Before you submit, look at our style guide and recent articles for insight into structuring and formatting your piece, and make sure your submission:
- Has a thesis and offers a clear argument—not just a list of tips and tricks.
- It is written for an audience of designers, developers, content strategists, information architects, or similar.
- Is supported with convincing arguments, not just opinions. Fact-check, and cite sources where appropriate.
- Has a voice. Be bold, interesting, and human.
- Follow our style guide.
What we publish
We publish articles of anywhere between 600–10,000 words, depending on the subject's complexity. 1,500 words are about average. Articles often run with a custom illustration. Articles may be casual in tone and content—great for less-intensive tutorials and posts—or rigorously structured and edited. All should be well-considered explorations of current and cutting-edge topics in the web industry.
How to submit a guest post?
Email us your submission. We prefer submissions as Google documents so that editors can quickly provide feedback and guidance directly within your draft. You may also send us a plaintext file( word, pdf files), a Markdown file, or a link to an HTML document. (Please do not send a ZIP file of assets unless requested by an editor.)
- Create Content plagiarism-free and use stock-free images.
- Create the file in MS Word, and Google Documents, and send it (recommended).
- Use Headings and subheadings perfectly.
Guidelines
Submissions must meet the Creately content team’s quality standards in order to get published. Editors reserve the right to reject contributions at their discretion and make minor edits to your article.
Successful guest post contributions should be comprehensive, data-driven, interesting, and educational. To increase your chances of getting published on our blog, ensure that your contribution,
- Is a relevant, well-researched post (preferably 1000+ words) with actionable tips.
- Is it 100% original and unpublished? We will not republish anything that’s been published elsewhere.
- Only includes claims that are backed by links to credible research or case studies. Avoid citing our competitors, and using any irrelevant promotional links to websites.
- Includes headings, subheadings, bullet points, and shorter paragraphs which make the article more readable.
- Includes examples and relevant images to illustrate your point. Avoid using stock photos that don’t add any value to the copy. Use Creately to visualize data, information, processes, ideas, and frameworks.
- Once published on our blog you cannot publish it anywhere else, including your own blog.
- You can only have 1 self-serving link. Either a link to a relevant, informative, resource (i.e. a blog post) in the body of the article (do follow link) or to your site or to any social media channel in the author bio (do follow link). You can link to other relevant articles from the Creately blog that may add value to the article. But please refrain from excessive linking. In general, it’s best to keep the link count under 5.
- Outgoing links must be relevant to our blog. For example, linking to dating sites, SEO agencies, Credit-related sites, etc. aren’t allowed.
- Once published on our blog you cannot publish it anywhere else, including your own blog.
- The title shouldn’t be longer than 60 characters.
- Content should be divided into paragraphs followed by subheadings and less than the maximum of 300 words. Try not to overlength the sentences and do not use passive voice too often.
- Create content for users, not for SEO. Avoid keyword stuffing, just focus on providing helpful tips and information for blog readers.
- The image width should be less or compressed. Please send them as a separate attachment.
- Make sure not to violate copyright when using images.
Our site gets 40,000+ visitors per month and is increasing steadily. All high-quality articles are included in our monthly newsletter as well, hence bringing your piece in front of a wider audience who will read and reshare your content.
Payments
Please note that we will not pay for your articles. If you’re a professional writer and think you can create great articles for us, contact us with some previous writing samples.
Submission
You have to provide a small description of yourself, your name, and your website link for credits.