Guest Post Guidelines

Here at 40Tech, we occasionally receive inquires about guest posting.  We do accept, and in fact encourage, guest posts that are on topic (tech!) and satisfy a few other basic criteria and guidelines:

• Guest posts can’t be used to advertise a particular product.
• We don’t have a set minimum or maximum length for a post, but the posts here at 40Tech have generally been over 350 words, with some exceptions.  One of the longest posts was just over 3000 words.
• Your post must be original, and not have appeared elsewhere.
• You must agree that you won’t post your content elsewhere, or submit it elsewhere.
• All of our posts need an image relevant to your topic, that is 576 X 200 pixels.  You can see an example of how the image will be used by looking at the most recent post on the home page of 40Tech.com. Once your post is no longer the most recent post on the site, it will use an image that is 200 x 200 pixels, so you can either submit a 200 x 200 pixel image, or the site will default to using the center of your 576 x 200 pixel image.
• We ask that you prepare a blurb about yourself to serve as a byline that appears at the end of your post.  The byline should be approximately 45 words in length, and can contain two links. The links must not be deceptive (i.e. they must link to what you say they link to).
• We’re hoping to get you exposure, not provide you with “SEO juice.” Links in the article and in your bio shouldn’t include SEO anchor text. An example of SEO-anchor text in your bio that we can’t run is “John Doe of Acme Webwizards, San Francisco Web Designers.” Something that would be OK in your bio: “John Doe of Acme Webwizards, San Francisco Web Designers”
• If you have a post that you want to submit, contact us via the contact form, and let us know what your post idea is.  Make sure you use a valid email address so that we can get back to you.
• We typically respond within 48 hours, letting you know whether we’d like to see your post.  After we review the post, we’ll let you know whether we can use it or not.  If we can’t, you obviously are free to use it elsewhere.
• If you submit a post, you’re giving us permission to edit it. This includes editing it for grammar, form, content, and to comply with these guest post guidelines (including the “no SEO anchor text” guideline in the post and the bio, as explained above).

So, to summarize the important points: