We only accept completely unique and original articles in this directory. Our stories come from a variety of authors who contribute their own content in exchange for a few links at the bottom of their articles. Each article aims to give useful information and not fluff. This article directory’s goal is to provide useful, high quality articles with information that you will want to pass on to others.

Here is what we require:

• Correct spelling and grammar.
• American English.
• Be at least 300 words. Articles of 400+ words are appreciated.
• Your keyword can only appear once every 100 words.
• Use numbered or bulleted lists when you can.
• Only 1 space after a period, not two – we’re not using a monospaced font (which is the rule – also we find that people who think that two spaces after a period is correct often aren’t consistent at it anyway).
• Do not specify a font or paragraph alignment (for example, do not fully justify paragraphs).
• Article titles should have the first letter of each word capitalized except for smaller words like: and, a, an, the, for and so on.
• Bold and italics can be used in moderation. Do not have any underlined words. Do not bold your links.
• You get 2 links per 300 words. They can be in your content or in your last paragraph (also called a Resource Box).
• The article must provide useful information that solves a problem or answers a question.

If you feel you can meet and exceed our standards, then we would love for you to submit a sample article to us. You can email it to us here: info[at]theoriginalsource.com and if it’s accepted, you will be given an account where you will find that accepted article and submit more to us.

This website is actively being promoted. It is also regularly crawled by major search engines. We feel that if you submit quality content to us, you will benefit from it. Our motto is, “you only get out of something what you put into it” and we think it’s very true.

Tips on Writing Articles:

• Make the title of your article the keyword phrase that you’re trying to rank for. The best articles on this site have this in common.
• Provide some great information that takes a little research. This is what people are looking for when they search. Answer a question that people have or provide a solution to something.
• Use short, structured paragraphs. Seeing 400 words in two, large paragraphs is not very inviting.
• Use headlines above your paragraphs so that that the article is very scannable.
• Use bulleted lists and numbered lists where applicable. People read them – like right now!
• Don’t overuse keywords. Use your main keyword 1-2 times in the article but also include 3-4 related keywords in your article. On the opposite side of things, please don’t use words like “these” too many times. What you write should be natural and sound natural when read aloud.
• When the article is published, point some links to your article here on this site. Websites like this have some authority with search engines and just pointing a few links to it will get you traffic and help your website rank higher. Each page on the Web starts as a PR 0. On some sites, it’s harder to make a page a PR 1 or 2 or 3 but on other sites (hintity, hint, hint), it’s easier.

If you submit a good article to us, we’ll even promote it, so it’s to your advantage to submit the best article that you can.

Article Submission Cost

To submit an article to The Original Source is free. Again, it must be original and pass the filters at Copyscape.

Article Writing Service

If you would like a 500 word unique article written and posted here for you that contains 2 links to your website, the cost is only $15. The article stays here forever and only gains strength as time goes by.

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