Would you Like to Contribute?

Have a great case study about how you revamped your site architecture to be more search-engine friendly? Make a site change that increased your search rankings and brought you more customers? Implement a a search-friendly technique in your code that would be useful for other web developers to know? We'd love for you to write an article for us about it.

All authors receive an author page with a short bio, link, and list of articles written for Jane and Robot.

What we're looking for

You can submit an article idea that you'd like to see on Jane and Robot, as well as an idea for an article you'd like to write. If you'd like, you can submit a fully-written article that adheres to our writing guidelines and we'll let you know if we can use it for the site.

We're looking for articles that provide concrete implementation information about coding techniques that really make a difference in search-friendly design. If you've solved a tricky problem or implemented an infrastructure that works particularly well, our readers would love to know about it. Have you worked out a successful process between your engineering team and marketing department? Created a reusable library you'd like to make available? Jane and Robot is all about practical advice about things that really matter for search engine optimization and an elegant, compelling user experience. Search-friendly code is just as much about Jane as it is about Robot.

What we're not looking for

Jane and Robot isn't about get rich quick with SEO schemes. We aren't looking for black hat techniques that might get a site penalized. And we aren't interested in SEO tactics that don't take the customer into account. Those techniques may work short term, but we're interested in ideas that build long-term value for a business and keep visitors coming back.

Writing guidelines

We want you to write in your own unique voice and style, but we have a few guidelines that help our readers have a consistent experience.

• We only accept original articles that haven't been published elsewhere (and aren't planned to be published elsewhere in the future).
• Link out when appropriate, but don't overdo it.
• Define terms and acronyms. Our readers have a wide range of experience in search engine optimization and web development.
• Use clean and valid HTML markup.
• Format code samples using Manoli or Simple Bits.
• Include images when they add useful illustration.
• Use subheadings, bullets, and numbers to organize content.
• Include a short author bio if you haven't published with us before. Bios should be under 50 words.

Articles should generally be under 1000 words in length. Consider organizing longer articles into multiple parts.

Submit An Article

Submit your article idea or article here. We'll contact you within three business days in response to your submission. Thank you!

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