Write For Us – Guest Writing Opportunities

We’re pleased to hear that you’re interested in guest writing for us here at Retail Guru. You’ll enjoy guest writing for us and in return receive a host of benefits.

We’re currently looking for guest bloggers that can come and share tips and advice on all aspects of Retail and Retailing. We of course understand the importance of assisting other budding bloggers in the blogosphere; we want to help you as a blogger, gain credibility and the respect you deserve in building your own blog. Guest writing is as important to us as it is to you.

Write for us

Note: Due to the overwhelming number of users registering on our site with the the intention of spamming, we regret to advise that we’ve now eliminated the self-registration facility. If you wish to genuinely guest write for us please email me with your name and email address along with a short bio so that I can set you up for guest posting.

So why should you consider guest writing for us?

You will receive the unique opportunity to share your insights and knowledge with us in retail, giving you the chance to stamp your point of authority with out readers. Guest writing is a powerful way to drive traffic to your own blog, but not just any old traffic, writing for us will give you targeted traffic, readers that come here look for the very best in what we have to offer.

Here are some of the reasons why over 50 guest writers write for us, and why you should consider guest writing for us too, and what we have to offer in return:

  • Over 15,000 visitors each month generating over 25,000 page views and growing…
  • We are a do-follow blog and damn proud of it!
  • We have a Google Pagerank of 2
  • We provide you with 2 do-follow links back to any site you wish in your author box.
  • We frequently promote posts via email, RSS and social media channels (10,000 + subscribers and growing)
  • Our Alexa traffic ranking is 157K and improving on a daily basis

If you would like to apply to become a guest blogger at Retail Guru simply register using the method outlined above. We will then email you an email confirmation link where your account will immediately be upgraded to a contributor level access, so there is no waiting around.

We guarantee that your posts will be published on our blog if you abide to the following:

Guest Post Guidelines

Note: Please ensure that you fill in the author bio box and use a valid Gravatar. We like to see the faces behind the posts, if your Gravatar is left blank your posts will simply not be published.

1. You must submit unique and original content that you have written yourself. Under no circumstance will we publish copied, reproduced, rewritten, duplicated, PLR content on our blog. We keep a keen eye out for SEO companies doing this in particular.

2. Your posts must be of 300 or more words to be approved. Posts under 300 words long will simply be rejected.

3. All levels of English writing abilities welcome, as we do proof read and correct any grammatical or spelling errors we may find from time to time. We aim to help you as a blogger and help your posts achieve a high flesche reading score.

4. Please write with our readers interests in mind and not for the search engines.

5. We kindly ask that you don’t add your own contextual ads or affiliate links in your post content, or in your profile author box. You’re welcome to add a maximum of 2 resourceful links within your post on our blog, we have over 800 posts to choose from. Please try and refrain from dropping links to unrelated sites, as these will be removed.

6. If you’re adding images please ensure that they are not uploaded to our directory. You’re welcome to use photo’s that use Creative Commons from Flickr. Should you need to use images to back up your content then please email them to me manually but ensure that they do not exceed 500 x 500 pixels. We also recommend using PNG as apposed to JPEG for better image quality. Use iaza.com to convert your JPEG’s to PNG’s should you need to.

Violation of our terms and conditions will result in your author account being downgraded or even suspended and your posts removed from our blog. Apart from this we welcome you to Retail Guru!!