The London Business News Magazine thrives to publish content that is highly informational, helpful and insightful. This is to ensure that content on our platform performs well on the web and serves our readers.
We therefore need all our guest contributors to first accept our guidelines outlined below, before we can discuss a collaboration!
Please read through the points below very carefully as we expect you to understand our terms when making an enquiry. If you can accept these terms fully, then please submit your guest content with your confirmation of acceptance of our terms directly to info@londonbusinessnews.com and we will review it. If it meets all these guidelines, you will receive an approval confirmation and explanation of the publication procedure via email from us. If it does not meet our guidelines, we will inform you of how to improve your submission.
Guest Content Publication Policy – To be accepted by contributors:
- We accept high-quality guest content submissions and purposeful advertising on our London Business News website, you can find more information about our expectations here: Contribute Unique Business News | London Business News.
- Only quality and relevant content to our website will be accepted such as original concepts, compelling arguments, and high-quality writing. We will not republish anything that’s been published elsewhere.
- We require proper attribution of data, quotations, and outside content referenced in each article (check this page for more info: Harvard Website Citation.
- We accept useful images or (info)graphics to enhance the content that are copyright free and not licenced. They can be labelled with the source, but the image should be free to use for commercial and editorial purposes.
- Plagiarized contents and contents with grammatical or spelling errors will be disapproved.
- Each contribution should contain a minimum of 600-800 words, relevant images (royalty free and unlicenced images only) and you are responsible for the images you provide (also for referencing them correctly).
- Each contribution will be manually reviewed by our editorial team and based on our guidelines approved or disapproved.
- Your submissions will be reviewed & approved (or declined) usually within a maximum of 72 hours, so allow sufficient time until publication when submitting it.
For link placements in guest content submissions, we make the following differentiations:
- Guest content with a general hyperlink leading to a website page or post that is purely informational and does not include promotions, sales or advertisements is considered a basic guest publication.
- Guest content with a general hyperlink leading to a website page or post that is promotional or advertorial, encouraging readers to make a purchase or subscribe, is considered a branded guest publication.
- Guest content with a hyperlink leading to an adult content sales website is considered a special branded guest publication.
- All link placements should be appropriate, relevant, functional and useful reference links in the content you submit. Links cannot be changed or updated after publication for any reasons, unless the link is no longer functional.
- All contextual reference links are subject to editorial approval and upon review, the editors will share their feedback.
- For SEO advantages we recommend having a media release published with unique media and we can offer advice and optimisation support. You can also read this guide about SEO press releases to understand this format better and make the most of your submissions and publications.
- All press release submissions are subject to editorial review as the content and media added must be relevant to our readers and we recommend not to link repeatedly to the same sources as this does not offer helpful content. We provide advice on effective media and link placement when you send us your enquiry.
How articles are published:
Once you accept our policy and guidelines, please email your content to info@londonbusinessnews.com and provide:
- Title and a brief paragraph about the main outline and why your piece is relevant for our platform.
- Possible graphics/images/media you want added in your publication.
- Any information that helps us to ensure that we are clear about your submission.
- Your confirmation that you accept our terms and guidelines as outlined here.
If approved, send the following:
- Your completed text as a Google Doc or Word Doc with your media and hyperlinks to websites, resources, social media posts etc.
- Image files (with attribution) in a separate folder or inside the document.
- Short author bio including a maximum of one anchor text link to your own website/profile (optional).
Post-publication reserved rights and duties:
- We cannot allow you to republish your guest post to your own blog or any other platform after we have published it. However, you are free to share it like crazy with your social media audience.
- We reserve the right to edit and adapt your guest content as we see fit and update it in the future for accuracy and comprehensiveness.
- We reserve the right to include relevant links within our London Business News Blog to articles.
Payment Policy:
- You can publish guest and PR content on our London Business News website (http://148.251.170.201/) and you can find out more about all publication formats and terms here: Digital PR Services.
- The editorial fees charged cover our labour, time and effort spent by our content editors to maintain the functionality, quality, SEO and marketing of the platform and all content published. They are updated regularly on our website and we do not engage in long-term agreements as the fees and terms are subject to change.
We don’t engage in negotiations and the editorial fees charged are subject to change as they cover our work, but here are some guidelines for transparency:
- For informational, non-promotional content publications with one informational, non-promotional hyperlink – from £125
- For promotional content publications with one promotional hyperlink – from £150
- For informational, non-promotional content publications with one informational, non-promotional hyperlink leading to sensitive content websites – from £350
- For promotional content publications with one promotional hyperlink leading to sensitive content websites – from £400
- Additional added media or sources to be published alongside the text may lead to surcharges which the editors will inform the client about in advance.
- For all submitted content or listings added in existing list posts with a mention and website link, we reserve the right to review the request first and will then share our offerings and terms in the response email.
- The editors will inform you after reviewing your submission, which of these charges apply. You are required to pay the agreed amount upfront or after the submitted content has been published by us. We can accept post payment if you provide your payment details prior to the publication.
- Regarding post-paid payments, you should make the payment within three working days from the content having been published.
- Preferred Payment Gateway – PayPal or to our UK bank account (details will be provided in our invoice).
- If we haven’t received your payment within the three working days and reminders have been ignored, we may remove your content publication until the payment is received.
- NO REFUNDS will be entertained for any reasons once the content is live.
Thank you for your collaboration! We are excited to share incredibly insightful, valuable and informative content here that goes further!