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Free guest posts on search engine optimization (SEO) and go to market (GTM) work. A person reads every submission and replies within 7 days.

RankBoostLabs publishes practical writing from people who do this work every day: marketers, founders, consultants, and the sales and operations people who keep pipelines running. If you ran the test, built the process or made the mistake, we want to read how it went.

Publishing here is free, and it will stay free. We don’t sell placements, sponsored posts or links, so there is no paid version of this page.

What we want to publish

The best posts start from something you did. A site migration. A launch. A pricing change. An outbound sequence that failed, and the version that finally worked. Tell the reader what you tried, what happened, and what you would do differently.

Search

  • Technical SEO: crawling and indexing problems, site migrations, internal linking, page speed, structured data
  • Visibility in artificial intelligence (AI) search: how answer engines choose their sources, tracking when your pages get cited, writing pages around the questions buyers actually ask
  • Link building ethics: earning links without paying for them, outreach that respects an editor’s time, cleaning up a bad link profile
  • Content strategy: picking topics from sales calls and support tickets, refreshing old pages, pruning, writing briefs a writer can use
  • Analytics: tracking you can trust, the limits of attribution, reporting search results to people who don’t work in search

Go to market

  • Product marketing: launches, sales enablement material, win and loss interviews
  • Positioning and messaging: choosing a category, rewriting a homepage, testing a message on real buyers before you ship it
  • Outbound and signal based prospecting: using hiring, funding or product usage signals, writing a first email people answer, keeping lists clean
  • Revenue operations: lead routing, handoffs between marketing and sales, pipeline reporting, keeping the customer database tidy
  • Pricing and packaging: tiers, free trials and free plans, raising prices without losing the customers you want to keep
  • Founder led sales: what changes when the founder stops closing every deal, and how the first sales process gets written down

Your idea isn’t on the list? Pitch it anyway if it helps someone do search or GTM work better.

Other topics

Useful posts outside search and go to market are welcome too, for example on business, technology, careers or productivity. They go under General, and their outside links carry rel=”ugc” (see Links below).

What a strong pitch looks like

A made up example to show the difference:

  • Weak: “Tips for better cold emails.”
  • Stronger: “We cut our first cold email to three sentences and only wrote to accounts that had just posted a sales hiring role. This post covers what changed in replies, what didn’t change at all, and the two mistakes we made before it worked.”

The second one tells us who it is for, what was done, and what the reader will take away. That is what we look for.

What we don’t publish

  • Gambling, betting or casino content
  • Adult content
  • Cryptocurrency pump schemes, token promotions and “guaranteed returns” investing
  • Cannabidiol (CBD) products
  • Payday loans, instant loans and other lending offers
  • Text produced by AI tools and pasted in with light edits
  • Rewritten, spun or machine translated versions of existing articles, your own included
  • Posts written mainly to carry a link
  • Sales pages for your product or a client’s product
  • News rewrites and press releases
  • Lists of tools you have never used

Length and format

  • Most posts land between 1,000 and 2,500 words. A shorter post is fine if it is complete. A longer one is fine if every section earns its place.
  • Upload a Word file (.docx works best) or share a Google Docs link set to “Anyone with the link” as Viewer. PDF, .odt and .txt files also work.
  • Suggest a title. We may edit it.
  • Use subheadings so a reader can scan the post.
  • Keep paragraphs short and the words plain. Write the way you would explain it to a colleague.
  • Spell out every short form the first time you use it.
  • Put each source right next to the claim it supports.

Originality

  • Your post must not be published anywhere else first: not on your blog, LinkedIn, Medium, a newsletter or another site.
  • Please don’t send the same post to other sites while we review it. If you change your mind, tell us and we will withdraw it.
  • We check every accepted post for copied or reworded passages before it goes live.

Images

  • Screenshots, charts and diagrams you made yourself work best.
  • For any image you didn’t make, you need permission or a license that allows reuse. Add a credit line under it with the creator’s name and a link to the source.
  • No watermarked images.
  • If an image was made with an AI tool, say so in the caption.
  • Add a short description of each image for readers who use screen readers.

Author bio

  • Your real name. No pen names.
  • Up to 50 words on what you do and what you work on.
  • One link to your own site or profile.

Links

A person checks every link before a post goes live. A link stays when it helps the reader check a claim or learn more. A link that is there for search engines comes out.

  • You get one link to your own site in your author bio.
  • You can add one more link to your own site in the body, if that page helps the reader. Other links should go to sources, original research and real examples, and to the most useful page, even when it isn’t yours.
  • Search and go to market posts: links that pass our review stay as normal links, with no nofollow added.
  • Posts on other topics (filed under General): every outside link carries rel=”ugc”, short for user generated content, the label Google asks sites to use for links added by contributors.
  • Anchor text should describe the page it points to. Keyword stuffed anchors get rewritten or removed.
  • No paid links, no link swaps, and no links to anything on the list of topics we don’t publish.
  • We don’t add or change links after a post goes live, except to replace a broken link with a working one.

Why we are careful about this: Google’s spam policies count links with keyword rich anchor text in guest posts as link spam (Google Search Central: spam policies). Google asks sites to mark links in user generated content with rel=”ugc”, and says that label can be dropped for trusted contributors (Google Search Central: qualify your outbound links). Google has also said that guest articles which inform readers are fine, and that the problem is articles written to collect links at scale (Google Search Central blog, 2017). Following those rules protects your site as much as it protects ours.

Using AI tools

You can use AI tools to research, build an outline or check your grammar. A person has to write the post, check every fact and stand behind it. Tell us in the “Note for the editor” box of the submission form which tools you used and what for. Posts that read as generated are declined.

Google gives the same advice to publishers: review AI output for accuracy before it goes live, and tell readers how the content was made when that helps them (Google Search Central: using generative AI content).

Disclosure

If you work for, advise, invest in or get paid by a company you mention or link to, tell us when you submit. We add a short disclosure line to the post. Leaving it out is the quickest way to get a post removed.

Review and timing

  • We reply within 7 days of your submission. The answer will be one of three: accepted, accepted with changes, or declined with a short reason.
  • We edit for clarity, accuracy and length. You will see the edited version before it goes live.
  • Once a post is accepted, we give you a planned publishing date.

Cost

Submitting, editing, publishing and keeping your post live are all free. We don’t charge for faster review, and there is no paid upgrade. If anyone asks you for money in the name of RankBoostLabs, it isn’t us. Please tell us at aryan@onegtmlab.dev.

After your post goes live

  • Your name and bio appear on the post, with a link to your site.
  • You keep the copyright to your words. By submitting, you allow RankBoostLabs to publish the post, edit it as described here and keep it online.
  • Because we only publish original work, please don’t republish the full post elsewhere. Quoting a short excerpt with a link back is fine.
  • Corrections, updates and removal requests are covered in our editorial policy.

How to submit

  1. Read this page and the editorial policy.
  2. Send your post through the submission form as a Word file, a Google Docs link or a PDF. A Word file becomes a draft on our side automatically, with your headings, links and images. A full draft is easiest to judge, but a pitch with a working title and an outline is welcome too.
  3. Questions before you send anything? Email aryan@onegtmlab.dev.

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