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Benefits to Authors
BestToRead offers visitors and publishers the ability to select exactly the content they want, when they want it.
Specific Benefits to Authors:
1. Posted articles are seen by hundreds of newsletter publishers and site owners looking for free content, providing much greater exposure than an article might normally receive.
2. Posted articles are downloaded daily by visitors to BestToRead, exposing your links, services and/or products to a targeted and interested audience.
3. Increased article exposure equates to increased traffic and link popularity with a consequent improvement in site ranking.
Free and Re-Printable Content
BestToRead is a free content article directory. This means that any webmaster, publisher, or editor may re-print your article(s) subject to the basic terms and conditions outlined on this site. If you are an author that charges a fee for publication of your articles or requires that special terms be met prior to publication of your work, you should NOT submit your writings to this site.
Article Submission Guidelines
Article submissions to BestToRead are free and new additions to our database are indexed three times a day, roughly every 8 hours. This means that any article you submit will be searchable by, and available to, visitors the same day it is submitted.
Before submitting an article, please search the BestToRead database by author name or article title to ensure your articles have not already been added by someone else.
- We strongly recommend that you do not submit articles that are not your own unless the author has given you permission to do so.
- Submit your article to one category only.
- Submissions that are commercial or advertorial in content will be removed from the BestToRead database. BestToRead is a free-content directory not a forum for advertising commercial products, services or programs.
- Submissions that consist of a few lines of text with a link pointing to another site where the article supposedly resides will be removed.
- Article submissions that are plagiarized or in violation of another author's copyright will be removed.
- Articles must be spellchecked and proof read for grammatical errors prior to submitting - Do not submit articles filled with spelling errors and bad grammar. We do monitor article submissions and we will reject content that doesn't meet this requirement.
- By submitting your articles to BestToRead, you grant us the right to publish your articles - We may publish your article anywhere on our website, blog, or syndicate through RSS. We may also change where it appears, including the category, at any time.
- By submitting your articles to BestToRead, you grant others the right to publish your articles - Other BestToRead users have the right to publish your articles on their websites, in their newsletters or ezines, and more as long as the article is left in the original state. This includes the resource box which provides you credit as the author of the content.
- No affiliate links! - The articles that you submit to BestToRead should not contain affiliate links. It is acceptable, however, to mention the URL of helpful sites or your own website which redirects to the recommended affiliate product.
Note: All submitted articles must be approved by our staffs before publishing. BestToRead reserves the right to remove any article or articles for any reason with or without notice or explanation. In cases where the above or other guidelines are severely abused, so-called authors will be banned.
Article Criteria
Article submissions are subject to length restrictions. These are outlined below:
Title: maximum 10 - 150 characters.
Author Bio: maximum 1,000 characters. Allow only 3 url links.
Text: maximum of 30,000 characters or roughly 5,000 words.
Article Formatting and Links
We strongly recommend that authors submitting to BestToRead copy and paste articles from a basic text editor like Notepad. Following this suggestion will ensure that paragraph breaks, line length and other basic formatting will be properly handled by our submission form. Copying and pasting content from applications like MS Word can and does result in a variety of formatting problems. The reason for this is that MS Word and similar applications use non-ASCII, sometimes invisible, characters that are copied with article content into our submission form, causing articles to appear very differently from the way they were submitted.
Copyright and Violations
BestToRead 's policy prohibits the use of copyrighted material in a manner that violates the copyright owner's rights. In general, this means that authors should only submit their own original written work to which they have natural copyright.
In cases where copyright is disputed (usually as a result of plagiarism or unauthorized copying), articles will be immediately removed without recourse or discussion, regardless of the arguments presented by the disputing parties.
Actions to Take in the Event of Copyright Violation
BestToRead is a free content article directory. We act as an intermediary between authors and publishers and post guidelines for both regarding copyright adherence. However, copyright resides with the authors who submit to our directory, not with us. As a consequence, BestToRead has no legal standing to enforce copyright on behalf of authors.
Disclaimer
The articles on this Web site are provided for information purposes only and for redistribution as outlined in our guidelines. BestToRead.com does not accept any responsibility or liability for the use or misuse of the article content on this site or reliance by any person on the site's contents.
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