another person's, or companies, rights or & trademarks.
- Submissions must not contain content on terrorism/illegal
drugs/firearms or the promotion of prescription drugs or hard
alcohol/tobacco related products.
- Submissions must not include tag (keyword) clouds.
- Submissions must contain proper English, spelling, grammar,
punctuation, capitalization and sentence structure and should be proof
read by you or another party prior to submission.
- Submissions must not be spun or be PLR (Private Label Rights) articles or term papers/essays for sale.
Article Criteria
Article submissions are subject to length restrictions. These are outlined below:
Article Title: Maximum 150 characters.
Article: A minimum of 300 words and a maximum of 2,500 words. (Max 15K Characters)
Author Bio: 400 characters
Please Note: These character limits include all
spaces, line breaks, paragraph breaks and punctuation, so the actual
number of characters will be less than the above numbers.
Article Formatting and Links
We strongly recommend that authors submitting to GMOArticles copy and
paste articles from a basic text editor like Notepad or NoteTab Light.
Following this suggestion will ensure that paragraph breaks, line length
and other basic formatting will be properly handled by our submission
form. Copying and pasting content from applications like MS Word can and
does result in a variety of formatting problems. These applications use
non-ASCII (sometimes invisible) characters that are copied with article
content into the submission form, causing articles to appear
differently from the way they were submitted.
Keeping the above in mind, it is not necessary for authors to use html
tags for specifying font size or to create paragraph and line breaks.
Use of HTML should be minimal and we suggest HTML tags only be used for
creating live links to sites, services or products. Any link that begins
with "http://" will automatically be clickable. For example,
"http://www.gmoarticles.com" would appear as a hyperlink. To hyperlink a
word or phrase, HTML anchor tags need to be placed around that word or
phrase.
Example: Free Content Article Search Engine
Other Submission Guidelines:
- Titles must NOT contain any URLs.
- Titles must be more than one word.
- Titles must NOT have HTML tags of any kind.
- Titles must NOT be all upper case or lower case letters.
- Titles must NOT contain repetitive punctuation such as !!! or ???
- Titles must NOT contain the names of prescription drugs or affiliate programs.
- Duplicate links to the same URL in the article body are not allowed.
- Links in the article body should relate to, or support, your article content.
- Links that are only used for keyword anchoring to your site(s) are not allowed.
- Promotional links for your site, service or product should be restricted to your Author Bio.
Free and Re-Printable Content
GMOArticles is a free content article directory. This means that any
webmaster, publisher, or editor may re-print your article(s) subject to
the basic terms and conditions outlined on this site. You are granting
unconditional permission for your articles to be reprinted on other
websites or print publications.
GMOArticles policy prohibits the use of copyrighted material in a
manner that violates the copyright owner's rights. In general, this
means that authors should only submit their own original written work to
which they have natural copyright.
In cases where copyright is disputed, articles will be immediately
removed without recourse or discussion, regardless of the arguments
presented by the disputing parties. Authors who are found to be in
breach of copyright will be banned and all of their submitted content
removed.
Actions to Take in the Event of Copyright Violation:
GMOArticles is a free content article directory. We act as an
intermediary between authors and publishers and post guidelines for both
regarding copyright adherence. Copyright resides with the authors who
submit to our directory, not with us. As a consequence, GMOArticles has
no legal standing to enforce copyright on behalf of authors.
In the event of copyright violation, we advise authors to exercise
their rights under The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 by
taking the following steps:
1. Contact the offending party directly asking them to rectify the copyright violation.
2. If the above fails, contact the ISP that hosts the offending
website and the domain registrar that holds the registration for the
website domain.
Information for the domain registrar and hosting service can generally
be obtained by doing a lookup using any WhoIs service such as:
http://www.whois.net
http://www.networksolutions.com
3. Most Domain Registrars and ISPs will respond to a copyright
enforcement request by warning or suspending the offending party. If
they fail to do so, have a lawyer make the same request in writing. This
last action rarely fails to produce results.
Note: GMOArticles reserves the right to remove any
article or articles for any reason with or without notice or
explanation. In cases where the above or other guidelines are severely
abused, so-called authors will be banned. All authors must also agree to
our Terms of Service.
Disclaimer
The articles on this Web site are provided for information purposes
only and for redistribution as outlined in our guidelines. GMOArticles.com does not accept any responsibility or liability for the
use or misuse of the article content on this site or reliance by any
person on the site's contents.
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