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 Please read the editorial guidelines carefully.
For registered companies, submitting an article will mean your news is instantly added to your selected page. A page where visitors are looking for information, advice and prices on products and services just like yours. Once registered, articles can be uploaded immediately. Every article is subsequently read by our editorial team, but only once the article has gone live. This instant submission onto relevant, targeted pages is very appealing and makes News etc a very flexible new tool for businesses and PR companies. But it also brings some responsibility for self regulation. These Editorial Guidelines are designed to help you produce the most relevant articles and to stop you falling foul of our editors. Breaking News: we are developing a User Rating system for all articles. This will allow the two million users that visit the etc network each month to rate every article they read. The most highly rated articles will be shown higher on the page.
 New ideas & applications Time critical information Short term offers Genuine news Guides and Advice Interesting research Product launches and range extensions Suggestions & ideas Innovation Above all, submissions must be clearly relevant to the content and the topic of the page and seek to enhance the user experience. It is rare that an article will be removed but we reserve the right to remove any article at anytime at our editors discretion. Persistent breaches of these guidelines will lead to accounts being suspended or closed without notice. All submissions must be legal, decent, honest and truthful and comply with our Terms & Conditions.
But there are benefits beyond those offered to users of the site. When you upload an image with your submission, we automatically include a thumbnail beside the title of your article when it is shown in the Latest News area of the page. In fact, if you don't have an image, your article will not qualify to be included in the Latest News section of the page. We also allow you to add some descriptive copy for your image. This copy is specifically to allow you to meet with Accessibility laws - it tells describes the picture to people who cannot see the image. A beneficial side effect of adding this copy is that it makes your article more appealing to the search engines. We submit all article pages to the major search engines as part of the submission process.
As well as benefiting the user and driving traffic to your website, it is generally accepted that inbound links can improve your search engine ranking. However, if we suspect that links are being used purely to drive traffic we reserve the right to remove the link without notice. Links must take a user directly to a relevant page on your site. If our editorial team feel that this is not the case, they may remove the link from your article. We reserve the right to remove a link at any time for any reason without notice. Web links are charged at a standard, nominal rate. In exceptional circumstances, we reserve the right to adjust the cost of links on pages and sites where we feel the link has a disproportionate benefit to the site being linked to. Any variation in our standard costs will be clearly flagged at the time you select a page for your article. Any variations in cost will be clearly shown at the time you are asked to confirm your submission.
Submissions are uploaded instantly for registered companies and listed in the following locations:
Please read the Terms & Conditions as well as the News etc Guidelines before submitting an article to News etc. |
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