Guest Post Guidelines

Thank you for your interest in contributing to the Bookafy blog!

Our goal is to be a consistent resource for entrepreneurs, salespeople, marketers, and founders looking to leverage appointment booking and other sales tactics to grow their businesses.

To that end, we accept guest contributions from folks in the industries we support who have relevant experience that they’re willing to share. If that’s you, then read on to learn more about what we’re looking for.

Types of content we’re looking for

Case studies: your own experience leveraging appointment booking software to leverage your business. 

• A Challenge, A Failure, and a Monster Success Story

How-to guides: thorough, tactical guides explaining step-by-step how to execute a specific strategy or tactic

• Outbound Sales On Autopilot: How To Get From Lead to Deal with Maximum Automation
• 6 Secret Ninja Tricks for automating your business. 

Templates: examples and screenshots of the email copy, website or specific details related to a campaign you executed

• 16 Automations used in our business

Topics

Bookafy customers come from all different roles, industries, and company sizes. For that reason, we’re open to wide variety of topics. A few examples of some of the topics we’ve covered in the past:

• Sales team building and management
• Step-by-step guides on a specific sales tactic or strategy
• How to leverage appointment booking for a specific industry
• Stories of founders or startups using appointment booking and automation to grow
• Case studies on Bookafy customer successes

If you have an idea related to any of these topics, or another topic area you think is relevant, we are open to anything that helps our customers acquire more customers, clients, and relationships!

Bookafy General Guidelines

• Submit your pitch and wait to see if it is accepted before writing any content – we do not accept pre-written blog posts (unless agreed with a member of the Bookafy team otherwise).
• Please include the main keyword target along with search volume and keyword difficulty for any topics you pitch.
• If your pitch is approved, write 2,000+ words submitted in an editable Google Doc
• Non-promotional, i.e. no product, service, or demo mentions
• No syndicated, copied, or plagiarized content from your blog or someone else’s
• Please research the Bookafy blog to ensure the article topic isn’t already covered on it.
• Place any images and videos directly in the draft. Please do not send separately.

Bookafy Technical Guidelines

• We require one do-follow link back to Bookafy blog or home page from your site.
• 1 do-follow link to your site in the article to resources, blogs, educational content, etc. (no homepage, landing page, demo, or promotional content)
• All external links must have a DR of 65+ or a DA of 45+. Link will be removed if they do not fit the criteria.
• Your links must not contain a keyword that competes with existing content on the Bookafy blog. Links will be removed if not complied with.
• Please include at least 2 links to Bookafy content in your guest post.
• All links from external resources must be cited. If you include statistics or material sourced from a site other than your own (or your own site), they must be linked to the original content.
• Article must be centered around at least one target keyword. Bookafy reserves the right to decline any pitch that does not meet this requirement. (There are exceptions to this if the article is based purely on thought leadership/ personal experience/ results.)
• All content is cross-checked for plagiarism to ensure your writing is unique.
• Bookafy’s editorial team reserves the right to make final edits, which may include removing promotional content, removing competing links, rewording copy, and adding category CTA buttons and links.

Submission/Post Guidelines

When submitting a topic idea, please include:

• Your background/who you are
• One to three topic ideas
• A 1 – 3 sentence explanation of each topic
• Links to similar content that you’ve written before
• submit to [email protected] 

Due to the volume of guest post submissions we receive, if you don’t follow these instructions, we will not respond.

If your topic is a good fit for the blog, we’ll respond letting you know to get started.

When you’ve completed your first draft of the article, send it back in a Google doc, along with a 2 – 3 sentence byline and headshot. We’ll leave comments and feedback within the Google doc and work with you to edit the article and get it ready to publish.

We reserve the right to update your article in the future for accuracy and comprehensiveness, as well as add calls-to-action and links to other Bookafy content after it has been published.

Guest posts published on the Bookafy blog may not be published elsewhere.

We will not accept guest posts that:

• Cover topics we’ve already written about – please search the blog to make sure we have not covered your topic before
• Are poorly written (we reserve final editorial review standards)
• Are overly self-promotional, link too much to your content, or are effectively an attempt to sell your product

Thanks again for your interest in contributing to the Bookafy blog and good luck!