Guest Posting Guidelines

I welcome guest posts here at Life Optimizer. They give the readers fresh perspectives beyond what I can provide. I also learn a lot from the guest posts.

Here are two reasons why you may want to write a guest post:

  1. You will help people through your writing
    This is always a good thing. While you already help people through your blog, by writing here you can help even more people since you reach a new audience.
  2. You will get exposure for your work
    There are more than 9000 subscribers here who will see your guest post. Since your guest post includes links to your work (such as your blog), it means that your work will get exposure to thousands of people. This is not to mention potentially thousands others who may come to your post through social media sites or search engines.

You may choose any personal-growth topic for your post. The important thing is that it provides useful value for the readers.

Of course, there are some guidelines for the post. The post must be:

  1. Original
    It can’t be a post that has been posted on your own blog or anywhere else before. In other words, it must be a new post.
  2. At least 600 words long
    This is for the content part, not counting the title and bio.
  3. At most 50 words bio
    You may include links to your work here. Please put the bio at the end of the post. I will write my introduction at the beginning.
  4. In list form
    Lists are practical and scannable. The readers love them. Please see the two sample guest posts below.
  5. No links to unrelated sites
    As I write above, you may link to your work in the bio. Please note, however, that I won’t accept posts that link to sites that are unrelated to personal growth.
  6. No affiliate links

I reserve the right to edit the posts as needed (for example, to fix spelling or grammar errors) and to reject posts that I feel are not appropriate for this web site.

Here are two sample guest posts:

You can send your submission to donald (at) lifeoptimizer.org. Please understand that I need to read the complete post first before I can decide whether or not to publish it.