At Search Engine Land and Marketing Land, we offer a number of opportunities for industry members to share the benefit of their experience through contributed guest content on a wide variety of topics related to search & digital marketing.

Contributor Requirements

All contributors must provide a minimum of three contributed pieces for standalone Features and How To articles over the course of 3-6 months.

Contributors assigned to specific ongoing columns are expected to commit to writing monthly on that same topic for at least 6 to 12 months, and must meet deadlines consistently to maintain their assigned slot, or it may be assigned to another poster. Topic fatigue does happen, and on occasion, we will attempt to move columnists around to renew the creative juices.

Full disclosure of agency / client / partner relationships is required at all times, and our editors reserve the right to remove self-promotional content and links, as well as make significant edits to content and headlines.

All accepted contributors must agree to provide original content, with exclusive rights granted to Third Door Media for a period of TWO years.

If accepted as a contributor, you will receive writer guidelines and instructions, as well as a formal writer agreement to execute before any content is published on our properties.

Note: a red asterisk (*) indicates the field is required.

Basic Info & Background

*First Name:
*Last Name:
*Email:
*Website URL:
Blog URL:
*Twitter Profile URL:
*Short Bio: (300 characters max)

Representative Name:
Representative Email:

Tell us about your primary areas of expertise - please select up to 3 picks (one from each drop down below) for column topics. This will better help us evaluate the best match for your expected contributions.

*Expertise 1:
Expertise 2:
Expertise 3:

Submit Your Article Pitches

It's best that we know what topics you are most knowledgeable and passionate about, so that we know you have plenty to say to fulfill our minimum article requirements, or to sustain a monthly column in a single category.

Our audience appreciates highly actionable content which can be immediately applied to their own online marketing strategies. These types of articles are what we are mainly looking for:

Tactical Advice & Tips
How-Tos & Step-by-Step Guides
Case Studies

Thought-leadership pieces and high-level, strategic articles are also important to our readers, so we ask all contributors to submit a mix of both tactical and strategic articles.

Please provide a short summary of article ideas you'd most like to cover, keeping in mind the topics you selected above. (up to 500 characters for each idea, at least 3 are required)

*Article Idea #1:

*Article Idea #2:

*Article Idea #3:

Article Idea #4:

Article Idea #5:

Submit Writing Samples

We don't expect everyone to be an expert writer, since we have editors to help clean up your typos, common grammar errors and formatting, and we do provide personal feedback and tips to help you become a better writer. However, we do expect you to provide quality content and provide value to our readers by sharing your knowledge - so we'd like to see what you've written elsewhere first.

Please provide the URLs to three samples of your published writing:

*Sample 1 URL:
*Sample 2 URL:
*Sample 3 URL:

Additional Comments:

Unfortunately, due to the volume of contributor applications, you may not receive an immediate response. Do note all applications are kept on file and we may contact you in the future if we do not have an available slot for your contributions now.

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