Free Self Improvement SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Compliance with the following Article Submission Guidelines insures
your article(s) approval and inclusion in our Article Directory.

These guidelines are necessary to maintain the degree of professionalism
we promise our Readers, Publishers and Authors.

All of your approved articles will be included in Free Self Improvement article
directory, at Free Self Improvement,
for distribution to other publishers.

While Free Self Improvement understands, supports, condones and encourages
Article Marketing , we have established Guidelines for Authors to adhere
to in an effort to offer articles to Publishers and readers that are well
written and informative, but not blatant advertising.

Please read ALL of the following
Article Submission Guidelines completely. Understanding and adhering
to the Free Self Improvement Article Submission Guidelines will insure
the acceptance and listing of your article in the Free Self Improvement
Article Directory.

Free Self Improvement Article Submission Guidelines:

1. BASICS:

   1. Authors submitting articles to Free Self Improvement for approval to
      be added to the Free Self Improvement directory will not be compensated
      in any way, for the writing or submitting of any article.
   2. All author’s will reserve and retain all copyright to their
      articles.
   3. Author’s are only permitted to submit an article to one category. If
      you don’t see a category listed you feel is most appropriate for the
      subject matter of your article, please Contact
      Us using our “Contact Us Form” as the SUBJECT. Normally
      we approve all reasonable new category and Sub-Catagory’s, and notify
      you of their availability by return email. Free Self Improvement will reply
      to your email within 2 business days with our decision.
   4. Free Self Improvement reserve the right to publish your articles
      anywhere on our web site, blog or syndicate through RSS Feeds.
      Other Free Self Improvement users have the right to publish your articles
      on their web sites, in their newsletters or ezines, and more as long
      as the article is left in the original state including the information
      in your Resource Box giving you credit as author, and any links within
      the article or Resource Box.
   5. All articles submitted by you must be written/authored by you. Plagiarism
      will not be tolerated. Plagiarists will be banned without recourse. Anyone
      proven guilty of copyright infringement will have their Free Self Improvement
      account closed, all articles removed from the directory and be banned
      for life. We do track IP addresses.
   6. Your article should serve to educate and inform rather than
      just serve as a promotional piece. Include How To’s, Tips, Strategies,
      Techniques, Case-studies, Analyses, Opinions and/or Commentary in your
      articles from your own experience.
   7. Naturally, Free Self Improvement is looking for QUALITY articles with
      content that is informational and well thought out. Articles with grammatical
      or spelling errors will be rejected. Formatting will be covered below.
   8. Article Submission does NOT mean your article will be automatically
      accepted and listed in the Free Self Improvement Article Directory. Free Self Improvement
      has the sole authority to except or reject any article. As long as your
      article meets the requirements in these guidelines, your article will
      be accepted. However, if your article is not up to the general standards
      of our guidelines, Free Self Improvement will indicate the reason for rejection
      in your rejection email notice.
   9. If your article is rejected , you can resubmit your article
      2 additional times only, with errors corrected for approval. If errors
      are not corrected in the 3rd submission, it will not be reconsidered
      for approval again.
   10. Spamming of this directory will not be tolerated. Submitting
       multiple copies, (2 or more), of the same article using different Titles,
       or with only slight modifications is strictly forbidden. Offenders will
       have their articles deleted, account terminated and be banned from future
       submissions.
   11. Offensive content will be cause for immediate account termination. Articles
       must not promote hate, racism, pornography, hacking, bomb building, terrorism
       and other illegal and/or offensive activities.
   12. While direct affiliate links will NOT be
       tolerated , you are allowed to have links to pages on your domain
       that redirect to your affiliate program. NO Pop-Ups Allowed, NO
       Java Scripting Allowed. NO
       “Promotional” links are allowed in the Title, Summary or Body
       of your article. However ,Resource
       and Source Credit links, Up to a maximum of 3 “Source” links,
       (Links to a third party work you are referencing for credibility), in
       the body of your article ARE allowed.

2. Web Site Active/Inactive Links/Anchors/URLs

   1. Download links are STRICTLY Forbidden. No direct links to
      any type of digital download are allowed.
   2. Free Self Improvement does not accept articles that have the same ACTIVE
      link more than once. Do not submit duplicate identical URLs.
   3. Free Self Improvement does not knowingly allow any URLs in any of our
      articles that are banned by Google or if your web site engages in questionable
      SEO practices — Free Self Improvement may reject your articles.
   4. Free Self Improvement does not auto format URL’s that are in
      the BODY of your article.
   5. Free Self Improvement does not allow active links in the first sentence,
      or first paragraph or above the fold of an article.
   6. Free Self Improvement does not allow articles which have strategic
      keyword anchor text links in the body to your domain that
      do not add informational value to the article. Any use of anchored
      text links to web sites that you own should add value to the article
      topic rather than stand out as an obvious abuse an anchored text link.
      The goal with this policy is to be a good net citizen by only allowing
      articles that add value with the anchored text links rather than purely
      for SEO reasons.

      Example: Within your article, you link
      the word “bird dog” to an article that you wrote about bird
      dogging. This is a good example of an anchored text link vs. linking
      the same text to your home page as it doesn’t really add informational
      value.

   7. BANNED LINKS: Free Self Improvement
      will not accept articles with links (in the Article Body or Resource
      Box) to adult oriented web sites, including but not limited to web sites
      that include nudity, pornography, adult-oriented shopping sites and adult-oriented
      sexual content or any other potentially offensive or illegal content
      promoting hate, racism, hacking, bomb building, terrorism or any other
      illegal and/or offensive activities.
   8. EMAIL ‘MAILTO:’ LINKS: We highly recommend including a link
      to your web site in the Resource Box, but do not advocate including a
      mailto: or email link to your personal or work email account. Spammers
      will abuse it. Better to just include a web site URL and let potential
      customers find your email address on your web site.

3. Formatting Your Articles For Free Self Improvement

   1. Title
      1. Your article Title must be in Title Case (i.e.. I
         Write Great Articles First letter of each work is capitalized. Never
         all UPPER CASE.
      2. No Author or Web site Name or URL is allowed in the Title.
      3. No HTML tags are allowed in the Title.
      4. Do not put a “period” or “full stop” at the
         end of the Title.
   2. Article Body
      1. The article must be 400 words minimum and 3,500 words maximum.
         The ideal article size to us is between 400 to 1,500 words. Less
         than 400 words does not amount to much more than an advertisement.
         We are looking for actual informative and original content.
      2. Please do NOT repeat the article Title
         in the article body.
      3. Do not submit articles that are pre-formatted with excessive hard
         carriage returns such as articles that are pre-formatted to 60-65
         characters per line. The article text should flow continuously and
         wrap naturally. To effect a new line, press the “Enter” key
         once; to effect a new paragraph, press the “Enter”
         key twice to create a vertical white space.
      4. The following HTML tags ARE allowed in
         the article body:-
         • bold
         • italics
         • blockquote – to indent text
      5. The following HTML tags are NOT allowed in
         the article body:
         • Paragraph tag
         • Break tag
         • Image tag
         • Font tag
         • Header tag
         • Horizontal rule tag
   3. Author Name and Pen Names
      1. Author’s Name
         1. Your full name is required for your first article submission.
            Allowable: You can use, First & Last or, First - Middle Initial & Last
            or, First Initial - Middle Name & Last. Name prefixes such
            as Mr. Mrs. Ms. are not allowed . Name Titles such as
            Dr. (Doctor), Prof. (Professor) Capt. (Captain), are allowed .
            Name suffixes such as Sr. (Senior), Jr. (Junior), III (The third)
            are allowed. Suffix Titles such as Esq. (Esquire), M.D. (Medical
            Doctor, etc, etc.
      2. Pen/Alternate Author Names:
         1. Free Self Improvement will only allow one author membership account
            per individual, but you are allowed to have Pen/Alternate author
            names under your account (such as a pen-name or if you are an
            author’s assistant or manage articles for multiple different
            authors.
         2. ALL of the same rules for the Author’s Name above apply to
            the Pen/Alternate Author Names.
         3. The Author Terms Of Service applies to any ALTERNATE AUTHOR
            NAMES just as it does to you directly. So, be sure you
            have written permission to submit the articles under any Pen/Alternate
            Author Name that you might setup.
      3. ATTENTION AFFILIATES - Pen Names: We don’t accept articles
         with affiliate links in them. With that said, PLEASE do not setup
         a Pen/Alternate Author Name of a guru of an affiliate program that
         you want to promote. This will be considered “Impersonation” of
         another individual and will be cause for account termination. You
         can add alternate author names from your MEMBERS PROFILE once you
         are logged in to the members only area.
   4. ADDING KEYWORDS
      1. Adding the top keywords related to your article helps Free Self Improvement
         to bring more traffic to your article.
      2. Please make sure you put a comma between each KEYWORD.

      Ideally, your keywords should be optimized based on the most commonly
      searched keywords as published by Overture.com for your particular
      niche. It helps to use a good keyword research tool to help you determine
      which ones are best to use.

      3. You should have a minimum of 4-5 keywords and a maximum of 25.
         Free Self Improvement does not accept keywords that are completely
         unrelated to the content of your article.
   5. ARTICLE CATEGORY or SUB-CATEGORY
      - Choosing A Category or Sub-Category
      1. Please choose the best existing category or sub category based
         on the theme of your article and not the theme of your business.
      2. Suggesting/Requesting a new Category or Sub-Category is permitted. If
         you are unable to find an existing Category or Sub-Category you feel
         is appropriate for your article’s content/information, you can suggest/recommend
         a Category or Sub-Category by entering it in the* BODY *
         field/box as shown in the following examples:
         1. (Entered in the * BODY *
            Field/Box using ALL UPPER CASE LETTERS),
            NEW CATEGORY = METAL SCULPTURE - SUB-CATEGORY = WELDING
         2. (Entered in the * BODY * Field/Box
            using ALL UPPER CASE LETTERS),
            NEW SUB-CATEGORY TO HEALTH = HOMEOPATHY
      3. Requesting/Suggesting a new Category or Sub-Category does
         not guarantee the new Category or Sub-Category will be listed for
         your article. However, Free Self Improvement is understanding
         of all such requests and will take it under advisement. All reasonable
         (In the estimation of Free Self Improvement Staff), Request/Suggestions
         will be implemented. Please understand however, the process may
         slow the approval of your article by as much a 2 to 3 business
         days.
   6. Free Self Improvement reserves the right to make make minor changes/edits/additions
      to the above guidelines at any time without prior notice to our
      Member Authors. However, when there are any changes/edits/additions
      of a substantive nature to the above guidelines, Member Authors
      will be emailed notification of upon implementation.
   7. The articles in the Free Self Improvement on line article directory
      are provided for information purposes only and for redistribution as
      outlined in our guidelines.
   8. Free Self Improvement does not accept any responsibility or liability for
      the use or misuse of the article content on this on line article directory,
      by any other publisher or the reliance by any person on the content of
      any article.

The Free Self Improvement Administration and Staff hopes you find our publishing
process user friendly and effective.