As the Traveling Tooth Fairy, my goal is to take my love of traveling and family and use it to inspire children (and maybe a few adults!) to expand their horizons and learn more about the world around them.
If you have a great cultural and educational travel-inspired story, we want to feature you as a guest blogger on our official Passport 4 Change blog.
Please submit your article through this form after you read our guidelines and terms.
Guest Blog Post Submission Requirements
Content
Your content:
- Must be about your personal travel or cultural experience and/or the educational applications of travel and learning about cultures.
- Must be your own original writing and not copied from another source outside of your own experience.
- Must be factual. You should do reasonable research to confirm its accuracy.
- Must follow these guidelines:
- Content cannot be unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, profane, obscene, libelous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, embarrassing, harmful to minors, or racially or ethnically bigoted or biased otherwise to any other person or entity.
- Must be respectful and factual about any culture or travel destination.
- Cannot be soliciting your product or services within the article. Your “About the Author” may include your bio, company or product name with a link to your site or a social media profile.
- Should be 400 – 1,000 words.
- We may edit your post for grammar or appropriateness for our audience.
- Should include at least one feature image (see below for details) and we encourage 2 or 3.
- Preferably not have been published on your site or multiple locations elsewhere and not be posted anywhere other than the Passport 4 Change site for at least a month from our date of publication.
Images & Video
We welcome your original images and/or video.
Your images:
- Must be relevant to the article’s content.
- Must be your own or you must have the right to use the images and/or video and allow us to use them. Please provide the source of any image, including a link to any stock photo listing in order for us to use them.
- If you’re including pictures of people, you must ensure that you have their permission to use them.
- Must be a .jpg, .gif or .png file and be at least 600px wide.
Video requirements
- Your video must be hosted on YouTube. Please provide the link to the video.
- Should be 1 to 4 minutes long.
- Must be relevant to the topic – travel video is preferred!
- Must not contain offensive language or images as detailed above regarding our content guidelines.
Links
We will credit you as the contributor of your post. Your byline and bio will be included at the bottom of your post.
- Please provide one link to your website or a social media account. This link may not be an affiliate link or redirect to an affiliate site.
- Links are allowed within the post if they are relevant to our site and your blog post topic.
- All links will be reviewed.
- You are welcome to suggest your own SEO information, such as anchor text or alt tags. They will be reviewed and subject to inclusion at our discretion.
Share Your Post
We will share your post on our social media accounts and will tag you so that you can share your guest blog.
- Please include your preferred social media profiles in your submission so we can tag you. .
- Please share and promote it on your own website, Facebook, Twitter or other social media forums.
Submission
- By submitting your post, you are agreeing to our Guest Post Agreement below.
- Not all submissions will be selected. We reserve the right to reject any submissions that do not meet our guidelines or that we feel are not a good fit.
- We will let you know if your article is posted or if we are unable to use it.
- We do not pay for posts. You will not receive any compensation or future compensation.
- Submit your post here.
- We may add our own images or relevant video if you do not add any. You will not receive the right to use any of those images/video.
- All submissions will be reviewed and approved by us prior to publication.
Guest Post Agreement & Terms
You understand and assert that:
- Your submission is your own original creation and/or you have all the necessary rights.
- Your submission was written by you. Anything not original or copied from other sources has been permitted by that source and that you have given credit where necessary.
- You either took the photos/videos included or you have permission to use them and have given credit where necessary.
- You have permission where necessary of any person or business that appear in your text, photos or video and can use their name, image, likeness, voice or other identifying features and that we have permission to use them as well. This implies that your article or media will not violate anyone’s privacy rights.
- If you use content from the public domain, public licensing or Creative Commons, you will provide written documentation of the source.
- You remain owner of your materials, but you give Passport 4 Change perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, nonexclusive, royalty-free, transferable and fully sublicensable right and license to reproduce, distribute, publicly display, perform, make derivative works of, and otherwise use your submission, or any part of it, in any form, media or technology, now known or later developed for us for any other purpose, including for marketing purposes.
- You give us the perpetual, irrevocable, nonexclusive, worldwide and royalty-free, transferable right to use your name and likeness in connection with the publication and marketing of your submission and to allow others to use them for the same purposes.
- We are under no obligation to use your submission and reserve the right to not publish your submission at any time.
- We may make changes to the presentation of or remove your submission at any time without notifying you. We may remove any images, video, text or links without notifying you.
- You are responsible for the content you provide to us in your submission. All statements in your submission that are asserted as facts are true and/or based upon reasonable research for accuracy. You will immediately notify us if you receive a demand letter, claim or other notice of infringement related to the content used in your submission. You will defend, indemnify and hold harmless us, our its employees or vendors from any claim, cost, liability or action (including attorneys’ fees and expenses) brought by any third party against us in connection with your submission.
- You are not being paid or compensated in any way outside of exposure and a link to your site.
- You acknowledge that you will receive no payment or compensation for our exercise of any of the rights you’ve granted to us in this agreement and that you are not entering into this agreement with the expectation of any payment. You waive any right to royalties or other compensation that may arise from or related to the use of your submission or any part of your submission.
- We are not guaranteeing any particular audience reach or exposure.
- You are an independent contractor and we are dealing with each other as independent businesses or individuals, and that you are not an employee or agent of us.
- You have the right to control the method by which you create your Submission and assume all responsibility for the quality, scope and accuracy of your Submission. You are wholly responsible for payment of any employment related taxes.
- You may not use our logo or name in a way that implies we are partners or have endorsed you, your website, blog or any other products of yours.
- You may use our logo for the purpose of promoting your post on our blog.
- This Guest Post Agreement & Terms sections along with the Guest Blog Post Submission Requirements is the entire agreement between us related to your Submission.
- Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of this agreement or the Guest Blog Post Submission Requirements does not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.
- This agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of California, USA without regard to such state’s rules regarding conflicts of laws. The federal district court located in Fresno County, California USA shall have exclusive jurisdiction over all claims and actions arising out of or relating to this agreement.
