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I am always happy to have people smarter than me do a guest post here on MT Herald.  There is far too much going on in the healthcare documentation industry and in the financial world which I doubt I may be able to cover everything that’s going on. Hence I welcome with a bowed head anyone willing to share the information he/she has on the topics listed below in which I too have interest.

I get dozens of pitches a week for exchanging links from this blog which I usually deny or delete at the instant I go through the message but the pitches have become so enormous that I think those pitches should be converted in a productive way to obtain some good, informative articles.

Henceforth it would be appropriate to have a set of predetermined guest post policy guidelines (or guest post rules), so that anybody interested in guest post blogging or wishing to get links from MT Herald could be referred here to have an idea of what needs to be done for getting their articles accepted.

You don’t need to be a blogger to write a guest post here on MT Herald.  If you have a thought or information that you think will benefit any reader, you’re welcome to share the information through a guest post; don’t worry about the formatting, search engine optimization and miscellaneous other problems, I’ll take care of it.  However, if you are a blogger, by the time you are going to make a guest post blogging pitch, let me hope that you have already educated yourself on the basic blogging lessons of “How to be a good guest blogger?” and how to make the best out of the given guest posting opportunity, and that I do not have to elucidate much on all those aspects of making successful blogging pitches or projecting yourself as a good guest poster.

You can have a byline about yourself at the end of the post containing up to two, one-way, do-follow links of your choice in the byline to your blog, but definitely not an affiliate link or a link to an affiliate landing page on your blog. Linking only to the front page of an active blog and/or a post on it is allowed.

Also please note that an author’s self-serving links are only allowed in the author byline. Any link inside the content of a guest article should only be to resources and only allowed if deemed necessary.

Here are those other guest post guidelines that you need to abide before submitting an article for guest posting:

It should be:

• Compelling unique content not published anywhere on the Internet before.
• An MS Word document.
• Written in US English.
• Useful somehow to the readers and not just a bunch of vocabulary.
• Having at least one Creative Commons Licensed and attributed image, diagram, or infographic (compulsorily).

It could be:

• An article related to finance, business, banking, insurance, debt, credit card, retirement planning, stocks, savings, investing, real estate, economy, foreign exchange & currency trading, tax planning, shopping, frugal living, and other money matters.
• An article related to healthcare documentation, medical transcription, medical transcription industry, medical transcription business, medical transcription news, medical coding, medical billing, HIPAA, EMR, EHR etc.
• Tips related to blogging, computer, Internet, tech etc., or even on office ergonomics.
• Anything related to uplifting the role of women in the society and betterment of their life but nothing on cooking, baking or household chores please.
• An article on your experience, your thoughts, what made you land in your career, how do you find it, and where do you think you’ll be in the next ten years in your career.

It should not be:

• A self promotional article just for the sake of encouraging the reader to visit the link in the author’s byline.
• A sales pitch of your web site or product.
• A review of any sort.
• An article with numerous spelling and grammatical mistakes.
• Anything related to gambling.
• Anything that is not suitable for family audience like pornography.
• Defaming or tarnishing any individual or organization.
• A topic that has been extensively written about in the past.
• Less than 1000 words.
• Reposted anywhere on the net once it goes live here. If found reposted, instant flagging of the other blog and the article on the other blog to Google under Digital Millennium Copyright Act as scraping with reference to the time and date of publishing the article on this blog and/or deletion of the article on this blog immediately without any further notice, and any further requests for guest blogging here will be turned down with no reason cited.

Furthermore, effective from April 3, 2012, in order to discourage low quality article marketing, spun content, and fake authors, I am enforcing Google authorship guidelines. (Read “You write an article for a website, and you have no author page on that domain” in that link.) Your real name along with a rel=”author” attribute should be linked in the introduction part of the guest post to your Google+ profile, and you have to link back to this site from the “contributor to” section of your G+ profile, as per the second option of Google’s directives for setting up authorship. To know exactly how it is done, see this example.

(Note: If you play foul removing the link in the “contributor to” section of your profile after your article is live here on MT Herald, either your link in the article will be removed or nofollowed, or your article will be deleted or noindexed.)

Moreover, you should be willing to answer any ensuing comments/queries/doubts in the comments section for at least a time span of three days after publishing the post failing which could result in removal of the attribute link or addition of rel=”nofollow” to the source code of the link without the author of the article being informed.

No changes will be made to the contents or format of the articles that you submit and the entire credit, whatsoever, goes to you alone.  However, if found needed to make some changes due to various obvious reasons such as search engine optimization, controversies etc., you may be requested to make changes before publishing.

If you have a post that meets the above-said guidelines, write a killer title within 64 characters (including spaces) with appropriate keywords included that may compel to click anybody if found on the search engines and send it to my email address mt [at] mtherald [dot com] and expect a reply within a day if your post has been accepted or not, or if it needs any alteration, and if accepted the possible date of the article going live.  If rejected, you are obviously free to use it anywhere on the net. To get an idea of how the guest authors have already written in the past, browse the sample guest posts at MT Herald.

So what are you waiting for? You can’t buy links from this blog at any cost. Why not make the best use of this guest blogging opportunity? Start now writing a guest article for MT Herald!