Publisher Guidelines

Updated 7/13/2006

These editorial guidelines are designed to help you understand what we accept and don't accept for inclusion in our article database. Before you submit to our site, we'd appreciate if you'd read this page first. :-)

1. Must be an original article that you or a hired contractor/ghost writer wrote. We will not accept stolen or content copied from another source.

2. Please do not submit Microsoft Word smart quotes in your title. This includes quotes, apostrophe's, double dashes, and 3 dots in a row. Replace smart quotes with standard quotes/apostrophe's/double dashes/or 3 periods in a row.

3. Articles MUST be informative and contain no less than 400 words.

4. We do not accept articles with links included in the body of the article. Don't submit it, we will reject it.

a. 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. No Press Releases or Advertisements: If your article sounds like a press release or an advertisement. We will reject it.

6. 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.

7. 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.

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

9. 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.

10. MUST NOT be a public domain article. We understand that there are many places to purchase public domain articles but we will not accept these at DirectArticles.com. We are looking for unique articles and do not want to publish several of the same article on our site.