Editorial Guidelines for Submitting Articles to PIAA.

These editorial guidelines have been created to help article submitters write articles that have the best chance of being accepted for inclusion in our article database. We appreciate you reading this page first.

YOUR ARTICLE MUST BE ORIGINAL AND ONE THAT YOU WROTE. If you work for an author as an employee or contractor and are submitting the article, please submit the article as if it was from the original author including his or her email address and name.

IT MUST NOT BE AN ARTICLE YOU HAVE SEIZED FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN OR BOUGHT. If you did hire a ghost writer to write your articles, you MUST have an EXCLUSIVE LICENSE that *only* allows your name to be associated with the articles produced for you. Do not waste your time or ours by buying article packs that have non-exclusive licenses as we reject those articles. Why do we do this? 

1) It makes you look like a fraud because you're putting your name on someone else's works that already may have hundreds or thousands of other authors who already put their name on the exact same works and 

2) We do not want more than one copy of any article in our directory.

THE ARTICLE MUST NOT CONTAIN AFFILIATE LINKS.

MUST BE informative and share your unique expertise. Include tips, strategies, techniques, case-studies, analysis, opinions and commentary in your articles.

MUST NOT be a press release, advertisement, sales letter, promotional copy, or blatant and excessive self-promotion or hype.

MUST HAVE proper English, spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitalization and sentence structure. While we know there is a variation in what is considered "proper English," we ask that you at least be consistent within your article. Your article must also be proofed and double checked for accuracy. If English is your second language -- we strongly suggest that you have it proofed by someone who has English as their native tongue before submitting your articles to us.

MUST NOT contain pornography/adult material, hate or violence-oriented, suggest racial intolerance, advocate against any individual, have insulting-obscene-degrading tone, or contain excess profanity.

MUST NOT contain information on: hacking/cracking content, bomb creation, support for terrorism/ radicalism/ religious fanaticism, illicit drugs or drug paraphernalia, weapon/ firearms/ ammunition/ balisongs/ butterfly knives or brass knuckles, or the promotion of hard alcohol/tobacco-related products or prescription drugs.

MUST NOT contain any content that is a violation of any law, be considered defamatory, libellous, or infringes on the legal rights of others.

MUST NOT 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.

ARTICLE BODY: Must be a minimum of 250 words and no more than 2,000 words. An ideal article size is 250-700 words.

i. Please do not repeat your TITLE and AUTHOR NAME at the top of the ARTICLE BODY. We will remove it. 

ii. Copyrights must be at the bottom of your article. If you put it at the top of your article, we will move it to the bottom of the article body. 

iii. If you include a REPRINT RIGHTS statement in your article, it must be at the BOTTOM of your article. If you put it at the top, we will move it to the bottom. 

If you sell hard in the first paragraph of your ARTICLE BODY by including your URL or product pitch or blatant self-promotion, we will toss your article without notice. The RESOURCE BOX is where you get to pitch yourself or your website address.

The following HTML TAGS ARE ALLOWED in the ARTICLE BODY:

* <b>BOLD</b>
* <i>ITALICS</i>
* <u>UNDERLINE</u>
* <br> is used to force a hard line return. Use this HTML tag to prevent our system from trying to wrap your short sentences together into one paragraph.
* <pre> and </pre> To make a text table look right.

WEBSITE ACTIVE LINKS / YOUR URL: We allow a maximum of 3 ACTIVE URLs in your RESOURCE BOX only.

1. Double check your links before submitting to be sure they work. Your article may be rejected if your website links do not work.
2. You can use HTML code to make your link active.
3. Microsoft Word smart quotes are never valid HTML code.
4. We *DO* auto format valid URLs that are in your RESOURCE BOX.

Example of an invalid URL:

Your-Company-Name.com
www.your-company-name.com

Example of a valid URL:

http://Your-Company-Name.com/

5. Absolutely do not include break tags (<br>) or font attributes in your HREF statements.
6. Your links may NOT contain a file to be downloaded of any type.
7. We do not accept articles that have the same ACTIVE link more than once. Do not submit duplicate identical URLs.
8. We do not knowingly allow any URLs in any of our articles that are banned by Google or if your website engages in questionable SEO practices -- we may reject your articles.
9. We do not auto format URL's that are in the BODY of your article.