Mindconnection has been in business since 1997. We have a large and loyal audience, and they are our first concern. Thus, our article submission policy is geared toward them.

We already have well over 30,000 pages listed in Google alone. So, we aren't desperate for articles. We typically carry a 2-month backlog of submitted articles awaiting review and editing. We are sticklers for Standard Written English and good composition. So, these reviews take time. That said, we are always willing to post good content. And, we have regular contributors.

We do provide you with a short attribution and a link to your Website. Be sure to include that with your submission.

Everyone benefits from quality content. Follow these guidelines, so people can benefit from your quality content. Please read the Dos and Don'ts below, so you understand why we do what we do and don't do what many others do. After that, you can read some FAQs related to article submission.

Please observe the Do and Don't items, below.

Do

• Review your article to see if it has value to potential readers. Puff pieces won't be accepted.
   
• Send us something that you haven't sent out to everybody else. If you have an existing article you've sent out, think of ways you can put a different twist on it--change the introduction or some other element, for example. It doesn't have to be a unique article, but that is the ideal.
   
• Arrange your material logically, so it flows from point to point.
   
• Observe rules of composition--you may not know them all, but you had the basics in school. Aim for clarity of message with the least number of words.
   
• Observe the rules of spacing for typed documents. That is, use single spaces. This is the standard--look in any magazine going back even to the American Civil War, and you will see single spaces.
   
• Use no fancy formatting.
   
• Try to keep spelling and grammar errors down to a dull roar. We do proofread, but you should also check these things. We are bombarded by e-mails and article submissions that look like third-graders wrote them. We don't insist on perfection--with a language as complicated English, that would be unrealistic.
   
• Keep your message clear and concise.
   
• Remember the reader at all times.

• Send us a puff piece. It won't be accepted. Do this twice, and we're likely to just block your e-mails.
   
• Send us stuff you've posted everywhere else. It's fine if it's been viewed in a few other places. But if you are sending out your content to everyone else, there's no need for us to have it as well. We don't demand exclusivity, but we also don't want mass content.
   
• Send us a meandering piece that leaves the reader thinking, "What's the point?".
   
• Write something that breaks basic rules of composition. If your writing isn't clear and concise, please don't try to post it on the Internet..
   
• Use double spaces. Nothing screams "I can't write" louder than the use of double spaces. Anyone who reads anything that is published (books, magazines, newspapers) and still gets this wrong is not author material.
   
• Send us something that has fancy formatting.
   
• Send us something laden with errors in spelling and grammar. You may have a great message, but it's not our job to fix your garbled prose. We do fix minor errors, and we have some regular authors who make regular errors but provide us great stuff that's worth the free editorial services for them.
   
• Prattle on to fill the page.
   
• Forget the reader at any time.