Editorial Guideline
Our main objective is to educate people on all things facilities and office management. Therefore, most of our articles emphasize the advantages of organization, moving, cleaning, and sanitizing.
Topics
We mostly talk about cleaning and disinfecting. You might sometimes see blogs written on office organization, supplies, drug testing, reality, management, and children. Target audience My reader are project managers, office managers, owners, and controllers. They are looking to solve a problem with their building or office.
Submission process
Submit your articles at info@excelcleaningservices.com. We will review them within two weeks and send you our feedback. We always reply, regardless of whether or not we decide to publish your article - but if you haven’t heard back from us in two weeks’ time, drop us a follow-up and we’ll send you an update. Sometimes, things can get quite busy here.
Link policy
We do allow external links to other nonrelated businesses in the actual article, no more than three links. However, you should absolutely hyperlink any source of information that supports your article, offers more information, or simply provides readers with data drawn from surveys, studies, and so on. Also, please keep in mind all links will be no-follow.
On-page SEO
We try to attract as many visitors to our site as we can - and for this reason, our articles are always optimized for the search engines. You don’t have to worry about that, though - send us your article as it is and focus more on the quality and relevance of the content, rather than making it Search Engine Optimized. We’ll take care of that during our editorial process - so yes, you might notice slight changes in the published form of the article you send to us.
Pictures
You don’t have to worry about pictures - we have our own database of pictures to use.
Style and formatting rules
No particular formatting rules here - we’ll edit your article to suit our blog article formats. However, we are very particular about the academic sources you may cite - if you need to use such citations, make sure to reference them using the APA style. We like to keep our cleaning knowledge-sharing fair for the scientific community :). Also, try to avoid profanity language - as our target audience may be feel offended if you use curse words or language that triggers their personal, religious, or ethnic sensitivities.
Article length
We like offering real value to our readers - and for this reason, we insist on receiving articles that are no shorter than 700 words. At the same time, it is probably best to keep your submission under 2000 words as well - but if you really feel the extra words would add even more value, go ahead and make your articles as long as you think it’s appropriate.
Re-posting policy
We do not accept articles that have been published anywhere else, not even on your personal website.
Payment options
At this point, we cannot compensate our guest authors with money. However, you should know our website is read by an average of 200 visitors every day - so if you are looking to expand your horizon, attract more users to your own website, or simply make a name for yourself, you are more than welcomed to submit your article with us.
Bio/ headshot
When you submit the article, please submit a short (100 words max) Bio however no headshot. Yes, you can use one link to your website in your Bio - but, same as all the other links, this too will be a no-follow
Copyright issues
Not only will we not accept re-posts on our website, but we are very specific about the rights you will own once the article is published here as well. In particular, you will be allowed to use your article for your portfolio, and the article will definitely be associated with your name. However, do not re-post the article once it’s been published on “Excel Cleaning Services”. You risk your site’s SEO and ours too. If we discover you have copied anything from another website, we will automatically reject your submission - but the good news is that you will probably hear about this in much less than two weeks, as plagiarism is the first thing we check for when we receive guest author submissions.