Write for Us
Tech Fold publishes practical guides across eight subjects, and we take a small number of guest contributions in every one of them. This page says exactly what each category wants, what we turn down, and what happens to your links, so you can decide whether to pitch before you spend an hour on it.
We reply to every pitch that follows the guidelines below. We do not reply to bulk outreach.
Write for us: what each category takes
Pick one. A pitch that could sit in three categories usually belongs in none of them.
Tech
Yes: Device and software problems with a definite answer. Symptom to cause diagnostics, settings that actually change something, plain explanations of a term people keep meeting.
No: Funding news, product launches, roundups of AI tools you have not used.
Business
Yes: Operational how to for people running something small. Hiring, invoicing, outsourcing, the admin nobody explains properly.
No: Thought leadership, motivational writing, anything that could be about any business.
Marketing
Yes: Mechanics a reader can follow the same afternoon. Email, on page SEO, content process, with the numbers you actually saw.
No: Agency case studies that are advertisements, and predictions for next year.
Health
Yes: Evidence led general information, every claim traceable to CDC, NIH, MedlinePlus, FDA or peer reviewed research. Held to the highest bar on the site and always carries a medical disclaimer.
No: Supplement promotion, diagnosis or treatment guidance, personal cure stories, anything you cannot source.
Lifestyle
Yes: Practical home, wardrobe, food and everyday guides where something gets done by the end.
No: Personal essays, brand roundups, and posts whose real subject is a shop.
Home Improvement
Yes: Repair and maintenance with the real steps, the tools, the costs in dollars, and an honest line on when to stop and call somebody.
No: Contractor advertorials and anything that skips the safety step.
Travel
Yes: Specific rules and logistics a reader can check against a policy page. Baggage limits, documentation, timing, what airlines and border agencies actually require.
No: Destination listicles, best places to visit, and anything that is really a booking link.
Online Games
Yes: How a platform genuinely works. Joining, hosting, classroom use, the difference between two things people confuse.
No: Game reviews, download or APK links, and anything aimed at driving installs.
What a yes looks like
- 1,200 to 2,000 words. Long enough to answer the question properly, short enough that you had to choose what mattered.
- The answer in the first 60 words. Not the background, the answer. The reasoning goes underneath it.
- One question, answered completely. Not a survey of a subject.
- Written for readers in the United States. Dollars, imperial units with metric in parentheses, services a reader can actually reach.
- Sources named and linked to primary material. Official documentation, regulators, manufacturer specifications, peer reviewed research. Not another blog post.
- First hand experience stated as such. If you did it yourself, say so. If you did not, cite whoever did. Both are fine, pretending is not.
- Original and unpublished, here and everywhere else, now and later.
- No dashes as punctuation. Commas instead. That is our house style across the site and we will edit for it, so writing it that way saves us both a round.
On writing tools: we care whether a guide is true, tested and useful, not which software helped you write it. What gets declined is work with no first hand knowledge behind it, which reads the same whoever or whatever produced it.
What we turn down
- Pitches with a topic but no angle. “An article about email marketing” is a category, not an idea.
- A tidier version of what already ranks. If page one already answers it, tell us what page one gets wrong.
- Anything whose actual purpose is the link. It is obvious from the first paragraph.
- Offers of free content with no subject attached.
- Posts under about 1,000 words.
- Identical emails visibly sent to thirty sites. We can tell, and so can you.
Links, read this before you pitch
This is the part everyone wants to know, so it is written plainly rather than buried.
- You get one link in your author bio, to your own site or professional profile. That is yours and it is not negotiable downward.
- Links inside the article are editorial. They go in where a source genuinely supports a claim, and the final call on them is ours during editing.
- If the piece links to a site you own, work for, or are paid by, say so in the pitch. The form asks you directly. A yes is not a rejection.
- Anything commercial gets labelled. Where an arrangement is paid, the article carries a sponsored label at the top, in line with the FTC Endorsement Guides and our own disclosure rules.
- Undisclosed link insertion is the one thing that ends it. Slip a client link in without telling us and the piece comes down and you are declined permanently.
Our disclosure policy sets out how we label commercial content, and our editorial policy covers how every guide on the site is researched, reviewed and corrected. Contributed pieces are held to the same standard as our own.
What happens after you send a pitch
- We read pitches once a week.
- If it is a yes, you get a short brief back: the question to answer, a word count, a working headline and a deadline you agree to.
- You send a first draft. We do one round of edits together.
- We edit for house style and may change your headline. The substance stays yours.
- It goes out with your byline and your bio link.
- Two weeks of silence is a no, and you are free to place the piece elsewhere. We would rather tell you that here than leave you waiting.
If we commission you
- Send a Google Doc or plain Markdown. No pasted styling.
- H2 for sections, H3 underneath. One H1 only, which is the headline.
- Images only where they show something words cannot. Supply the source and confirm you have the right to use it.
- Alt text for every image, describing what it shows rather than repeating the caption.
- A two line author bio and one link, written in the third person.
Questions we get asked before people pitch
Do you accept guest posts?
Yes, a small number in each of our eight categories. Send a pitch rather than a finished article, because we agree the angle and the question the piece answers before anyone writes two thousand words.
Do you charge to publish?
Editorial contributions are published free. Where an arrangement is commercial, the article carries a sponsored label at the top of the page, in line with the FTC Endorsement Guides and our own disclosure policy. Labelled either way, never quietly.
Do you give dofollow links?
You get one link in your author bio to your own site or professional profile. Links inside the article are editorial, so they go where a source supports a claim and the final call is ours. Inserting an undisclosed client link gets the piece taken down.
How long until I hear back?
We read pitches once a week and reply within about a week to the ones we want. Two weeks of silence means no, and you are free to place the piece elsewhere.
Can I send a finished article instead of a pitch?
You can, but it rarely helps. A piece written before we have agreed the angle usually needs rewriting, and we would rather spend that effort on the brief than on undoing it.
Can I include images?
Yes, where an image shows something the words cannot. Supply the source, confirm you have the right to use it, and write alt text describing what it shows.
Pitch us
One form, and it takes about five minutes if you already have the idea. The angle box is the part we read first.