Contributor Guidelines

Help readers learn, grow, and make informed choices. These guidelines explain what we look for when reviewing profiles and submissions.

Guidance version:

Useful contributions are welcome

Share practical self-improvement or professional knowledge that helps readers, even if they never buy from you.

Individuals and organizations are welcome. Coaching, business, personal development, lived experience, and spiritual perspectives can all be useful when relevant to the selected topic.

We do not accept submissions whose main purpose is selling backlinks, paid guest-post placements, or artificial engagement, or misleading readers. Promotional material must offer substantive reader value; disclosure alone does not make it acceptable.

Profiles and professional experience

Describe who you are, your relevant experience, and how your work helps people; keep your identity and business relationships clear.

Your biography can describe your services, teaching, publications, and practical or lived experience. Formal academic credentials are not required for every topic.

For example, explain the audience you coach and the skills you teach. Do not use the biography to sell backlink packages, guest-post placements, or fake engagement.

Certifications

List certifications you actually hold; leave this field blank if you have none.

Include the certification name and issuing organization where possible. Describe work history, personal experience, and services in your biography instead of presenting them as certifications.

Articles with reader value

Offer useful, topic-relevant guidance, make business relationships clear, and support consequential factual claims.

A useful article should stand on its own without requiring a purchase. Relevant links to your own business are allowed when they help the reader; identify your relationship to a business you discuss or promote, including ownership, employment, representation, or paid promotion.

For example, a coach can explain a practical exercise and link to their coaching services while making that relationship clear. A thin article built around unrelated commercial links or selling placements is not a fit.

Support consequential factual claims with reliable sources that actually support the wording. A disclaimer or a personal-experience label does not make an unsafe or unsupported claim acceptable. See the claims section of the full guidelines for detail.

Claims, sources, and original work

Support consequential factual claims and credit other people's work accurately.

Health, financial, legal, and other consequential factual claims need reliable support appropriate to the claim. Cite a source that supports the specific wording, or remove the unsupported claim. Disclaimers and anecdotes are not substitutes for evidence.

General educational advice, clearly expressed opinions, spiritual perspectives, and accounts of lived experience do not all need academic citations. They must not be used to disguise dangerous or materially misleading factual claims.

Submit work you have the right to use. Attribute quotations and borrowed material; attribution alone does not establish permission to reproduce someone else's work.

Review and resubmission

Before submitting, check the topic, summary, links, and any changes requested by the review team.

After contributor access is approved, save a profile draft to create and submit articles. Profiles and articles are reviewed separately: neither needs to be published before the other can be approved.

Address the specific requested corrections, then resubmit for review. Saving a draft alone does not resubmit it. If a request is unclear or a control is unavailable, ask the review team for clarification.

Optional suggestions are not publication requirements. Submissions remain subject to review; acceptance, traffic, and leads are not guaranteed. Official Guide applications have a separate review process.