Guest Post Guidelines

Welcome to Carson Blog. We are one of the most engaged e-commerce blogs with a focus on helping Shopify sellers.

If you like to contribute to Carson blog and share your expertise with a large audience of Shopify business owners and e-commerce sellers, we’d love to hear from you.

Here’s what you need to know for guest posting on our blog.

The bare essentials of the content we publish:

Successful guest contributions are comprehensive, data-driven, and interesting posts that teach our readers something new about the world of e-commerce. The ultimate goal of every content we publish on our blog is to help Shopify sellers to be successful in their e-commerce venture.

We look for a few things in the content we publish.

  1. The content should be ‘Actionable’.
  2. The content should be 100% original, ideally between 900-1500 words.
  3. Well researched with all supporting data, links, examples, and screenshots wherever needed.
  4. Format your blog post for better readability and SEO. Follow these blog formatting tips.
  5. Have an introduction that attracts interest and makes the reader want to read further. Have a call to action for readers in the end.
  6. Shouldn’t contain any copyrighted material. Give proper credit wherever needed.

The kind of content we look for.

Our audience mainly consists of serious e-commerce business owners (selling on the Shopify platform). Our community of sellers loves actionable ideas that they can put to use right away. We try to publish articles with a lot of such insights in the following areas:

  • E-commerce Marketing, sales, and growth.
  • E-commerce tools & technology.
  • Being successful with Shopify.

Here are some examples of the kind of content we look for:

How To Optimize Shopify Page Loading Speed In 5 Simple Steps

How to Build Your List & Implement The Core Ecommerce Email Automations For Additional Sales

Policy for outbound links:

  1. You can add relevant links to authority sites or sources wherever necessary. Ideally, the no. of links should be limited to 3-4 but, depending upon the length/type of the content it can be more.
  2. There shouldn’t be multiple links towards the same domain.
  3. You can put one link to your website in your short introduction which we will publish along with the blog post.

How to submit a guest post request:

Please send an email to the editor: hello@heycarson.com. Start the Subject line with GUEST POST.

  1. Tell us who you are.
  2. Add a couple of links to your best posts.
  3. Suggest your topic (ideally more than one) and state what value those topics will provide to the audience of Carson blog.