Guest Post Guidelines
Hi there! We’re currently accepting guest post articles for these topics:
- Guitar-related topics
- Building an online brand presence for music creatives
- Selling products and services online to earn extra income
- Music industry news
- Advice for songwriters
- Music Production
Submission Guidelines
- Quality: We have high standards for the quality of writing we publish on YourGuitarBrain. Please reach out to us only if your writing meets these standards and aligns with the tone of our current content.
- Audience: Guitar players, music producers, music students, songwriters, musicians and music lovers.
- Length: 1,500 – 3,000 words
- Native-English Speakers: Writers must be native English speakers to ensure the quality of writing. If you are a non-native English speaker but feel your grammar, etc., is strong, please send us an example of your writing to consider.
- 100% AI content not allowed: We can quickly sniff out AI from unique human-written content. Your article will also be checked in an AI content detector, so please keep it authentic.
- Images: All final submissions must include a header image at 2912 x 1632 px (see our blog posts) and a minimum of 2 relevant in-post images, post subject depending. Only use good quality images you have the rights to.
- Topics which are allowed: Guitar-related information and review posts, building an online brand presence for music creatives, music industry news, songwriting, music production, and music-related topics.
- Pitch-free: Your post will be pitch-free, so no writing to sell affiliate products or services.
- Links we don’t allow: Links related to gambling, adult content, drugs, or violence are prohibited.
Guest Post Best Practices
To make sure your article is a good fit for our audience at YourGuitarBrain, here are a few more important things to do before you pitch your article ideas:
- Read some of the articles on the YourGuitarBrain blog. This is the best way to learn the types of content we publish and get a feel for the blog’s tone.
- Check YourGuitarBrain for our formatting style. Use Appropriate H1, etc. sizes. We’re more likely to accept a well-written post with formatting in line with what we use as it means our editorial team has less work to do, and we can publish your post quicker.
- Follow best SEO practices. Think of good keyword distribution, alt tags on images and a killer title that’ll get people scrambling to click and read.
- Check to see if we’ve published your topic already. Please make sure you check and see if we’ve already published a post on your topic. If we have, change your article subject, or consider whether or not you could write something with a fresh angle or from a different exciting perspective.
- Articles must be 100% Original: No re-published articles from your blog or elsewhere, please. It goes without saying that plagiarism has no place on our blog.
- Disclosures: Please fully disclose if you have a relationship with a company or person mentioned in the article (citing research from your site, say something like “Disclosure: I work for [company name]” or “This case study is from [name] a partner of mine”.
FAQ: Do you charge for guest posts?
At YourGuitarBrain, collaboration is our main currency; we only charge a small fee to cover our time to read and upload accepted articles (40 USD | 30 GBP).
The idea is you create a fantastic article that attracts engaged guitar and music enthusiasts to our site, and you’ll receive a valuable do-follow link back to your music-related website.
Submit your article ideas to us at info@yourguitarbrain.com and include your article title and copy ideas in the submission.
We look forward to potentially working with you!
Going Forwards
If we accept your pitch, we may or may not ask you to do some small revision edits to keep your post in line with the content on the blog or if the article doesn’t match what you’ve pitched to us.