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Want to add something to this website? Write a guest post on the Pacific Northwest? Travel? Photography? Something else? You've reached the right place to do it.

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We’re in the process of editing this page…please bear with us!

Do you have something you want to say about: the Pacific Northwest? Travel? Cycling? Outdoor activities? Photography? Or even review a book?

Yes, we do accept guest posts on this website. And you’ve found the page to submit one!

Submit a Post Form

Please note that you need to register and log in before you can submit a post. Please also take time to review the information below the form before you submit your first post.

Because we’ve limited post submissions to logged-in users, this page would redirect to the homepage if we had the form directly on the website.

To view the form, you can either access it from your member profile, this page, (which will redirect you to the homepage unless you’re logged in) or click on the button below when you’re logged in as a member. It will open in a popup and the form in the popup will not be visible unless you are logged in.

Write My Post

Please note that the “group” dropdown on the form is only if you are a member of a group on this website and want to submit the post to that group. If not, just don’t enter anything.

If you cannot place an image in the post body, just use the image upload feature and designate in the body text where the image should go and we’ll format it.

Submit a guest post travel, write for us about the Pacific Northwest…or lifestyle, book reviews, nature, or photography

What do we accept content on? We’ll consider a broad range of content, but here’s the “bread and butter” of this blog:

Submit a guest post travel

We started as a travel blog…but lately we’ve been more interested in writing about the PNW. Still, we accept posts on travel from travel tips to products, to the usual travel blog fare of what to do in different locations.

Write for us about the Pacific Northwest

We love posts about the PNW! Write about your favorite local restaurant, or your opinion of the term, “Seattle Freeze,” or your favorite towns in the Kitsap Peninsula (wait, that’s on our roster!), or your memories of growing up in some part of the PNW in years past. You get the idea. We love posts about local places, things to do, etc.

Submit a guest post lifestyle

Lifestyle blog? Well, I guess we are. We’re likely going to add recipes back in at some point. But we’d like recipes in the format that they imply they have some connection to travel or place, to the PNW, or to a healthy activity like cycling. If you have a great post that’s outside of the main focus of this website, me MAY consider it in our off-topic section, but we generally limit posts that are outside of the main topics of this website.

Submit blog post about photography

We love photography. Ironically, our love for making a blog sometimes prevents us from getting out every day with our camera! We do accept posts on photography: tips, reviews of software (we have an upcoming post…sometime…about the various gallery plugins we’ve tried) or photography products.

Write for us about nature and wildlife with a PNW focus

We like posts about local nature and wildlife in the PNW. Depending on the type and style of the content, we may change it to a PNWWiki entry.

Writers Guidelines and Frequently Asked Questions

  • Writers’ Guidelines and Event Submissions
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    Thank you for your interest in guest posting on this website. You can view our guest posting form here and also access this FAQ from that page. If you want to submit an event, there’s a different form for that, which you can access here.

    Who can submit content?

    Anyone can submit content to this website, but you must first register and log in before submitting content, with the exception of community event submissions, which may be submitted without logging in.

    However, if you log in before contributing an event, you’ll have access to it for future editing.

    What types of content do you accept?

    Our preferred subjects are about to the Pacific Northwest US — places, people, things to do, places to stay, etc as well as travel. We also love posts about travel photography, outdoor activities and gear. We’ll also allow creation of new polls or trivia quizzes to suppement posts.

    We also have an events calendar and accept PNW events from community contributors.

    We are not scary (at least we don’t think we are) and would welcome even short posts that are written in readable English on topics from opinions about Seattle from those who’ve just visited to fun stuff you did on your last vacation.

    HOWEVER, we will not accept posts that require extensive editing on our. part and..we’re not sure how to put this, language that seems excessively cloying or promotional (i..e. a post which repeatedly said a certain place would “produce smiles.”) or posts about things that seem suspicious to us (i.e. a place that “helps” you get a faster passport).

    We do not accept content that is obviously AI written. We prefer human-generated content. The exeption of this is in our “PNWWiki” glossary section where we often write part of it ourselves (or by you if you’re a guest author) but stick in a section that is AI contributed just to supplement, or where we use AI to supplement some of our meta tags for SEO. Any AI content should be disclosed as such.

    Events submitted by community contributors must either take place or be organized in or about the PNW OR be online and on topics pertaining to travel, photography, the outdoors, etc. As an example, we might publish an online event hosted in London about bird photography, but do not publish an online event hosted in London that’s about digital marketing.

    You MUST have the authority to use your content. If it’s a repost from somewhere else, please provide the link of the original post. If your images are not your own, please use appropriate credit. For instance, you don’t need to credit images from free services like Pexels or Unsplash, but if you use an image from Flickr make sure it’s available under a creative commons license and make the appropriate credit.

    Do you pay for guest posts?

    Currently, we do not pay for guest posts and do not plan to in the forseeable future unless we specifically hire someone to write a guest posts. Currently, we are not hiring though; please do not inquire about it.

    What do I get for guest posting?

    You get to share something you found wonderful with readers. You get a guest post with your name on it out there. Link building? Maybe. We do allow for SOME dofollow links in guest posts, but it really depends on what the link is to. Does it complement your content and belong there? Then we allow for it. Is it a sponsored link or affiliate link, then it will be tagged as such.

    Most social links in your profile will be nofollow. However, there is one link that is dofollow and that is the link in the header of your profile, which readers may visit by following a link from the author box in your post.

    Do I need to pay to post? Is it free?

    Guest posting and event listing on this website is free of charge UNLESS it is a sponsored post promoting product or business. If so, we encourage you to view our sponsored posts FAQ.

    How will I know if my post was accepted?

    You should get an automated email when you’ve successfully submitted your post. If we have any questions, we’ll contact you via email to ask them. Otherwise, you’ll get another automated email when your post is published or declined. Please make sure that you’ve allowed emails from hello@pnwbeyond.com so they don’t go to your spam box.

    If you’re an event contributor, you’ll just get an email when your event is published.

    I want to propose the following topics for your blog…

    We do not respond to emails with a list of proposed topics. If you would like to submit a post to this website, please use the appropriate form to submit your post and we’ll review it. The exception would be with sponsored posts. We do need to arrange that in advance.

    Will there be ads on my post?

    As you can see, we do use contextual advertising on this website. We run a blog because we like to, but it does cost money. We run ads in hope that our blog income will outweigh the expenditures. We show ads on most content on this website. We do try to keep ads off of sponsored posts, but sometimes auto-ads have a way of sneaking back in even when we try to exclude them.

    Will I be given author credit?

    Of course! For events your contact information will be listed under organizer info. If you submit the event as a logged -in user, there will be a box with your profile under it as well.

    For posts, you’ll be given author credit and it will link to a profile page on our website which you can customize as you wish and add links to your own website and social media. There will also be an author box on primary posts with your info and social links.

    Will you promote my post on social media or in your newsletter?

    We likely will, but we do not guarantee it. We auto-post most content to Facebook, X, and Instagram. We are revising Pinterest and will likely add a pin with your post. With events, we are setting up auto posts to Facebook and X but do not publish every event to Instagram.

    We do have some subscribers to a newsletter. It depends on the content area of your post whether it gets posted to a newsletter. Many events will end up in a monthly newsletter which gets generated from upcoming events.

    …and a few other things

    By contributing a post, you’re acknowledging the above guidelines, that you have rights to the content, and that we can choose to remove content if we see fit.

    Generally, posts will remain for the life of this blog…or at least as long as I own it. Who knows, there may be a time I no longer can do this but someone else may take it up and in that case, they may have a different policy for content! Events will be removed after they are finished unless it is an event that happens year after year that we plan to update ourselves. We have the right, however, to refuse to publish any content and the right to remove it at our discretion.

    Thanks for your interest!

    PNW & Beyond/PNW.FUN

  • Sponsored Posts
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    Yes, we do accept some sponsored posts and content. If you wish to submit a guest post but your post is overtlt promoting a product, business, or service, we considered that sponsored and ask for payment.

    What are sponsored posts?

    A sponsored post is one that is promoting a brand. If you want to submit a recipe, write your thoughts about visiting Seattle, or whatnot, that’s free.

    But if you’re a brand or business and are promoting that, it is a sponsored post.

    It is considered best practice to tag sponsored and paid links with rel=”sponsored,” so this is what we do with promotional links.

    You do get a link in your profile header. We are working to try to get that made into an actual, clickable link that is followed and will change that when we succeed.

    Will my post be labeled as sponsored content?

    In keeping with best practices, we will disclose your post as being sponsored in the early part of the post. We’ll likely add something such as “this was sponsored by” or “this is a sponsored post which means…”

    Will PNW & Beyond write something for me?

    We cannot give you a definitive answer on this as it is situational. From time to time we get invited to various media previews and if it’s something we want to attend and have time for and doesn’t cost us a great deal to get to, we will choose to do that at no charge. It depends on the event.

    Same goes for reviewing a product. If it’s something we’re into, like bike computers, we might want to review it.

    Writing a post, however, actually takes quite a bit of time especially if you consider photography, SEO, etc.

    If you are interested in us writing sponsored content for you, please contact us.

    Will there be ads on my post?

    We do not feel there should be ads on sponsored posts. We do use auto-ads for contextual advertising and have set up sponsored URLS to be blocked from such ads. However, we’ve found that they can sometimes sneak in there. So we can say that we will attempt to limit such ads as much as is possible.

    How much does a sponsored post cost?

    We may vary the price of a sponsored post. Currently, our asking rate is $60.00 but the form below allows for various payment structures depending on the post, so the payment form below reflects a pay-what you will structure. We may change the “recommended” price from time to time depending on our website traffic, but if we publish a post at a certain rate, we won’t ask you for more in the future — but subsequent posts may be at a different rate.

    The “recommended” value here is for sponsored posts that you submit. Anything else, and you shoud inquire in advance.

    Sponsored Post

    Suggested price: $60.00 $60.00

    This is the payment form for a sponsored post on our website. You can enter the agreed-upon amount for the sponsored post and then submit it. We’ll contact you before publication.

    How long will my sponsored post be on your website?

    Once we publish a sponsored post, it generally will be on our website "for the life of this blog." Which means that, in the future, if we need to stop writing this blog or if it changes hands the post will be taken down as then it will be out of our control. But unless there is some extenuating reason (such as excessively negative feedback for a particular post) we'll leave it up for the life of this blog.

    Do you offer refunds for sponsored content?

    If, for some reason, your post is up for less than a year, we'll do a partial refund prorated for the time it was "live" on the website. Otherwise, we do not do refunds for sponsored content and do not guarantee any particular amount of traffic or promotion. We'll generally share our sponsored post on our social media channels.

    Thanks!

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  • Will you add a link to my blog in your existing article?
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    From time to time, we get asked if “will you add a link to my blog” into an existing article, so we added this FAQ on the subject.

    In most cases, the answer is “no.” While we don’t want to sound mean, about 90% of such requests offer a link that really has nothing to do with the article at hand or in which the page the link goes to is pretty content-free.

    For instance, we received a request to link to a page that had nothing more than an address for a popular tourist location and a photo of it!

    Before you ask us to add a link into our page, please consider whether your link is applicable to the topic of the page, and whether it adds any value to readers of that page.

    Also consider this: will you link back to us?

    One place where we more often will consider adding links is to our PNWWiki pages in which we have a “related resources” section. If your link is to a page that is directly about the topic at hand, we’ll be more likely to consider placing it there than in an existing main post.

    We generally do not consider paid link placements and if we ever did, we’d disclose it, and add rel=”sponsored to it in keeping with best SEO practices.

    If you want to get a link on our site, perhaps you could consider adding a guest post on one of the topics we like to cover.

    Thanks for your understanding!

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Submitting Other Types of Content

The form above is only for main post types. If you're wondering if this is the form to use, please read on:

Submitting Events

We do accept event listings for PNW-located events or online events that are about nature, photography, travel, or the PNW, and you can submit one as a guest. But not with this form! Please use the form on our Submit an Event page to do so.

Submitting a Book Review

We are still accepting book reviews, but have disabled our book review-specific form as it was a source of spam. If your post is a book review, please choose the appropriate category AND add the following information to the body of your post:

  • The ISBN of the book
  • The author name
  • Your review stars (1-5)

And if we can publish your review, we'll format that information for you.

Submitting a PNWWiki Entry

If your post is a blurb about a specific piece of local art, a town, a type of bird -- something informational, and well...wikiesque, you can submit it to our PNWWiki section. Please use the above form and put PNWWiki at the top of your post body.

We will move your post to the PNWWiki post type and choose and appropriate category for it. Please be aware that, as it is a custom type of post, it may not appear in your "member blog" section in your profile.

Be aware that for glossary entries like this, we may add an adjuct Wikipedia article on to supplement it, and we may edit it or add to it ourselves in the future or let users suggest edits or additions.

Submitting a Route or a Map Location

Adding a route is a different form from the one above. You can access it here.

If you want to add a single map location you can do that with this form.

If you want to write a post and then ADD that route or map location to your post, please add the map using that form, first. Then you can add a photo of the map with a link to the map or route page in your post. We do this to avoid excessive loading of Google maps for people who don't need them -- both to save $$ and to help with page speed. If you want to get started with your post but we haven't approved your route or map yet, you can add something like ADD MAP HERE in the body of your post.

Submitting a Recipe

We've been getting the urge to occasionally publish a recipe on this website -- for a long time we've been thinking about putting some PNW-oriented recipes here, again, or healthy recipes for getting our energy up for cycling and hiking like, well, granola? Or smoothies?

If you want to submit a recipe, please use the form above and add the following to your post content for us to format:

  • Ingredients (of course)
  • Step by step directions
  • Image(s) of the recipe -- images or videos to go with the steps are helpful
  • If any of the ingredients are unusual or hard to obtain, please add a helpful link or where you can find the item. Or more information about what it is.

Submitting a Product Review

If your post is a product review, please let us know the areas it should be rated in and your review stars (1-5) for each. Be careful. Is it YOUR product that your reviewing? In this case, we need to do a couple things: first, disclose that it's your product and then consider whether this is a sponsored post (see the FAQ section above).

Adding a Poll

If you would like to add a poll to your post, you can do so. When you're logged in, go to your member profile and click on the "More" tab. From there choose "Create sitewide poll." Create your poll and then in your post add a notation that you want to add the poll and which poll it is. We will also likely make a separate post JUST for your poll with you as the author so you may get duplicate post notifications. If you just create a new poll that we approve and do not add it it a post, we'll likely also create a post for it...so you might get notifications about that.

Please note that a sitewide poll is different than the polls you find on your profile activity.

Adding a Trivia Quiz

If you would like to add a trivia quiz to your post -- or add a trivia quiz in general, you can access the form to create one from your profile. Go to the More tab in your profile and choose Create Trivia Quiz from the dropdown. We do moderate trivia quizzes. If you want your quiz added to another post, please put that in the body of your post using the form above. If we approve a trivia quiz and you have not created a post for it, we will likely do so with you as the author and you'll get an email notification of that.

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