Article Submission Guidelines

So you’re inter­ested in writ­ing for Travel-Junkie! Great!!

There really isn’t much to it. You should be able to write well and/or take great pic­tures. Basic­ally there are two types of posts we are look­ing for.

Full Art­icle

This is your nor­mal blog post, mixed text and images. There are many travel blogs out there that bring a var­ied mix of art­icles. You can find any­thing from ‘The Top Ten Tips To Travel Light’ to ‘A Small Guide To Spir­itu­al­ity In India’. Obvi­ously these kinds of posts do have their place in the blo­go­sphere, but it’s not really what we’re look­ing for. We like to pub­lish stuff that we’d like to read and exper­i­ence ourselves. So some­thing like ‘Cross­ing The Kyber Pass Into Afgh­anistan’ or ‘North Korean Travel Exper­i­ences’ would be right up our alley. Say­ing this, we won’t say no to a well writ­ten, funny or pro­vok­ing art­icle that falls into the above men­tioned cat­egor­ies. You can always try and pitch us your idea as well. At the moment we pay EUR 10 via PayPal for any pub­lished art­icle includ­ing images. The length should not exceed 1200 words.

Image Post

This is exactly what it says. One image and a short para­graph or two about it. The image should show some­thing unique. So rather than an image of a beach, one show­ing a per­son would have bet­ter chances. The going rate for an image post is EUR 3 at the moment. The word count should be between 30 and 100.

Form­at­ing Guide

Obvi­ously, all posts need to be form­ated prop­erly. This mainly means to put para­graphs in between <p></p> tags. For head­ings you should use <h2></h2>,<h3></h3> and <h4></h4> tags. To emphas­ize cer­tain points you can also use the <strong></strong> tags.

If you link to other art­icles or other sites, then use this tag <a href=“THE LINK HERE” title=“A SHORT DESCRIPTION HERE”></a>. Images should be denoted with [NAME-OF-IMAGE.jpg].

All lists need to be wrapped in their respect­ive tags, so this means <ul></ul> for unordered lists and <ol></ol> for ordered lists. In both cases, the list points need to be enclosed in <li></li> tags. These are prob­ably the most com­mon tags you’ll use. There are lots of HTML tutori­als around and you can basic­ally use any cur­rent HTML tags. For read­ab­il­ity please leave empty lines in between paragraphs.

Pay­ment

Now we come to the juicy details. We always pay on the 5th of the fol­low­ing month (EUR 10 for an art­icle includ­ing images and EUR 3 for an image post). Here the import­ant date is the pub­lish­ing date, not the sub­mis­sion date. Some­times we will keep art­icles back, even though they have been approved already. This mainly hap­pens when too many art­icles are in the works already.

At the moment we can only use PayPal, so you will need to have an account there to accept pay­ment. We don’t do checks, cash or money trans­fers. Later we might accept other pay­ment options, but for now it’s only PayPal.

Leg­al­it­ies

By sub­mit­ting any type of con­tent to Travel-Junkie you declare that you hold the copy­right to all images and text. You also con­sent that you will not pub­lish the sub­mit­ted con­tent any place else. Your copy­right is in no way affected by this. Should we find you in viol­a­tion of these rules, then we will sus­pend your account on Travel-Junkie. If you are in any way con­cerned about how you can use our con­tent, then please con­tact us.

So, that’s it! Enjoy!