The content you create should be written with the intention of helping the reader learn new things and solve the problems they're having. GURU Solutions (GS) does not want content that is confusing or difficult. We want content that is useful for the average reader.
General Payment Matrix:
$0.03 per word
$0.15 per quote
$8.00 per data chart (Pre Approval Required)
$5.00 per infographic (Pre Approval Required)
$0.10 per non-authentic images
$0.50 per authentic image
$0.05 per other files
$1.00 per minute of a video (Pre Approval Required)
Penalty Matrix:
Documents requiring 3 edits do not meet High-Quality Payment standards and be compensated at the Quality Payment rate. Documents requiring 4 or more edits will be compensated base on time spent to review/fix on our end.
Documents that do not follow the topic assigned will not be accepted.
Any item that is not formatted correctly after one edit will be rejected.
Any content that is not in-depth enough to be considered useful by a layman will be rejected.
Any item not put in the CMS and formatted correctly-with media-will be rejected.
Authentic Content
Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness by doing and living the content you are writing about in first person view of the topic.
YMYL is a methodology we use here (Y = Your, M = Money, Y = Your, L = Life) Which mean you are producing content that you make your life about.
Answer Target
An answer target is required to be the very first paragraph to give a direct answer to a the question and then follow it up with sub header that support why that answer target is correct.
Target Audience
The content being written is meant to consumed by a person of average literacy with little computer experience.
Topic
Topics should be enough to write about in-depth but shouldn’t bleed into other areas. Headings must follow logically and easy to understand.
The finished document should successfully and thoroughly answer the question asked in the topic.
Title
Do not include dates or other factors that may change over time. (Once a title is set the URL is set too.)
When creating a title, it is important to know that the title will become the alias for the article and cannot be changed. If a modification is needed to the URL of that article you will need to contact the administrator.
Author
The way your name is displayed on your published articles is directly linked to your profile (first and last name) on the site.
The name of the site owner will appear before yours for all articles or maybe ghost written.
We reserve the right to Ghostwrite any article for whatever reason we demean reasonable.
Creation Date
The date it was created in our CMS
Published Date
The date it was published in our CMS
Context
Each position declared must be fully supported and exemplified through documented experience, research findings, charts, tables, etc.
Document situations in which the solution does and does not work if applicable.
Format
Elements
Title: (and Headings) follow Title Case as defined by APA.
Introduction: this is the unlabeled introductory paragraph that will begin your document and directly address the question being asked.
Body: include a logical flow of ideas organized by headings and detailed paragraphs of at least three sentences in length.
Conclusion/Summary: concisely address the primary points of the post and how they are supported.
References: list all references (at least 4) at the bottom of the document
Headers, Sub-Headers, context, and data chart information formatted correctly.
A summary to directly answer the question goes in the “Short Snippet Teaser (250 Char Max)” area of the CMS.
Sub Header and Subtopic should be next dividing the post up into sections using the related results at the bottom of a google search page.
Length
Word count is established using Microsoft Word. Title, References, and image/media captions are not included in the word count. Any content over the Maximum will not be paid for.
POST TYPE
MINIMUM WORDS
MAXIUM WORDS
IMAGES
Response
1300
1500
3 Max
Staple
2200
2400
5 Max
Pillar
4000
4200
8 Max
Content Inflation
Documents should be succinct and clear. Excessively wordy writing containing padding and filler words offering no value to the content will not be accepted.
Media
All images must be authentic and original. The reader should feel that you yourself have dealt with or had learned/understand the topic you are writing about.
Additional compensation will be given per image.
The first media must be above the fold. (Above the area where the screen cuts off on Desktop/Tablet/Mobile)
Videos cannot be more than 9 minutes long. If your video is longer you will need to add a topic heading and break the video down into subsections in lengths that can be
A one-paragraph clearly stating the answer to the question given in the topic. “Short Snippet Teaser (250 Char Max)”
Keyword/Tag
At least 5 tags that describe the content for search engine optimization. Each word must be separated by a comma ",".
Refences
Article back links must be include with in the article content as a link to authoritativenesssource like government site or cdc etc.
Attention Getter
Images
Infographic
Charts & Stats
Video
Quotes
Highlights text
Boxed In text
General Interest Information that help the viewer
Spell/Grammar Check
Grammar and spelling checks must be completed according to American English standards.
Search Engine
Meta Data: this is automatically generated.
Internal Link Content: Look at listed articles on GS and compare your topic to similar ones already on the website. Note in your document locations in which it can be linked to another document. This will add both authority and clarification.
External Linked Content: any external references you are using to create your content should be linked back to where applicable in your content.
Plagiarism Check
All documents will be evaluated by Unicheck before final approval.
If you are even slightly concerned that what you have written, while not verbatim, maybe too similar to something written by another author, ask your editor.
The theft of another writer’s intellectual property is completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated.