Editorial Guidelines – Insights of Life

Please find below the detailed editorial guidelines to submit your guest post in our website.

The Blog content objective should be to engage the audience in the relevant category segment. The content should focus on giving some positive outcome to the reader, or shall promote spreading positivity and happiness amongst the readers.

The articles are accepted only in the following categories:

1. Health – Physical Health (running, walking, yoga, exercise, diet, healthy food, etc.), mental health, child health
2. Education – child education, online education, higher education, Vocational education
3. Life Learning – family bonding, positive thinking, parenting, happiness.
4. Spiritual topics but not religious

The headline of the blog article should follow the following parameters:

1. The article headline should include the prominent keyword with at least one number.
2. Use of proper H1, H2 & H3 tags in the article.
3. The length of the headline should not be more than 50 Characters.
4. The article headline should have 1 power word.
5. Impact words in the beginning of the headline should be considered.

The article’s tone and voice always play a major role to engage the readers. Hence it is important to keep the following things in mind before submitting your article:

1. Your article should be original and must have never been published before on the Internet.
   1. The voice of the article should be playful and cheeky or honest and straightforward.
   1. It should not be not self-promotional. No jargon or corporate speak.
   1. Keep it interesting and conversational.
   1. Use of limited keyword phrases that can be ranked easily.

It is the key to attract the reader at a glance.

1. Use of proper Headings and Subheadings, appropriate use of bold letters and bullet points.
2. Small paragraphs with 3-4 sentences.
3. Proper use of punctuation, grammar and no wordy sentences in the article.
4. Use table of Contents to define the article structure.
5. Use headers and sub headers to break up your post.
6. Avoid big blocks of text.
7. When writing headlines be specific and indicate a benefit to the reader.
8. The article should have the conclusion or Final Thoughts.
9. End the post with a question or a call to action for comments.

The article length should be of minimum 800 words and should not exceed more than 2000 words.

All the articles should be submitted along with the relevant images.

1. The blog should have the appropriate images in JPEG format only with not more than 80kb of file size.
2. There should be at least 2 images (apart from the featured image) in 800 words article. And can go up to maximum 5 images for 2000 words article.
3. No Stock Photos allowed.
4. The image size should not be more than 800px X 400px.
5. Image should be relevant to the topic and content.

General Guidelines

Email your blog post to insightsoflife.com@gmail.com with “Guest Post for Insights of Life” in the subject line. It may take up to 10 working days before we respond to you. Even if we choose not to publish your blog post, you will get a response, explaining the reason.

If we publish your blog post, Insights of Life has full rights to the content, including but not limited to edit, mix, duplicate, use, or re-use it in whole or in part as it so chooses.

We may edit your post or bounce it back to you for revisions before publishing. We may edit anchor text and links that are not relevant to your post. Sometimes scheduling may change but we will let you know ahead of time.

We ask that your article not be published elsewhere previously, or simultaneously. If you’d like to republish a guest post that ran on the Insights of Life website, please wait at least 8 weeks to do so. Update it to make it current and link to the original post.

We ask that your articles be submitted at least 10 days prior to your scheduled run date. We can also coordinate on an email for scheduling the post.

You can plan to promote your post throughout your social networks or another medium. We believe that you share it more than once on multiple networks over multiple days. The time frame and scheduling are completely up to you.

For any further clarifications please feel free to write to us – contact@insightsoflife.com