Due welcomes guest contributors to our blog to help enrich our readership with relevant content that speaks to others retirement goals. Our goal is to provide useable information that helps our readers understand and comprehend retirement.

Requirements for writers

• Must be a leader in the Retirement, Annuity, Pension or Finance space
• Must have a degree and/or financial certification to write for Due.
• All posts must be 2000+ words in length or greater.
• We require data in every piece. In-depth research is key to posting.
• All post are reviewed by an industry expert with credentials. Must stand up to their scrutiny.

All content we share with readers is to help them on their journey to better fiscal responsibility, strategies, expenditures, debt management, helps and how-to’s, economic growth, budgetary needs and all financial understanding relating to business or personal matters.

We welcome requests for the opportunity to guest post on Due.

We currently have a readership over 1,450,000+ people (July 2021) a month coming to our blog. We are growing by about 13%-18% month over month.

These are people that reach out to our website for tips, suggestions. advice and reliable counsel to increase their retirement understanding. Most of our content is focused around businesses but we regularly post content that pertains to typical consumers.

Here are a few popular topics that our readers love to learn about:

• Retirement – tips to retiring early, saving more money and knowing what’s next.
• Personal Finance – how to pay bills, credit card tips, suggestions and in-depth information on how to manage their finances better.
• Annuity Plan – these are posts about annuities, how they work and who can buy them.
• Money Tips – these are tips on how to manage money. Many people don’t understand how to manage their money or prioritize wants over needs. These tips will help them understand and grow their money.
• Business MoneyTips – these are business tips in regards to how to manage their money better as businesses.
• Financial Quotes – these are inspirational money quotes from famous people to help them understand money better.
• Pension – these are blog posts about pension plans, everything people should know about pensions and how they work.

To participate in our guest contributor publishing program, we have established a set of guidelines listed below.

First, if you have not already done so, please make yourself an account with each of the follow spaces on Social Media.

• @due – Follow and RT as many as you can.
• Facebook – Like a few posts, it helps us grow.
• Instagram – We love hearts.
• Medium – We have one of the top 10 Medium publications on the planet.
• Linkedin – Like a post or two.
• YouTube – Subscribe, it helps get more views.

Guest Posting Rules for Due

Write and Submit Your Author Bio/Profile

When you establish an author profile with Due, please include the following information:

• Biographical information, which will be attached to every post that is published on the Due blog. This should be a short and sweet “tweet” type bio of who you are and why you’re important. We like to limit this to 200 characters. Please make sure this is unique and highlights you as an expert. Please reference your college and accreditation’s as well.
• Next, study this profile page. This is a complete profile. We aim to have every profile on our page replicate it. All content must be unique to that page and have not been used before somewhere else.
• A 200 x 200 minimum profile photograph

Blog Post Lengths

• We are looking for posts that range from 2,000-5,000 words. We prefer 3,000+ words as we find that they rank better in Google. This will give you a lot more credibility. 2500+ word post also get auto-syndicated to our partners like Nasdaq, Entrepreneur Magazine, Business 2 Community, Yahoo Finance, Investors.com, ValueWalk, MSN and many more.
• Longer blog post lengths provide the reader with a significant amount of information that they can use that encourages them to return again and again to the site.
• Keep in mind, the longer and more in depth the post is, the more likely it is to be picked up by some of our partners we work with.

Citations, Links, and Relationships

• Please link your first link in every post going back to a relevant internal Due blog post that compliments yours.
• Use external links for when you incorporate any third-party perspectives, evidence, and statistics.
• Always rely on credible sources, including research studies and major publications. Do not use Wikipedia as a source as it’s always changing.
• Any relationship with a company or person that is mentioned in a post must be disclosed within the content. For example, Company A, a client of mine, offers….” when in doubt, disclose.
• If you have written a post focused on a non-sponsored, non-affiliated product review, there needs to be a disclosure included at the top and bottom of the blog post.
• If you use a quote within an article, you may only link to their Twitter handle unless previously approved by Due’s editorial staff.
• We don’t mind if you do some self promotion for your business, but anything overtly salesy is not appreciated and will be removed.
• Our editorial staff reserves to right to add rel=”nofollow” to any link or remove a link attached to words or images before or after publication
• Do not link to any questionable sources or industries, such as pharmaceuticals, casinos, payday loans, or pornography.
• Buying, selling, or trading links that appear in posts is strictly prohibited.

SEO Best Practices

• HTML formatting related to bulleted lists, headers, bolding, etc.
• 1 WordPress category
• Shortened titles in the meta title section
• Alt tags for any images used in the blog post
• No keyword linking
• All quotes must be cited properly
• If there is a link in the post that isn’t valuable to the reader, it’ll be removed.
• We do NOT accept the following types of links in articles: Gambling, Casino, Drugs, Violence, Real Estate, Lawyers, Porn, Adult, etc. We reserve the right to remove every and all links in every post. We rarely do this but occasionally we do.

Formatting

• Write out numbers from 1, 2, 3, etc.
• Write percentages as digits.
• Use one space after all punctuation.
• Use the Oxford comma format.
• In headings, first and last words are always capitalized. All other words are capitalized in a heading except articles (an, a, the, etc.), coordinating conjunctions (for, and, or, but, etc.), also, prepositions that contain three or fewer letters (in, one, at, etc.).
• Headers in H2 tags and sub-headers in H3 and H4 tags.
• No spam or div tags.
• No filler formatting that impacts how the content appears.

Images

• Always upload a featured image that is at least 650 pixels wide and 400 pixels tall. Make sure that the featured image appears correctly before submitting the blog post for editorial review.
• Use center alignment for photos used within the blog post unless they are aligned with text.
• Set the display size for all images to “large.”
• Upload at least one image per blog post and place it within the first approximately 150 words.
• Use image from sites that release all licenses, such as Unsplash, Pixabay, etc. You may also use images that you have created, photographs you have taken yourself, and illustrative screenshots that you have developed.
• All images must have alt tags and title attributes. Use the title of the blog post or a brief description of the photo.
• Do not use charts, graphs, or illustrations from other websites unless you have the consent of the Due editorial staff as well as the original author of the post that designed the graphics. However you may create your own original graphs.
• Do not use any images that have a brand, logo or have external links displayed on them. Do not include any branded images that may appear to make the blog post into sponsored content.
• Do not use memes.
• The Due editorial staff has the right to replace or remove any images that they believe are irrelevant, inappropriate, or that carry a negative connotation at any time, including before or after publication.

All images used must be properly attributed like seen in the example below:

Image Credits

Featured Image: URL of Photo with link

In-post Photo: URL of Photo

Screenshot by [Author’s Name]. Taken Month Year.

 Due’s Publishing Process

After you hit the “Submit for Review” button, here’s what happens to your blog post:

• The post arrives on the desk of our Editorial Assistant who then checks to ensure that your blog post draft follows Due’s editorial guidelines.
• The post is then submitted to copyeditor review where an editor looks for any necessary changes related to grammar, spelling mistakes, and content flow. Links are checked for accuracy, relevance, and adherence to Due’s linking guidelines. References are also checked to ensure proper attribution. Depending on the content flow and overall writing there may also be some copyedits at this stage in the publishing process.
• We run all posts through Copyscape, if your posts matches more than 8% text to another piece we classify this article as duplicate content and your article will be rejected. If you have an article rejected you will be removed as an author for Due.
• Your post will go to Editor Hold if the editorial staff has requested that you make changes and we are awaiting a response. You will be notified by email about any change requests. At that point, you can login and view the editor’s requests under “Editorial Comments.” The sooner you respond with the changes, the faster your post will get published. If you see “Editor Hold” on your post’s status but have not received an email with requested changes, please contact us at [email protected].
• Once all editorial changes are completed, your post will be changed to “Ready for Publishing” status. Typically, each post involves a 2-4 week turnaround from post submission to publication.
• Once your post has been published, you can actively participate by responding to any comments that are posted. This can help you build a larger following and develop your personal brand. If there are any comments that are deemed controversial, we ask that you defend your article in a calm, rational manner rather than to give into any baiting from the person who posted something negative.
• We are fortunate to have a large volume of incredible posts from our regular contributing authors. Please note that we cannot share all blog posts that are published on Due’s social media platforms, which include Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Due’s social media team determines what existing content fits the company’s social media strategy.
• Special note: once a post is published on Due, we will not remove the post. Submitting your post to Due gives Due the full rights to your piece of content, videos and/or images in post. aka, we own the content. By submitting your article to us, you acknowledge this.

Editorial Review

• You must write your own posts. If the Due editorial staff finds that you have other writers handling your blog posts, then we have the right to reject or delete any post. The editorial staff may also decide that you will no longer be invited to serve as a contributing author.
• A blog post can be edited and/or rejected for any reason.
• A disclaimer may be added to any blog post that discloses any type of relationship that Due or you have with a company or organization that is listed within the post.

Content Republishing

• To maximize the search ranking potential of all blog posts, it’s important to ensure that there are no duplicate content issues with Google.
• We only permit content to be republished on Medium. You may not republish content from the Due blog on your company or personal site until two weeks after being live on the Due blog.
• If we see a post published anywhere else, your post may be removed from the Due blog.

Guest Contributors Rules at a Glance

Perks of Writing for Due

• Author Bio on Due Website.
• Exposure for your business to millions of readers that come every month to our blog.
• Syndication relationships: We’ve partnered with Mashable, Entrepreneur, MSN, NADSAQ, AOL, and countless other publications that re-publish (syndicate) our content onto their sites. This helps our writers get their names and articles in front of millions more people.
• Followed by @due twitter and Instagram account
• Access to audience of over 1MM Engaged Readers
• Partnership with Medium; Most of our top posts get syndicated to our Medium publication. We currently have one of the top ten publications on Medium. This results in millions of additional readers seeing the articles that you’ve written.

Questions

If you have additional questions regarding our contributing author program, please contact our editorial staff at [email protected].