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You want to guest post for free, but we want to pay you for it instead.
It’s nothing personal. It’s just that we think you should get paid for your work. Don’t you?

So, if you want to submit a guest post, feel free to use the Contact Us form and share your ideas with us. Your chances of having your guest post accepted aren’t very good, however. (They are better than zero, but still not very good.) Here’s why.

Most people who find this page won’t read it at all and will slap in a formulaic request to post. Strike one. Of the people who do take the time to discover what our site is all about, most of them will try to convince us of how much value they can bring to our blog and how they can write about so many things and do it so well. Strike two. Most of those folks will have some thinly veiled (or completely obtuse) marketing objective, and will demonstrate in the course of their request that they would not be sensitive to the needs of the host blog (us), and actually can’t write very well anyway. Strike three.

Now, do you really want to get run through that ringer? Assuming you truly can write well, then you absolutely should write for us, and get paid while you’re at it.

Writing for Us Can Be a Challenge
We’ve got some standards, people. Some very serious standards. While we don’t exactly take ourselves seriously, our clients and the host blogs where we publish have every reason to expect the best work from us. So before you proceed any further, take a gander at our Article Guidelines there in the right margin. Go ahead, read through it. We’ll wait…

What did you think? Can you write to our standards? Do you understand the world of blogging? If you think so, then here’s what you need to know about getting paid to write on this, the Content BLVD of dreams.

We provide outsourced guest blogging services for our clients.
They need to have interesting pieces written and accepted by authoritative blogs to help them build authority and credibility for their websites. We help them do that by sourcing the content (from skilled writers like you), then pitching the content to relevant blogs.

The topics can vary widely. The good news is that you get to choose topics that best suit you and the sort of writing you do best. The bad news? Well, that depends on how you look at it…

Our program pays writers “on spec.”
That means we pay for each article once it’s accepted by a blog. The better the blog placement, the more we get paid by our clients (and therefore, the more we can pay our writers). Right now, our primary measure of a blog’s quality or “authority,” is Google PageRank. Better PageRank (PR) yields better links, which is why clients pay us more for them.

Because it’s in our interest to post articles on the highest authority blogs each client needs, it’s in our writers’ interest to write the best content they can.
Blogs only accept pieces they like– they don’t pay us, and we don’t pay them. All of the money comes from our clients, to compensate us and our writers. This is not a blog network where articles are published automatically. The work has to be good enough to earn a spot– when it is, our writers are paid well for it.

If you aren’t comfortable with that, don’t apply. We don’t pay for articles that don’t meet the needs of our publishers. On the other hand, if you’re tired of getting bottom-dollar rates for work that you know is worth more, this might be the place for you.

Applying to write for us is easy.
Well, the application is easy. Getting accepted is another story. As you might imagine, we’re inundated with applicants looking for freelance writing jobs, and we can’t take them all. We’re careful to accept writers who know what it means to deliver value for writers.

To apply, click here to get started. Or visit our page, How to Get Paid to Write to learn more.