Content etiquette & blogging guidelines

Please note: Guest blogging is reserved for Business West Chamber and Initiative members. Find out more about membership.

The purpose of the members' blog on www.businesswest.co.uk is to enable the sharing of valuable expertise and knowledge with a large business community across the region through original, high-quality content that aims to educate, inspire and inform businesses.

Successful submissions are detailed and valuable posts that help our visitors learn something new 
about business, whilst also helping contributors to raise their profile in their field of industry.

Submissions will be approved by the Business West team before going live. We will also promote any 
high-quality blogs to additionally appear under the main Business West blog or homepage at our editors' 
discretion and they may also be included within relevant email newsletters.

Submissions must:

• Be well-written, from 400 to 2000+ words
• Be 100% original, exclusive to our site and not already published on other websites
• Not be copied to other sites (but can be linked to easily from our site)
• Be detailed content that provides actionable advice
• Include attribution for all data or statistics cited with a hyperlink
• Reference links in a post are non-promotional, and relevant to the post
• Include one or two sentence author bio with a headshot (update your 'member profile'!)
• Consider your topic and in particular your title - ensure your article is SEO attractive

What we won't approve:

• An existing blog that has already been published on other sites
• Blogs considered as a link-building scheme
• Thin content providing little value
• Blogs that heavily promote your business (our blog is not a sales channel, and overtly sales-focused and advertorial-style content will not be accepted)
• Plagiarised content
• Misleading or inaccurate content
• Defamatory or excessively negative content

Click here to read the Business West member blog submission guidelines in full.

How to submit your content:

Take a look at our step-by-step blog posting guide for members.

Business West editors reserve the right to reject contributions at their discretion. Editors reserve the right to edit, adapt, update, and republish contributions at their discretion. Calls-to-action to  Business West content may be added to published submissions. Contributed posts may be removed from the blog at the editors' discretion.