What are AltGlobe's guidelines for blog posts?

If you are writing your blogs in order to promote a business, which is not owned by you, your place is not with us. (just tired of "sophisticated" spammers!) If you wish to establish a personal journal and/or syndicate your existing one to your AltGlobe blog, keep on reading our general guidelines:

Original materials - All blogs posted to AltGlobe ("AG") should be original, unique materials written by the blogger who submits them to the website. (Learn more about adding content to AltGlobe on our Terms of Use page).

Complete articles (Blog Posts) - Only complete articles will be accepted. Nevertheless, feeds from Bloggers' external blogs will appear in some places only as teasers or lists with links to the original article.

Who can blog on AltGlobe? - Everyone can blog on AltGlobe! It does not matter if you are an experienced blogger or a newbie that is about to start with his or her first blog post ever. Everyone is a teacher and everyone is a student here, therefore the possibilities to grow your audience, relationships and knowledge are endless.

Your blog content - Share with us your knowledge, ideas, thoughts, feelings, and experiences from life and enrich us with your positive solutions for them (if you have any). Our bloggers talk about all aspects of life from home and garden to health, well being, education, food, and many more categories.

The uniqueness of AltGlobe bloggers is that they all write about the positive aspects of the above issues. For example, popular topics on AG include Organic Gardening, Green Living, Sustainable Products, etc.

Only post things that you wish to share with the rest of the world on AltGlobe. After submitting your blog (or feed), its content will be available to many people who are part of our network. See below for more info about "spreading your word."

No external advertisements on the body of your blogs, unless this is a feed blog (Feed Item), which you add on your own blog/website and the ads are not aggressive and not non-related to the subject. We are supporting bloggers who live from their blogs, but deserve the right to not feature blogs, nor have them appear on our front page, if the editor does not approve them.

Word editor use - You may use the rich text editor or HTML to add formatting to your blog such as headers, bullets and other features. As a blogger on AG you get a bigger selection of features that can help you with putting your blog together. This editor is pretty much like a Word document.

Spreading the word about your blog - As a member and a blogger of the AltGlobe community, your blog post will be available to all AltGlobe's website users and to the broader AltGlobe community on social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter and others. This will happen automatically once your blog is approved by our team. Nevertheless, if you want to draw more attention to your AltGlobe blog post, use the links at the bottom of your AltGlobe blog page to submit your post to any of the social networking sites. 

Supporting media in your blog post - If you use someone else's media to express your idea on your blog, make sure that you have the rights to do that, as described in our Terms of Use. If you do have the rights, properly cite the creator of the original work.

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