Thank-you for your interesting in writing for Travel Notes.
Please read through the guidelines before submitting
material to us for possible publication.
You Must Own The Copyright To Anything You Submit To Us!
You will assign us digital rights to publish the work
on Travel-Write.com and Travel Notes™ multimedia, although the copyright remains with
you and you will be credited as the copyright owner.
We would prefer to publish original travel content on Travel
Notes™.
While first publication rights are preferred, they are not a
requirement for publication on Travel Notes™ multimedia.
If you have published your work elsewhere though, you must be sure
that you haven't sold the copyright to the material, or the multimedia rights to publish
it again online.
You may be a professional freelance writer or travel photographer,
with many publication credits to your portfolio, or you may just be starting out on the
road much travelled.
Either way, you'll be looking for more exposure on the Travel
Notes™ Online Guide to Travel and we will need a short biography to
accompany your work.
Photographs are uploadable from the submit article page.
We reserve the right to resize or crop images, to fit in with the page
layout, and a thumbnail may be generated to blend in with the full list of
writer profiles.
Roving Reporters
If you're on the road, or have just returned from your travels, you
can send us your updates for publication. Your work as a roving reporter for Travel
Notes™ will be valuable to travellers setting out on their own journey of discovery.
Country Correspondents
If you're not roving you can still help travellers with more
information about your country. No one knows a place better than the people who live
there.
Credible City-Guides
You really know the scene. Where to go, where to stay, and what to do.
Tell visitors more about the sights and how to make the most of their time when they're in
your town, or a place you know well and visit regularly.
Cyberspace Travellers
You travel the world at the click of a mouse and like telling people
about some of the best travel sites you come across. You believe that link lists are all
very well, but most of them are outdated and there's some real fresh ones the Online Guide
to Travel should include.
Travel Photographers
We're also looking for quality photographs of travel destinations. If
you've got stock shots that would appeal to the travel industry, or just have some
beautiful images to share with the world, you may showcase your work on the Online Guide
to Travel as well.
The style is yours.
We don't want to restrict you with dos and don'ts and would like to
encourage you to write with your own style, thus bringing people back to read more of your
work. Travel writing is as much about what happened to you as the options available to
others.
You're the writer, tell us what's on your mind and what you know.
You may have updates on places you've recently visited; you may like
to concentrate on a country or city; or you may like to write about a theme: Spas, Family
Travel, Budget Travel, whatever.
Keep it interesting.
We don't want to be too rigid and cramp your style. A good length to
keep people's interest might be 500-1,000 words but, as you're not being paid by the word,
there's no need to waffle; so keep it crisp and interesting.
If an article requires longer treatment, we're writing online and
hyperlinks are there to connect related content together.
Online readers also appreciate links to interesting websites and the
inclusion of images (if you own the copyright) can make your articles more visually
appealing.
We do have an upload image facility, in the submit article
area, but may need to crop or re-size the images you submit. We may also feel that
certain images don't really do the article justice and remove reference to them.
The user name you choose (no spaces) may be a screen name you're
already known by online, your real name, or the name of your subject matter.
This name can also be used to create a personal URL (to
your online profile) for use on business cards, letter headings to magazine
editors and even included in e-mail signatures.
The URL will look like:
http://Travel-Write.com/writers/yourusername.htm
While we're not in a position to pay for material outright, we do
think you should have the chance to earn something for your contribution, as well as
gaining a little more exposure for your travel writing.
Some other contributor websites have fallen by the wayside;
continually move the goalposts; pay a minimal amount for 'member reads' only; charge
people a fee to read the material and then distribute 'some' of the money between the
writers getting the reads; or, heaven forbid, take all the credit themselves.
If we're not paying outright for travel articles, the least we can
do is share the available advertising space with our writers.
Rather than try and work out reasonable advertising percentages (to be
divided between 'x amount of writers', submitting 'y amount of articles', that are read by
'z amount of visitors'), I think we've found a better business share proposal that
shouldn't be open to abuse.
Writers can run their own Leaderboard (728x90) or 468x60 advertising
campaigns; negotiating their own rates for said campaigns and keep 100% of the
revenue the campaign generates; for themselves.
Or they can use their banner campaign allowance to advertise
their own website, a friend's website or an affiliate program.
In order to sell your ad space, visit AdsToGo and click on
Sell Ad Space. Then select the Banner (468x60) or Leaderboard (728x90) as your ad format.
Once you have set yourself up you'll be able to set the rates you wish and add default
campaigns for when there are no paying ads to display.
You'll need to send us you Ads to Go id number for your ad space, with
your Travel-Write username, and we'll add it to the rotation.
Banners will be rotated across the Travel Notes Internet property,
seen by over 5,000 unique visitors a day.
If you want to use the Ads to Go 'Text Ad' format as well, we'll add
these to your articles and author profile; to give you a further income revenue
opportunity.
The banner ads will be rotated with other writers' ads and
in-house advertising.
For each new article you write, that gets accepted for publication,
we'll increase the weighting of your rotation; so that a writer with 4 new articles should
get double the advertising exposure of a writer who submits 2 new articles.
There is no cap on the number of banner impressions you'll receive, so
the more quality articles you write (and the more visitors we get to the site) the more
advertising exposure you'll get.
In the long run, you'll hopefully be making more money from your
articles than you would have if there was a flat fee paid for them.
We'll also add a 'Sponsor This Writer' link, to your articles, that
potential advertisers can click on to get your personal ad rates.
Note:
Advertising campaigns should be travel-related and suitable for a general audience.
While we encourage you to use your unique URL on business cards,
letter headings and e-mail signatures, please don't spam newsgroups to promote your
articles.
As Travel-Write.com is a part of TravelNotes.org - The Online Guide to
Travel, we'll link to the articles from our relevant destination pages.
The articles will therefore be searchable from every page on Travel
Notes™ and hopefully spidered by Google and other major search engines that crawl
TravelNotes.org on a regular basis.
New articles will also be featured in our mailing list and e-zine, and
added to the RSS Feeds.
If people like your work, you'll build up a loyal following and
they'll return for more; so be sure to contribute regularly.
Come on Board: Submit a Travel Article!
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