Content Is King At Article Content King Article-Content-King Submission Guidelines. We DO NOT accept articles that ask the reader to visit another web page to read the entire article. General Articles and all associated fields should be in good English. Pay careful attention to spelling, punctuation, capitalisation and sentence structure. If you are not fluent in English or are unsure of English language grammar, please consider having your articles proof-read by somebody with a better command of English than yourself. Your Article MUST: Be an original article that you wrote yourself. It must not be an article that you found in the public domain, or acquired with Private Label Rights (PLR) unless it has been edited and modified significantly. You may publish articles written by other people only if you have the exclusive licence and are the only person who may use the articles. Be informative and share your unique expertise. Include tips, strategies, techniques, case-studies, analysis, opinions and commentary in your articles. Your Article MUST NOT: contain: pornography/adult material, hate or violence-oriented, suggest racial or religious intolerance, advocate against any individual or group, have insulting, obscene, degrading tone, or contain profanity. contain information on: Hacking/cracking content, bomb creation, support for terrorism/ radicalism/ religious fanaticism, illicit drug creation or use, use or advocacy of any kind of weapons or poisons, or any other illegal activity. contain any content that is a violation of any law, be considered defamatory, libelous, or infringes on the legal rights of others. be a submission of the exact same article as one that you already submitted. Some authors have submitted the same article multiple times with only a few words changed in the body -- we reject these and ban authors who engage in this practice. include a reply to a personal email, letter or other correspondence. contain excessive and/or bolded keywords/ phrases. Bolding is limited to headings and subheadings. include any encoded or otherwise cryptic messages intended for specific individuals. Title Article Titles must be in "Title Case". This means the following rules apply: Each word must begin with a capital (upper-case) letter, with the rest of the word in lower-case. Exceptions to this rule include: Short words such as "in", "on", "a". Recognised acronyms and abbreviations, such as "NASA". The title of your article should be meaningful and give some indication of the content of the article. If your title doesn't indicate the content of your article, people are less likely to read it. Article Titles should not be enclosed in quotation marks or end with a period (full-stop). Article Titles may not contain any HTML or other formatting codes. Author Name Author Name should be in "Title Case". Each word begins with an upper-case letter, with the rest of the word in lower-case. ALL CAPS is not accepted. Author Name should include First Name and Surname (Family Name). Author Name should not contain any punctuation or symbols. Author Name may not contain any HTML or other formatting codes. Article Snippet The Article Snippet should contain an introduction to, or a précis of your article content. This is the first of your content that a reader sees when searching Article Content King. Write it so that it draws the reader in, so they will continue to read the entire article Your snippet should not exceed 200 words. If you don't know what to put in your snippet, simply use the first paragraph of your article. The Article Snippet must NOT contain: HTML tags of any kind any self-promotion your AUTHOR NAME any website URL or Email Address Article Body Your Article Body MUST: be a minimum of 250 words and no more than 5,000 words. deliver what is promised in the title. Links that require a reader to click away from the article or to reference another source in order to receive the full benefit of what has been promised are not permitted. Be in plain text, except for permitted HTML tags as listed below. Text should not be copied directly from a word processor such as Microsoft Word. <a> to link to other websites if appropriate. All promotional links must be in the resource box and not the article body. <b> Bold <strong> Strong <i> Italics <em> Emphasis <u> Underline <pre> To format tabulated information etc. <blockquote> To insert a quotation <xmp> To display HTML code instead of having it interpreted as HTML. <ol>, <ul> and <li> To create lists and bullet-points. No other HTML tags are permitted. (The cleaner your article code, the more likely it is to be listed in the search engines and republished on other site. Publishers do not like having to clean up the HTML code of your article to have it display correctly on their site). All HTML tags must be closed with the appropriate closing tag. If you don't understand how to use HTML tags correctly, don't use them. Your Article Body MUST NOT: repeat the Title and Author Name. All Article Resource Information including copyright statements go in the resource box; not the article body. If you publish a copyright statement in your articles, it must not conflict with our own terms of service. contain more than 3 URL links. This can be either; using up to 3 unique URL's shown as links one time each, or, one unique URL shown up to 3 times. However, we prefer links to appear in the Resource Box. Links in the Article Body should not appear within the first 3 paragraphs. Articles are less desirable to other publishers with links in body, some will not use them at all if they have body links. Resource Box The Resource Box is your opportunity to publicise yourself and your website(s). There should not be more than 3 links in the Resource Box, and they should be relevant to your article. Keywords Adding popular keywords related to your article helps bring more traffic to your article. In general, most keywords should also appear in your article, but additional, relevant keywords are permitted. Keywords and key phrases should be separated by commas. Plan ahead : use online keyword research tools to find the best keywords related to your article. You should aim for a minimum of 1 keyword and no more than 5. Keywords that are in no way related to the content of your article are not acceptable.