Successful blog articles are comprehensive, data-driven, and interesting posts that teach, inspire and connect our various audiences to content and resources aimed at helping youth and young adults overcome anxiety, depression and other mental health and emotional issues.
How to Submit:
- Let us know you’re interested. Shoot us a quick email at stibebu [at] anxietyinteens [dot] org notifying us that you have completed the Anxiety In Teens Write For Us form. Please be detailed but concise so we can judge whether the topics will align with our site.
- We will approve the idea. If the blog post ideas are not in line with our objectives but you have the right writing style, we will help brainstorm additional ideas.
- You write the post. Follow our editorial guidelines outlined below. Submit your post as a Word document in top-notch, ready-to-publish fashion. There should be absolutely no spelling errors, grammar errors or typos. Read it out loud to yourself and have a friend check it over as well. We will go over it once (1 time) and may send it back to you for one (1) round of corrections.
- We edit…if needed. We prefer not to edit your post—please make sure to be aware of the guidelines. If needed, we will make one round of edits and send back to you with commentary. If there are too many edits to be made, we will kindly suggest posting the post elsewhere. If your article meets editorial standards and aligns with our content strategy, we will respond to let you know your article will be published.
- You make the edits. This is your final round of edits. Again, if we still do not feel the post is up to par with our other posts, you are free to post it elsewhere.
- You are an official Anxiety In Teens Contributor or Guest Blogger! Because you have properly written, edited and formatted a meaningful post on the topics of youth mental wellness and/or related content, we will put your post on our site.
Guest Blogging and Volunteer Contributor Requirements for Anxiety In Teens:
- Well-written and high-quality original article (we all know how Google hates duplicate content)
- Articles that reflects the writing style/tone of the Anxiety In Teens site.
- No official length requirements: Posts should be as long as they need to be to be high quality and comprehensive. (Too vague? Check out some of our existing posts for some guidance, typically guest posts and contributors are between 600-2000 words, depending on the format of the post).
- We will attribute your content to your name, as well as photos you provide for posts (or, under certain circumstances and to the discretion of both Editor and guest blogger, we will accept posts that may be posted anonymously). After five guest posts, we will include a short author bio including a maximum of 1 anchor text link to your own website. Remember, Google frowns upon guest blogging as a link building technique.
- Proper attribution of data, quotations, and other third-party content referenced in the article. Thanks to Hubspot for these recommendations, check out this link from them on how to properly attribute copyright information.
- Post submitted in HTML or in a Word document with any image files (including attribution) attached separately
Not-So-Fine Print:
- Anxiety In Teens does not pay for guest posts nor regular volunteer contributors but this may change in the future.
- Submissions must meet the Anxiety In Teens team’s quality standards in order to get published.
- Personal stories on Anxiety In Teens are what makes this site so special. We do encourage you to share important details of your journey so other teens, young adults and parents can relate. However, please avoid being self-promotional in the body of your article, there is a big difference!
- The Anxiety In Teens team reserves the right to edit and adapt your guest blog content as we see fit, and update it in the future for accuracy and comprehensiveness.
- Anxiety In Teens reserves the right to include calls-to-action to Anxiety In Teens or other AiT-team approved content, including but not limited to email newsletters, ebooks, and other downloadable content.
- If we decide to use your post on Anxiety In Teens, know that you will be credited with the writing of the post but also give Anxiety In Teens the copyright ownership of the post to avoid duplicate content issue. This means you’ll not be able to publish the post anywhere else in future.
- We cannot allow you to republish your guest post to your own blog afterward (it’s that whole duplicate content thing again). Unfortunately, we can’t let you republish in full any of our text-based content (blog articles, PDFs, PPTs, DOCs) on the web. Why? Well, duplicate content is just bad for SEO, and Google will hate us for it.
- Feel free to share links to any of our content by email and social media. We’ll love you for it!
- We cannot fulfill requests for original files (e.g. PDFs, PPTs, DOCs or original video files).
- You cannot make money off of our content. We gave it to you for free, so you need to keep it free by passing it along.
- You cannot claim our content as your original ideas (i.e. using our content and publishing it on a channel as your own). We love that you want to share it, but please just share the original link instead. Thank you!