Write for Us

Interested in writing an article or tutorial for us? Volume Zero gives you a guest blogging opportunity. We have ability to remain at a good service to everyone due to advertiser support. We reserve the right to publish ads on the same pages as your articles, to include ads in email alerts and/or XML feeds of any kind. We always welcome you to write for us and we shall give you the best guidelines as to how you can do the same.

Your article will undergo a pre-screening process and it will be published only on fulfillment of the following rules:

• CONTENT: Your Content must be 100% exclusively owned by you. Copy or duplicate content not allowed at any cost, there is no tolerance for this practice and authors who practice in this will be banned.
• MAX WORDS: The article must be a minimum of 500 words. Articles must be informative by providing useful content.
• LINKS: If your content sums up to 500 words, 1 link will be allowed in the last paragraph and if your content sums up to 1000 words, maximum 3 links will be allowed, anywhere in the article.
• MAX IMAGES: Provide at least THREE images relevant to your content and mention the credits for the respective person or party.
• NO OFFENSE: The content does not contain any adult/ pornographic content, defamatory, libelous, inflammatory or offensive, that promote hate literature or illegal activities or that are in violation of another person’s, or companies, rights or & trademarks.
• MINIMUM CHARACTER: Minimum 60 characters are allowed in the title.
• DAYS REQUIRED: Volume Zero will require at least 3 days to publish your content.
• MORE: The article does not include tag (keyword) clouds. NO Affiliate links.

What are we looking for?

Let’s go over what we are looking for, so you don’t end up wasting your time.

• We get emails & submissions which are completely unrelated to our niche. Please understand our website, the topics we cover, and our audience. We cover design, business, freelancing, applications, themes, SEO, social media, and other related topics. Do not try and submit something completely unrelated.
• Our audience consists of creative architects, interior designers, and freelancers looking to expand their mind and improve their skills. If you contact us and knowingly pitch something that isn’t beneficial to our audience, we will ignore your email.
• Be concise as possible. Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication.
• Remember to include links, pictures, and videos. Pictures and videos must be very high quality. They can make or break your product when it comes to product presentation. You may have the next best thing, but if you can’t show off your product in a way which people can understand, they’ll ignore it.

WHY YOU SHOULD WRITE FOR US?

This position is unpaid. However, it is a win-win situation. You help me keep up with great content and quality posts and in return, this site will help you gain more exposure in addition to promoting your site.

REQUIREMENTS

Now that you got an idea of kind of content we are looking for, let’s take a moment to go over the proper way of sending us your article.

Editing

It is not our responsibility to edit your article for you. Before you send your article over, have a friend or colleague edit it. We expect content that is ready to be published right away.

• Poorly written articles will be rejected. We won’t bother emailing you back.
• The article must match the quality of other posts on the site. Take a moment to visit our homepage and read an article for yourself.
• We’re not interested in articles that were half-assed, or slapped together in a few minutes.

Formatting

• Break your sentences in paragraphs.
• Use bulleted lists where possible.
• Don’t overuse bold and italic formatting.
• For main headlines use H2.
• For sub-headlines use H3.

Images

“What if I don’t have images?”
Don’t worry; we will make sure your article looks beautiful.
“I have my own images, what size should they be?”
If you are taking your own screenshots to illustrate the article, make sure the image width is atleast 800px wide, and the height is at least 400px, when saving for the web in Photoshop, save it as a JPG image with 80% quality.

Make sure to name the images correctly giving descriptive titles:

• bad example – pgffdgh4372e24352.jpg
• good example – how-to-build-a-content-marketing-team-2016.jpg

To better convey the point don’t forget to add a caption under the image.

LINKS

When linking out make sure the website you link to is credible and a trusted resource. Don’t link out more than needed. We may have previously discussed a topic or you refer to in your article.