While I'd love to publish articles by guest authors, the workload to review and edit contributions takes time. With more than 20 inquiries a week, we're implementing a new process to insure contributors are supporting our mission to educate homeowners with high quality information that helps them protect their investment and enjoy life more!
Want to Write Content for Home Tips?
Here are the steps to follow if you're serious about working with the HomeTips team. It starts with a minimum of 4/more articles per year.
- Demonstrate you've spent time on our website to understand our categories and writing style. Document this by promoting three (3) articles on Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter and/or LinkedIn … and sharing links to these in your initial email.
- Write your proposed article title, intro paragraph and category (listed below) where the article should go. Tell us your goal for the article and the link you want to include in your article … as that's why you want to publish on HomeTips.
- Home maintenance and repair but make sure you're not duplicating ones we already have … and absolutely NO maintenance checklists. Our focus on:
- Windows, doors, wood rot and other exterior maintenance.
- Electrical and things that need power like lighting and appliances.
- Plumbing, bathrooms and appliances that use water.
- Energy efficiency including HVAC systems, insulation, caulking, etc.
- Keeping homes healthy and safe as our homes become more airtight.
- Painting, interior trim and drywall.
- Organization and home storage.
- Weather and other home emergencies, and dealing with insurance companies. These articles will be published at HomeInsureClaims.com.
- Home maintenance and repair but make sure you're not duplicating ones we already have … and absolutely NO maintenance checklists. Our focus on:
- Review our requirements for articles below. Make sure you're comfortable you can meet them before submitting your inquiry as we don't want to waste anyone's time.
- Email this input to tina@hometipsforwomen (dot) com and we should get back to you in about one week, depending on how many inquiries are in the queue.
After You Write, Here's What We Do …
I love (not really) all the emails I get offering “free” content. Nothing's free as here's what we need to do before publishing your article:
- Verify that the website you're linking to is consistent with our website editorial and technical quality.
- Verify the author has the skills to support the technical content in the article. For ghost writers, this means the business owner or lead contractor has reviewed the article for accuracy, along with their contact info so we can confirm this.
- Confirm your article has not been published anywhere else on the web.
- Upload and edit your article, to be consistent with our editorial guidelines. This step alone typically takes one to 1.5 hours.
Article Requirements
The rules here are the ones we use for all of our new content, and time permitting we're going back to update older articles. They allow us to deliver quality, educational content covering the entire homeowner life cycle. They combine my experience owning 15 houses and running a handyman business for eight years.
| Required | Description |
| Category | Which Home Tips category your article fits in (over 50 to pick from). |
| Title | Recommended title for your article, although we might change it. |
| Keyword | Question or phrase people would search for … that your article explains. |
| Intro Paragraph | Typically 3 to 4 sentences, it should explain the readers problem and how your article will help solve their problem. |
| # Words | When you write content it must be unique. It should have 1,000/more words (ours average 1,500 words). You can use WordCounter.net for quick counting. |
| Headers | Articles should be broken down into 3 to 5 sections, each one starting with a header. Each section should be 3 or 4 paragraphs, and ideally one should be a list which is easier to read … but most visitors only scan content! |
| Links | Your article should link to two (2) related articles on Home Tips, plus one article on your target website (or quality/relevant social media account). Other links to related sources like government sites allowed. |
| Photos | Relevant photos (we use 1920px x 1080px images) for each section, indicating photo source and source – yours, purchased or free photo site. |
We hope you understand these rules and agree to use them for the content you submit. We look forward to your first email that outlines your ideas.
PS Writing quality is very important. If you're not a native English speaker/writer, please make sure you have someone edit before submitting. That's because we'll quickly discard articles that require extensive editing.
