When submitting your articles to ArticleCube, the following guidelines must be followed:

1. Content
• The articles that you submit must be your own work
  You may not submit articles written by other authors and the content must be original. Articles written by a ghost writer are perfectly acceptable as long as they are being used only by yourself.
• The articles that you submit must be useful and valuable to the reader
  The articles must be high quality and original content.
• Keyword stuffed articles are not allowed.
  Keep your keyword count in the article body around 4-6 per article (1 kw/100 words is recommended). Write your articles for humans and not for search engines.
• The articles must not contain any advertising
  This means no press releases, ads, sales copy, self promotion and article spamming.
• Articles must be spellchecked and proofread for grammatical errors prior to submission
  Do not submit articles filled with spelling errors and bad grammar. We monitor all new submissions.
• Articles that contain the following content are not allowed:
  No articles about pornography, hate, violence, racial, advocate against any individual or group, hacking, weapons, guns, alcohol, drugs, tobacco-related, steroids, escort services, sex toys, illegal, replica products, selling term-papers or essays to college students, online pharmacies, viagra, diet pills, weight loss pills, penis enlargement
• Don't post derivative content
  Rewriting an article in multiple versions is not allowed. Your account will be deleted immediately.
• No live self serving links in title, body or summary allowed
  Only use the author box for live links back to your websites.
• No affiliate links allowed
  No affiliate links allowed in your author box. Your own domain that redirects back to your affiliate link is allowed. Don't use url shortening services to mask or redirect your affiliate link.
• Articles must be in the English language.
  We only accept English articles at this time as we do not have the resources to accept articles in other languages.
• NO location stuffed articles
  We don't accept articles about local businesses (ex:Limos Toronto, Plumbers Denver, cleaners Manchester).
2. Format
• Article Title
  
1. The first letter of the words of the title must only be capitalized.
2. No urls, email addresses, author names allowed in the title
3. No html tags allowed in the title
• Article Summary
  
1. Summary must contain a minimum of 2 sentences.
2. no urls, email addresses or author names allowed in the summary
3. Don't repeat the title in summary
• Article Body
  
1. Must have a minimum of 400 words.Driving the word count up by using duplicate paragraphs/sentences will get your IP/urls/accounts deleted and banned from our directory.
2. tags allowed in body p, b, i, u, strong, ol, ul, li
3. tags not allowed in body h1, h2, h3, hr, font, color, javascript, a href, table, span, tr, td
4. must not contain hard line breaks on every line of the article. Is allowed only with a small list of items.
5. NEW: must be formatted with paragraphs to make it easier to read. Use white space between paragraphs. A block of text will be declined
6. self-serving links not allowed in body
7. NEW: live links to high authority sites allowed (Wikipedia, Nytimes...). Linking to authoritive sources can help your article visibility.
8. no email addresses, author names or contact info allowed in the body
9. don't repeat title in body
• Article Box
1. maximum of 3 live links allowed
2. a href tag is allowed for linking and anchor text (use our WYSIWYG editor to make your link)
3. tags allowed in author box: p, b, i, u, strong, ol, ul, li
4. tags not allowed in author box: h1, h2, h3, hr, font, color, javascript, span, table, tr, td
5. outgoing links must be related to the content of the article, example: an article about golf must link to golf related content!