Guest Posts on Take Paws
Life is good! It’s easy to get excited about traveling around the US and Canada with our dogs. And, we love that many of you travel vicariously with us through our blog and photos. Our biggest challenge? Simply trying to cover it all!
Rod, Amy, Ty, Buster and the GoPetFriendly Winnebago
We’re hoping you’ll help. Enlist your pet and play “tourist for the day” – even if it’s in your own backyard. Do a bit of research, have a bunch of fun, and give our readers a guide to the pet-friendly best of the best.
We don’t want you chasing your tail, so we’ve put together the following guidelines and suggestions for your submission.
The Ins and Outs
Topics
Take Paws readers rely on quality, practical advice and how-to’s. Posts that highlight a number of pet friendly activities (e.g. “24-hours in This City”) or those that take a detailed look at one location are especially popular. Remember, this is a travel blog … submissions that do not focus on pet travel will be rejected.
Length of Post
Submissions should be between 400 and 600 words. If heavy editing is required, we may reject the post.
Format
Feel free to submit your content in Word or plain text format. It’d be great if you could also follow these points in preparing your post for us.
- For all links, include the URL in brackets within the prose, immediately after the text you’d like to use as the link text.
- Indicate within the prose where you’d like the images to be placed, and provide any captions you want included.
- Bold your subheadings so they are easy to spot.
Links to your own blog or website
You’re welcome to link back to your own site within the post if it’s relevant to the topic you’re writing about. Links that are off-topic or too numerous may be removed, or we may reject the post altogether. We’re happy to promote you, as long as it’s done subtly. Your best bet is to pique the interest of our readers by writing a high-quality, helpful post.
Images
In travel, it’s all about the pictures. And pictures that include pets are the best! We ask that each post has at least two images and please note:
- Images can be of any size, but the maximum width of photos on the blog is 530 pixels.
- It’s up to you to ensure the images you submit have proper attribution and do not infringe on a copyright.
- Submit images as separate files in your email, or send us a link to the location where we can download the image. Please don’t submit images by pasting them into your post document.
Ty and Buster at Independence Pass
Editing
We edit all the posts that appear on Take Paws. We rarely edit them heavily, but we will change titles, rework openings or conclusions, add links, or correct grammar and spelling. We hope you won’t be offended—we’re just trying to make every post we publish as successful as possible. Our goal is to get a post that hits the mark with our readers—which is also good for you.
Byline
You’ve worked to give us great content, and we’re happy to help you promote you. Provide us with a byline, which should be a sentence or two explaining who you are and what you do. Feel free to include up to two links in it. Your byline will appear at the bottom of your post. We’ll also write a short introduction that will include your main link, which will appear at the top of the post.
Exclusivity
We ask that the posts you submit to us are written exclusively for use by us. While you’re more than welcome to write on the same topic, our hope is that posts that appears on Take Paws don’t appear in the same form elsewhere.
We may decline to use your post because of its quality, the relevance of the topic, or because we’ve recently posted on the same subject. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us, and we’ll do our best to answer them.
Thank you! We can’t wait to your stories about the places you’ve visited with your pets!
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