Guest-Blogger Program
& Legal Guidelines
About The Small Business
Forum Blog
Thank you for your interest in writing for the Web.com Small
Business Forum. We’re here for one reason: to help small
businesses succeed online. With over 3 million customers;
thousands of Small Business Forum community members; and thousands
more social followers across multiple brands (Network
Solutions, Register.com and Solid Cactus among them),
the Small Business Forum is your chance to put yourself front
and center before small business owners, entrepreneurs and
business professionals, everywhere.
We’re interested in articles that provide value to our audience,
which includes a mix of both new and experienced online
marketers with the greatest concentration in small, local
businesses. Articles that perform best for us include those on
lead generation, e-commerce, social media marketing,
email marketing, SEO, SEM, business blogging, branding,
content creation, marketing trends and data, mobile marketing,
apps and emerging technologies.
Other popular topics include more general small business subjects
such as business regulation, business financing, business
productivity, leadership, entrepreneurship and cybersecurity.
Finally, we also enjoy a very strong community of Women Business
Professionals and always welcome content created exclusively
for them.
Guest Blogging
Requirements
- We only accept well-written, high-quality original articles. No
duplicates.
- Posts should be between 500 and 2,000 words long
- Post should be thoroughly copyedited for grammar and spelling.
Web.com reserves the right to make minor edits at our
discretion, including post title
- All quotes, data and third-party content should be properly
attributed. Plagiarism will result in the removal of your
article from the forum along with revocation of your
guest-blogging privileges
- No promotional or commercial articles
- Only high-quality, informative links are acceptable with no
more than (3) total in the body of your article. Any links
deemed overtly promotional will be removed without notice (Note:
A link to your company or website will appear in your Author
Bio at the bottom of every post)
- We prefer articles that reflect the friendly, professional,
conversational voice of the Small Business Forum, but
encourage you to inject some of your own personality
- All posts should include (1) Primary Header Image (600px by
375px) using Creative Commons or other copyright-safe
sources. Please match the image file name to targeted keywords
from your post.
- Additional visual content (photos, illustrations, graphs,
graphics or videos), may also be used throughout the post
(encouraged), with proper attribution. Web.com reserves the right
to substitute or eliminate images at our discretion
How To Submit
To submit articles for publication consideration in the Web.com
Small Business Forum, please register as a guest author for the Small Business Forum,
and fill out your profile. You can attach your article for
submission on the registration form.
If your article conforms to our editorial guidelines and content
strategy, we will reply to let you know your article will be
published within 2 weeks.
Small Business Forum Legal Guidelines
The Small Business Forum is owned and operated by Web.com.
Web.com reserves the right to alter these guidelines from time
to time, as we deem necessary.
This is a public website. As such, you should not post any
information you consider confidential. By posting, you agree
that you are solely responsible for all information you
contribute or link to using this website.
Opinions and comments expressed on this website are the
personal opinions of the original authors, not Web.com or
any of its affiliates. All content from contributors is provided
for informational purposes and not meant to be an
endorsement by Web.com or any of its affiliates.
Content Contributors
By providing content to the site, Contributors agree:
- By contributing blog posts, comments or other content,
contributor agrees to give Web.com a perpetual,
non-exclusive copyright to the content.
- Web.com reserves the right to syndicate all contributed
content to third parties.
- Web.com reserves the right to not publish contributed content
at our sole discretion.
- Contributing authors will be recognized with a 1-2 sentence
bio at the end of each article that may include (1) link
back to the author’s company or website.
- Web.com will properly attribute all content to the original
author.
- Contributing authors are solely responsible for the
originality and accuracy of their submissions.
- Web.com reserves the right to make corrections for spelling
and grammar.
- Web.com reserves the right to edit post headlines for clarity
or search engine optimization (keyword inclusion).
- Web.com reserves the right to make minor edits to body copy
at our discretion.
- Only high-quality, informative links are acceptable, with no
more than (3) total in the body of any article. Web.com
reserves the right to remove any links it deems overly
commercial or promotional in nature.
- Web.com reserves the right to substitute fonts and styles,
exclude images and/or other graphics, and otherwise adjust
posts to ensure they comply with our site styling and standards.
All Users and Members
By participating in the Web.com Small Business Forum, you
acknowledge and agree that you will not post comments,
pictures or other content that:
- Attacks or discriminates against others, including Web.com
employees
- Contains expletives or foul language.
- Has inflammatory religious or political content.
- Is hateful, tortuous, defamatory, slanderous, or libelous;
promotes bigotry, racism, sexism, hatred, or harm against
any group or individual or promotes discrimination based on
race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual
orientation, or age.
- Violates or infringes upon the copyrights, trademarks,
privacy, property, publicity, or other intellectual
property rights of any person or entity.
- Contains language or pictures that contain nudity or are
sexually explicit, lewd, obscene, and/or potentially
offensive to the intended community.
The opinions expressed by users and content authors on this
site are theirs alone, and not those of Web.com
Web.com reserves the right to block or remove postings or
communications at any time, at our sole discretion
Some links on this site may link to third-party sites. Web.com
is not responsible for the content on those sites.
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