Guest Blogger Agreement

All Guest Posts must comply with the following criteria:

1. Guest Posts must be your own original work. Submitted content must not have been published on any other website, social media network, chat, or forum.
2. You are solely responsible for ensuring that submission of content to BALANCED LIFE WITH LIA does not conflict with any copyright or publication rights already granted to other publishers, and BALANCED LIFE WITH LIA is not responsible for any infringement of external publication rights.
3. All quotations from other authors or publications must be properly cited. Posts will acknowledge your authorship but will be the property of BALANCED LIFE WITH LIA.
4. Once the post has been submitted to BALANCED LIFE WITH LIA, you may only publish it on your own personal portfolio website, via your own personal link that is shared with BALANCED LIFE WITH LIA prior, and each article includes the reference and link back to the original post on BALANCED LIFE WITH LIA
5. If we use your guest post, you may promote it on your own social media forums. Promoting the content does not give you permission to post the entire article on these forums. You may include a link to your guest post and a short sentence or two explaining what the article is about.
6. All Guests Post must follow the BALANCED LIFE WITH LIA Technical Guidelines.
   • Guest post submissions should be submitted in a Word format. The final length of the guest post shall be determined solely by BALANCED LIFE WITH LIA.
   • Source links should be completely listed as endnotes and not linked within the document.
   • You must supply a title for the guest post, which may be edited by BALANCED LIFE WITH LIA in its sole discretion.
   • You must provide your full name, physical address, phone number, email address, and links to your website, blog, and/or social media platforms at the time of submitting your post.
   • Photo/video submissions are permitted. Please send all media as separate attachments when submitting your post. For information regarding digital media within posts, please see section 10
   • The Guest Post writers affiliate links are not to be included in guest post submissions.
   • BALANCED LIFE WITH LIA reserves the right to add its own affiliate links where appropriate.
7. Guest Post writers will receive written credit as author of their post at the beginning of the article. Guest Post writers may submit a short bio statement (no more than 50 words) that may or may not be used at the end of the article. A photo may be submitted for bio use that may or may not be used.
8. Guest Post writers will be permitted to have up to 3 links within their author bio at the end of the guest post. The guest writer’s personal website, blog or social media accounts are acceptable links. Affiliate links or links that direct readers to an affiliate site will not be permitted. BALANCED LIFE WITH LIA Reserves the right to remove the authors links within BALANCED LIFE WITH LIA Sole Discretion.
9. BALANCED LIFE WITH LIA does not pay for Guest Post submissions or publications. If you decide to submit a post to BALANCED LIFE WITH LIA, you do so with the knowledge that you shall not be entitled to any compensation for writing the post or for any other compensation related to the post.
10. BALANCED LIFE WITH LIA welcomes images and/or video to accompany your guest post as long as they meet the following requirements
    • The Guest Post writer must be the copyright holder of the image/video OR the image/video must be licensed under an appropriate creative commons license or in the public domain. Proof must be submitted along with any image/video showing that it does not infringe on copyright laws.
    • BALANCED LIFE WITH LIA reserves the right to change/edit the image/video if necessary.
    • If people are included in the image/video, then the Guest Post writer must provide a written release allowing use of image/video.
    • Video/image submissions must be relevant to the post.
    • BALANCED LIFE WITH LIA reserves the right to deny or remove any image/video it deems inappropriate or contrary to the values of the BALANCED LIFE WITH LIA company and brand.
11. BALANCED LIFE WITH LIA will share and promote the Guest Post on a variety of social media networks, but does not guarantee any particular site or audience reach.
12. Links to any third-party site must be relevant to the topic and approved by BALANCED LIFE WITH LIA
13. All search engine optimization (“SEO”) information, such as anchor text or alt tags, will be reviewed and subject to inclusion at the discretion of BALANCED LIFE WITH LIA.
14. Excessive links or links that appear to be affiliated or spam related will be removed at the discretion of BALANCED LIFE WITH LIA.
15. All Guest Posts are reviewed and approved by BALANCED LIFE WITH LIA prior to posting.
16. BALANCED LIFE WITH LIA reserves the right to edit Guest Posts where necessary.
17. BALANCED LIFE WITH LIA reserves the right to refuse publication of remove a Guest post without prior notice to the Guest Post writer.
18. By providing a Guest Post to BALANCED LIFE WITH LIA, you agree that you are in no way becoming a part of the website or company, nor shall you hold yourself out to be a member of the BALANCED LIFE WITH LIA website or company.
19. If a Guest Post submission is inappropriate or needs improvements, a BALANCED LIFE WITH LIA representative will let you know and offer suggestions so that it may be published at a later time. BALANCED LIFE WITH LIA will review your submissions in a timely manner. BALANCED LIFE WITH LIA reserves the right to refuse publication of any Guest Post.