Contributing Authors Guidelines and Terms of Service

Do you have a passion for writing and Raw Living Foods? Are you an expert in,  or have knowledge and life experience in the The RAW and Living Foods Lifestyle? Would you would like to share your knowledge, experience, and passion with our readers? If so, we would love to have you as a contributor! Global Wellness Publishers is looking for quality content for our websites. The focus of this site is on promoting the  RAW & Living Foods Lifestyle. And how Raw & Living Foods can help people to THRIVE and have a more vibrant life! We  want to provide for our reader the best information, products, tools,  technologies and serves available to enable them to take control of the natural health and well-being!

What’s in it for you:
So what’s in it for you? Well there is no pay, sorry! But there is plenty of Free promotion for you and or your business. Our rankings and readership are growing fast and will only continue to do so with good quality content. We will promote your articles on Facebook, Twitter, and FriendFeed. And other social networking site will be added as we see their usefulness.

How to get started:
You can get start now, by submitting an article and your Profile/Bio by email to GlobalWellnessPublishers@gmail.com with Attention Thriving On Raw Food editor in the subject line.
Your Profile/bio should include the following:
your name
Your  website if any (must be sites that you own NOT affiliate links. Facebook, Twitter, Friendfeed, Squidoo, and other such sites are OK.) And a sort bio of yourself and or your business.

Editorial Guidelines: (CONTENT QUALIFICATIONS)

To Be Qualified For Our Site, your Article:

MUST BE AN ORIGINAL ARTICLE THAT YOU WROTE. If you work for an author as an employee or contractor and are submitting the article, please submit the article as if it was from the original author including his or her email address and name.

MUST NOT BE AN ARTICLE YOU RIPPED-OFF FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN OR BOUGHT (PLR). If you did hire a ghost writer to write your articles, you MUST have an EXCLUSIVE LICENSE that *only* allows your name to be associated with the articles produced for you. Please do not waste your time or ours by submitting (PLR) articles that have non-exclusive licenses as we reject those articles.

Why No non-exclusive licenses PLR?
#1) It makes you look like a fraud because you’re putting your name on someone else’s works that already may have hundreds or thousands of other authors who already put their name on the exact same works
#2) we do not want more than one copy of any article our sites.

MUST BE informative and share your unique expertise or experience. Include tips, strategies, techniques, case-studies, analysis, opinions and commentary in your articles. We do not accept articles that contain more than 5 lines of quoted or sourced material.

Our categories are as follows:

MUST NOT be a press release, advertisement, sales letter, promotional copy, or blatant and excessive self-promotion or hype.

MUST HAVE proper English, spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitalization and sentence structure. OK, OK, we know there are variation in what is considered “proper English,” we ask that you at least be consistent within your article. Your article must also be proofed and double checked for accuracy. If English is your second language, Please  have it proofed by someone who has English as their native tongue before submitting your articles to us.

SIMPLE PUNCTUATION RULES: One or two spaces after each period, colon, or semi-colon; Periods should be inside of quotes; When doing “…” — you should use only 3 dots; When using dashes, use two in a row, ex: “–”; There is never a space BEFORE a period or BEFORE a comma.

MUST NOT contain: Photo’s of males or females in swim wear (Photos must add value to the article),
pornography/adult material, hate or violence-oriented, suggest racial intolerance, advocate against any individual or group, have insulting, obscene, degrading tone, or contain profanity.

MUST NOT contain information promoting  alcohol/tobacco-related products or prescription drugs.

MUST CONTAIN information that promotes the The Raw and Living Foods Lifestyle, for example see the following: Nutritional benefits of Raw Foods, Natural Health/Healing and raw Foods, Raw Foods and it’s benefit on Wellness.

MUST NOT contain any content that is a violation of any law, be considered defamatory, libelous, or infringes on the legal rights of others.

MUST NOT be a submission of the exact same article as one that you already submitted. Please do not  submit the same article multiple times with only a few words changed in the body — we WILL reject these and ban authors who engage in this practice.

MUST NOT include a reply to a personal email, letter or other correspondence.

MUST NOT contain excessive and/or bolded keywords/ phrases. Bolding is limited to headings and subheadings.

Editorial Guidelines: (FORMAT)

ARTICLE TITLE:

Your Title MUST Be In Upper and Lower Case Letters With The First Letter of Each Major Word Capitalized.
We will not accept your TITLE in all CAPS.
It is not required that you capitalize common words such as “a” – “the” – “to” – “for” etc, we accept these either way.
We do not accept QUOTES around your entire TITLE.
Do NOT end your TITLE with a period.
Please do not submit Microsoft Word smart quotes in your TITLE. This includes quotes, apostrophes, double dashes, and 3 dots in a row. Replace smart quotes with standard quotes/apostrophes/double dashes/or 3 periods in a row.
Refrain from excessive repetitive punctuation in your TITLE. One exclamation “!” or question mark “?” is enough to make a point.
We do not allow HTML tags of any kind in your TITLE.
Your TITLE must begin with the first word flush to the LEFT border.
We do not allow your AUTHOR NAME or any WEBSITE URL to be in your TITLE.
Your TITLE must not be keyword stuffed (too many redundant keywords used over and over again), but rather should read as a natural language TITLE that any human could easily appreciate. Do not over-optimize your TITLE please.
We do not allow Prescription Drug names in the title of your article.
We do not accept One Word as the article TITLE, a MINIMUM of two unique words is required.
We do not accept articles that use slang terms or profanity in the TITLE.
We do not accept articles that do not deliver on the article title. You must deliver in the article body on the promises made in the article title.

TITLE KEYWORD RICHNESS: Your title should be “Keyword Rich.” The first 3-4 words of your TITLE determines the success of the article in terms of how much traffic your article will generate…so choose the first 3-4 words wisely.

Example of a Bad Keyword TITLE:

Top 10 Ways to Use The Wellness Encyclopedia

Example of a Good Keyword TITLE:

The Wellness Encyclopedia ‘s – Top 10 Ways of Use

Recommended Reading: Article Marketing & Copywriting Secret: How To Make Your Article TITLE Sell

AUTHOR NAME:

YOUR FULL AUTHOR NAME: You must include your first and last name as the author of the article.
Your AUTHOR NAME must have a First name and a Last name.
We do allow “First name – Last initial” or “First initial – Last Name.”
Your First and Last name must begin with a Capital Letter.
We do not allow company names to be your AUTHOR NAME.
We do not allow email addresses or URLs to be your AUTHOR NAME.
We do not allow adjectives or nouns or descriptors to be a part of your AUTHOR NAME.
You may NOT include your title after your AUTHOR NAME unless you hold a doctorate-level degree (Dr., MD, DDS, PhD, etc.)
We do not allow religious titles before or after your name.
We do not allow numbers to be included in your Author Name.

ARTICLE BODY:

Must be a minimum of 250 words and no more than 5,000 words. For us, an ideal article size is 400-750 words.
Please do not repeat your TITLE and AUTHOR NAME at the top of the ARTICLE BODY.
Copyrights must be at the bottom of your article. If you put it at the top of your article, we will move it to the bottom of the article body.
If you include a REPRINT RIGHTS statement in your article, it must be at the BOTTOM of your article. If you put it at the top, we will move it to the bottom.
Keep in mind our Publisher Terms of Service when you write your reprint rights statement as we will not accept articles that have REPRINT RIGHTS statements that conflict with our posted Author Terms of Service.
If you sell hard in the ARTICLE BODY by including your URL or product pitch or blatant self-promotion, we will toss your article without notice. The RESOURCE SPACE is where you get to pitch yourself or your website address.
Your article body MUST deliver on what is promised in the title. We do not accept teaser links or phrases that require a reader to click away from the article or reference another source in order to receive the full benefit of what has been promised.
Sorry at this time NO HTML TAGS ARE ALLOWED in the ARTICLE BODY:

Your article MUST be single spaced, MUST use appropriate paragraph breaks, and MUST use correct formatting for bulleted or numbered lists. We will not accept articles that are not single spaced, that do not use paragraphs to appropriately break up the body text, or that provide bulleted or numbered lists that are not formatted correctly.

WEBSITE LINKS/URLS There is a total limit of (4) active or inactive links allowed in the article, which consists of the BODY, the REFERENCES SPACE and the RESOURCE SPACE . (REFERENCE & RESOURCE SPACE are always at the bottom of article.

Maximum of (2) “Self-Serving” active or inactive links/URLs to a website that you own, control, or have an interest in.
Maximum of (2) active or inactive non-self serving links/URLs to a website that you do not own, control, or have an interest in which adds value to the article.
Confine your self-serving links to your RESOURCE SPACE.
We do not accept articles with active or inactive links in the first 1-3 paragraphs. Please put your active links in the resource SPACE below the article body. The article BODY is your “GIVE” and the RESOURCE SPACE is your “TAKE.”
We do not accept links that use HTML to add style attributes to the link, URL, or text link description.
We do not accept links formatted with Smart Quotes by using MS WORD.
We will auto format valid URLs included in your RESOURCE SPACE.

Example of an invalid URL:

Your-Company-Name.com
www.your-company-name.com

Example of a valid URL:

http://Your-Company-Name.com/

We will NOT auto-format URLs that are included in the BODY of your article.
Your links MAY NOT contain a file to be downloaded of any type.
We do not knowingly allow any URLs in any of our articles that are banned by Google or if your website engages in questionable SEO practices — we may reject your articles.
We do not accept articles that have the same ACTIVE link more than once. Do not submit duplicate URLs.
We do not allow articles which have strategic keyword anchor text links in the body to your domain that do not add informational value to the article. Any use of anchored text links to websites that you own should add value to the article topic rather than stand out as an obvious abuse of anchored text link. The goal with this policy is to be a good net citizen by only allowing articles that add value with the anchored text links rather than for pure SEO reasons. Please limit your anchor text link length to 3 words in an article that is less than 400 words and 5 words in anchor text if your article is more than 400 words.
Note: Common words are excluded from this word count. Those include: to, is, in, on, it, and, at, by, a, an, for, of
Example: Within your article, you link the word “bird dog” to an article that you wrote about bird dogging. This is a good example of an anchored text link vs. linking the same text to your home page as it doesn’t really add value.
If you put both of the active self serving links that we allow in the body of your article, we will reject it.
We will not accept articles with links (in the Article Body or Resource Space) to adult-oriented websites, including but not limited to websites that include pornography, adult-oriented sexual content.
We do not allow links to websites that are under construction. Websites must be active and have content in order for you to link to them from your article. We will reject your article if it contains a link of this nature.

EMAIL ‘MAILTO:’ LINKS: We highly recommend including a link to your website but do not advise including a mailto: or email link to your personal or work email account. This is for your benefit because spammers will abuse it. We think you’ll find it’s better to include a valid website URL and let potential customers find your email address on your website.

KEYWORDS: Adding the top keywords related to your article helps us to bring more traffic to your article.

Please make sure you put a comma between each KEYWORD.
Ideally, your keywords should be optimized based on the most commonly searched keywords as published by Google.com for your particular niche. It helps to use a good keyword research tool to help you determine which ones are best to use. We use and recommend Market Samurai…You can get a Free copy here using this link: (http://www.marketsamurai.com/c/GlobalWellnessPublishers)
We recommend you should have between of 4-5 keywords We do not accept keywords that are completely unrelated to the content of your article.

SUMMARY: The purpose of the ARTICLE SUMMARY is to give an abstract or summary of the benefits that your article delivers.

Every article must have a 2-5 sentence article summary and not exceed 200 words. If you don’t know what to put in your summary, just use the first paragraph of your article.
We do not allow HTML tags of any kind in your ARTICLE SUMMARY.
We do not allow blatant self-promotion in your ARTICLE SUMMARY.
We do not allow your AUTHOR NAME to be in your ARTICLE SUMMARY.
We do not allow any website URL or Email Address to be in your ARTICLE SUMMARY

CATEGORY:

ARTICLE CATEGORY or SUB-CATEGORY: Please choose the best category or sub category based on the theme of your article and not the theme of your business. Here are some general hints on how to select the best category for categories that are often confused.

Articles on Nutrition should not go in the Weight Loss sub-category, but rather should be in the Nutrition sub-category. Supplement articles should not go in the Nutrition category but rather should be in the Supplements sub-category.
The Coaching sub-category of Self-Improvement is designed for articles about “how to be a coach” rather than articles about coaching a person on a particular topic.
Click here to view our Category Guidelines To Help You Select The Perfect Category For Your Article Submissions

Global Wellness Publishers Editorial Guidelines: (AFFILIATE PROGRAMS):Sorry No Affiliate programs at this time!

Affiliate links will NOT be allowed at this time

…but may be allowed in the future. We will let you know if and when we make this change.

Any article with an affiliate link will cause the article to be rejected.

Author Terms of Service
Author Terms of Service
When submitting article to our directory you agree that:
1. You are either the original author of the article (and have retained your rights to it), or you have acquired the exclusive world-wide rights to use the article as you see fit.
2. We make no guarantee that we will publish any article submitted to us. Furthermore, we reserve the right to remove any article at any time without notice.
3. If we feel your article is better suited to a different category, we will move it without telling you.
4. You are granting us full permission to publish your article under the Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License which, among other rights, permits us to:
* Publish your article on Global Wellness Publishers web sites.
* Publish your article in RSS format for other websites to syndicate.
* Publish your article in our real time, daily, or weekly newsletters.
And allows us to pass on your article to other people for them to reprint it under the same license.
5. You will not receive any monetary compensation for articles published by us. We will, however, give you full credit for the article, and will include a link to your site.
6. You will not include any affiliate links in the body of your article. If you wish to promote an affiliate product, please do so by using a redirect or other page on your own domain.
7. Global Wellness Publisher may at any time translate your article into various languages for our sister sites. We will still include your resource space.
8. We reserve the right to change these terms of service at any time. We will do our best to notify you of any changes (either by posting them on the site, or by email) but cannot be held liable for any failure to do so.
9. We reserve the right to include advertising on pages with your articles.

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