ResourceSchool.com Article Directory Submission Guidelines

You will need to comply with the following Article Submission Guidelines to insure the approval of your article(s) and inclusion in the Resource School Article Directory. There will be no exception to these guidelines. The purpose is to maintain the professional standard promised to our Readers, Authors and Publishers.

Our article directory will include all the articles submitted by you and approved by us, and are available for distribution to other publishers.

We support and encourage promotional articles but our specific author guidelines have been framed in order to provide informative and well researched articles to our readers, not deliberate advertising.

ResourceSchool.com Article Submission Guidelines:

If we decide that an article has been fabricated through software programs, it will be declined with no recourse and the author will be immediately barred. For articles submitted from the article submission websites, all resource information will have to be eliminated.

Basics:
no compensation will be provided to authors who submit articles to the ResourceSchool article directory. Authors will retain the copyright to their articles. You are allowed to submit an article to a single category only. If you cannot find a category which, according to you, is very important for your article, you must Contact Us. Usually, we approve all rational new categories and sub-categories, whose availability is confirmed by return email containing our decision within 1 business day.

The right to publish or syndicate your articles through RSS feeds is reserved by ResourceSchool.com. As long as the original state and resource box containing author credit is included, your article can be published by other users at their websites, ezines or newsletters.   

You can only submit articles written by you. We do not tolerate Plagiarism and ban plagiarists instantly without recourse. In case of copyright infringement, the ResourceSchool account will be closed, deleted from the directory and barred for life. For this, we monitor IP addresses and check submissions against a banned list of articles.

Your article should be able to spread awareness and educate and not just serve promotional purposes. Use your own experiences to include techniques, strategies, How To’s, opinions, case studies, analyses and other forms of informative content.  Articles with spelling errors and grammatical problems will be edited or rejected. We will cover formatting guidelines below.

ResourceSchool.com reserves the authority to accept or reject any article. Submission does not automatically warranty the inclusion of your article in our article directory. Your articles should meet the stipulated requirements to have a good chance of being accepted. If your article fails to meet our requirements, you will receive a rejection email notice stating the reasons for the same.  Rejected articles may be resubmitted after correction of errors. The process will begin again if the article is submitted with error again.

We do not tolerate spamming of the directory. Multiple copies of the same article with slight modifications is also forbidden. Offenders will be immediately banned and their accounts closed and deleted from the article directory. Account termination may also occur in case of offensive content including articles promoting pornography, bomb building, hacking, racism, terrorism or any other wrongful activities. We reserve the right to classify any article as illegal or offensive.

Direct affiliate links will not be allowed but you can have links to pages on your domain that are redirected to the affiliate program. The title, body or summary of the article must not contain Promotional links, Pop-ups or Java scripting. We allow source credit links (maximum 3) to be included in the body of your article.

Web Site Active/Inactive Links/Anchors/URLs

Download links will not be tolerated. We do not allow direct links to any digital downloads. Virus scans are used to check all links. Articles with the same Active link appearing more than once will not be accepted. Duplicate identical URL should not be submitted. ResourceSchool.com doesn’t intentionally allow any links banned by Google to be included in any of the articles. Articles with questionable SEO practices will also be rejected.

URL’s included in the body of the article are not auto formatted by ResourceSchool. Active links are not allowed in the first line of an article. ResourceSchool.com doesn’t allow strategic keyword anchor text links in the body of articles that do not add any informative value to the article. This decision is subject to the evaluation of our editors and review staff. Only anchored links that provide additional worth to your article should be included. The intention is to act as a good net citizen by allowing that don’t abuse anchored text links for SEO reasons. The best way to ensure that your article is accepted in our article directory is to include no text anchored links in it.

Banned links:
Articles with links to adult oriented websites will not be accepted by ResourceSchool.com. This will extend to websites including pornography, adult-oriented shopping, nudity and adult-oriented sexual content or any other potentially illegal or offensive content.

Email ‘mailto:’ Links:
Including a link to your website in the Resource Box is highly recommended but a mailto: or personal email account link is not recommended. These are abused by Spammers. Potential customers can find your email address from your website. So its better to just include a website URL. 

Article formatting for ResourceSchool.com

Title
The article title must be in Title Case. The first letter of each word must be capitalized but never all upper case.
No website or author name is allowed to be included in the article title. HTML tags cannot be included in the title. Do not put a “full stop” or “period” at the end of the title. Part numbers can only be included in the Title if the preceding part number has already been submitted, approved and included in our article directory.

Summary Box
The summary box must end with a complete sentence and a period (.), not with ellipses.
The content of your article must be summarized in one paragraph. This entry will be displayed as description provided to the publishers in our RSS feeds. It has to be complete and grammatically right.

Article body
the maximum word limit for the article is 3500 words. The ideal article size will be between 500-1500 words. We are looking for educational and original content. The article title should not be repeated in the body. Do not submit pre-formatted articles with excessive hard carriage returns. Article text should have a continuous flow and wrap naturally. For a new line, press “Enter” key once and to start a new paragraph, press “Enter” key twice.  

The HTML tags given below are allowed to be included in the article body:
Italics
Bold
Blockquote – for text indention
Text links – to relevant ‘content websites’ only

The HTML tags that are not allowed in the article body are:
Break tag
Image tag
Font tag
Paragraph tag
Header tag
Horizontal rule tag
Text links- to irrelevant websites

Author Name and Pen Names
Author’s Name
For the first article submission, your full name is required. Allowed forms include: 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 M.D. (Medical Doctor, etc, etc.) are also allowed.

Pen/ Alternate Author Name
ResourceSchool.com provides a single author membership account per individual but there can be Pen names under your account. all rules for Author’s Name will apply to Pen names also.
ATTENTION AFFILIATES - Pen Names
Articles with affiliate links are not accepted by our directory. You are requested not to setup a Pen/Alternate Author Name of a guru of an affiliate program for promotion. This will be considered as ‘Impersonation’ and lead to instant account termination and possible legal action. Once you are logged in to the Members only area, you can add alternate author names from your Members Profile. 

Adding Keywords
ResourceSchool.com can bring more traffic to your article if you add the related top keywords. Be sure to put a comma between each keyword. It helps to use a good keyword research tool to determine the best ones. The number of keywords can vary from a minimum of 4-5 to a maximum of 25. Unrelated keywords will not be accepted. ResourceSchool.com does not edit or suggest your keywords.

Article Category or Sub-Category
Please select the most suitable category or sub-category on the basis of your article’s theme and not the theme of your business. Requests for a new category or sub-category are allowed.  Such recommendation can be made by entering it in the “BODY” field as shown below:
(Entered in the * BODY * Field/Box using ALL UPPER CASE LETTERS),
NEW CATEGORY = HOME MADE JEWELRY - SUB-CATEGORY = WIRE NECKLACES 

ResourceSchool.com will consider all requests for new categories and sub-categories but doesn’t guarantee their listing. All reasonable requests will be accepted and implemented. Please remember that this process may slow down the acceptance of your article by 2-3 business days.  

The right to make minor changes/edits/modifications/additions to the above guidelines at any time without prior notice to the Member Authors is reserved by ResourceSchool.com. However, changes of a substantive nature will be notified through email to Member Authors upon implementation.

ResourceSchool.com reserves the right to “synonymize” submitted articles to gain higher search engine ranking. It also reserves the right to publish this content on its sister sites.

The articles included in our online article directory are provided for informative purposes only and redistribution as summarized in our guidelines. ResourceSchool.com accepts no responsibility or liability for the use or misuse of the content of articles included in our directory, by any other publisher or the reliance upon by any person on the content of any article. 

We hope that you find the publishing process of ResourceSchool.com easy, user-friendly and effective.