Submission Guidelines

Guide Title:
The title for any guide should be the most important thing for you to consider. It should accurately reflect the topic that you are writing about and should ideally contain between 1 - 5 words. The title cannot be in all capital letters although each important word in the title may start with a capital letter. A title for your guide is mandatory if you wish to have it accepted and published.

Guide Keywords:
The keywords for your guide should be related to the main article topic and should appear in the guide content. The keywords should not be excessively repeated and should appear a maximum of two times in the keyword list. The keywords can be used to help locate the article in the search available from this site and therefore must appear in your article. The article keywords are totally optional.

Guide Category:
Please select the most appropriate category as failure to do so could result in the submission being rejected. If a specific category is not available then please choose the closest associated category and submit it for approval. Runescape-help.net staff reserve the right to move any article to the category they feel it is best associated with. A category selection is mandatory for guides to be accepted.

Guide Summary:
The article summary should be no more than 200 characters (not 200 words), and should accurately sum up the entire content of the guide.

Please do not simply repeat the title or use all capitals as this can result in the guide being rejected or edited. The guide summary is also important for people using the search facility as this is generally what people will see in the search results. It is therefore essential to accurately summise your main guide if you wish people to find exactly what they are looking for. The summary is optional as long as the guide has sufficient quality to merit inclusion in our database.

Guide Content:
The content of all guides submitted must be the authors own work. Guide contents can contain an outgoing link, however, the intention is to included any self promotional outbound links in the about author section. Any author submitting a guide with excessive outbound links or links to unrelated websites may have all the links edited out. All outbound links must adhere to Jagex rules and in general point to websites only suitable for family viewing.

The ideal content length of any article will be between 250 and 750 words. All guide writers must remember to use good grammar and sentence fluidity to ensure they retain the readers' interest. If a guide is unclear, written in 'leet speak' or full of spelling mistakes, it will make reading it very difficult and may be rejected on the grounds of poor quality.

All guides should be in english and be written with the reader in mind. Any outgoing links should only be pointed at active webpages, preferably the main domain of the site in question. Outbound links that are persistently down will be edited to non-live links.

All guides will be submitted via the wysiwyg editor and can contain images and tables. Any images that are submitted should also be the work of the guide writer or be in the public domain so as not to infringe on any copywrite. In addition, images will initially be either hosted externally by the guide writer or a 3rd party website that offers free image hosting. When guides are accepted into the database, the picture will be uploaded to the Runescape-help.net website and will effectively become the intellectual property of this website.

All authors will keep copywrite to their original guides although Runescape-help.net retains the right to display the guide in whatever manner is deemed most suitable.

Special Notes:
Guides that are submitted for runescape monsters or runecape items should contain a relevant picture of the monster or item. The guide title should be the monster or item name in all cases where possible to reduce the chances of duplicate guides appearing.

Regarding Runescape Clans articles, the actual clan leader or clan representative should be the only person publishing any official information. In the clan recruitment section, only one article per clan should be submitted. This can be edited as clan requirements change and recruitment closes or opens and can contain a link to the clan forum, memberlist or website provided it is within Jagex rules and that the quality guidelines are met for publishing.

About Author:
The author section should be written in the third person. Instead of I work on xyz website, it should be more along the lines of Authorname is a full time consultant for xyz website. A maximum of two outbound links will be permitted in this section and in the case where more than two links are submitted, editors will use only the first two links after removing the excess.

Guide writers who continually submit articles with excessive promotional links will have their guide submissions automatically declined without review. The emphasis for Runescape-help.net is quality over quantity.

Disclaimer

Runescape-help.net accepts no liability for content on third party websites. Runescape-help.net tries to ensure all third party websites are family safe although cannot always confirm this if content is changed on a regular basis on sites that guides link to.