Thanks for your interest in writing a guest article for the Outsource School blog. 

We love having outside experts write articles for the Outsource School community and we greatly appreciate you taking the time to read our guidelines. 

With all of our blog articles, we strive to make them as actionable and readable as possible.

Not to mention that we work hard to optimize each article for search engines so that traffic and readers to the articles increase over time. 

Please read through the guidelines and submission requirements below. 

Article Guidelines

Below are a set of guidelines that we’ve found to be effective in achieving these results:

• 1,500+ words per article
• 1 specific SEO keyword chosen for each article
• Conversational writing style
• No large paragraphs…please cut up any longer paragraphs into more readable pieces
• Use headings to signify different parts of the article
• At most 2 external links pointing to other sites
• Add at least two images within the article with links to their sources
• Proper references for any research noted in the article
• Must be original content and only published on the Outsource School blog
• No AI content allowed. Articles must be human written
• How to, List articles, Guides, or opinion pieces

Our policy is to receive the payment before we publish your content. Your guest article or link insertion will be scheduled to publish in 3-5 business days after we receive the payment.

We ask that you stick to these guidelines in writing your guest article. Upon submission, we will review your article for these key aspects and will ask you to make edits if anything is missing. 

Submission Requirements

Once you’ve finished your article, please take note of the following requirements for submission.  

• Acceptable formats: Google Docs (preferred) and Word Document.
• Byline and headshot: In your submission, include a 2-3 sentence byline and a high resolution headshot that we can use on the guest article.