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Have you ever been featured on Huffington Post or similar site?

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    Have you ever been featured on Huffington Post or similar site?

    Have you ever got an article onto the Huffington Post site or another similar site like WashingtonPost, Forbes, TheDailyBeast, Rawstory, Alternet, Salon, Buzzflash, BusinessInsider or BusinessWeek, Bloomberg, SeekingAlpha etc etc? Or what about any other big news sites like NBC, CBS, CNN, USA Today, Foxnews, Time, Gawker, Sky, NPR, IBTimes, Buzzfeed, Lifehack, Medium, Instructables, etc etc?

    Have you ever been featured on Huffington Post or similar site?
    The reason I ask is (not only are there are lot of benefits to that) but that I see people selling services to get you an article published on Huffington Post. And I'm just wondering how it is they do that. Because I've been reading around and looking into this, into what it would take to get your content published on Huffington Post and it's not easy. Before, you could join their contributor panel and submit it and within a few hours they'd publish it. But all that changed a while back when the owner decided to step away from the site to focus solely on her new project. And the contributor platform you could register to which you could submit your article to is now closed saying "Registration for the Contributor Platform is closed."

    I did find this Google docs form to pitch a blog to Huffington Post. On that it says;

    Welcome! Feel free to pitch any topic you like. We're always looking for posts that are succinct, shareable and satisfying. Have something to say that nobody else is saying, or a personal story everyone will relate to? Send it to us here. Also, please note that, like any publication, we cannot respond to all queries and you'll only hear from us if it's something we're interested in running.
    And I'm yet to do that (currently writing an article to submit). I'm just making sure that it's very "Huffington publish worthy". And I know, there can be a lot of benefits to that such as the following.

    Reasons to get published on Huffington Post, Forbes etc etc

    • Improved Rankings
      These are high quality sites so you're going to get the benefit for your article being on them with links to your site. Even if they are no follow or no index.
    • Direct Traffic
      Because these sites have millions of people using and reading them every day your article(s) can send you tons of direct traffic to your site.
    • Increased Search Engine / Social Presence
      If your news story article is good it can go viral and that means many people will see it and if you have links to your site and social media profiles in it you can expect some followers from it.
    • Increased Reputation/Respect
      If you get your article featured on Huffington Post you can put a "As Seen on Huffington Post" label and Huffington Post logo on your site. That will help you to gain more clients and advertiser attention.
    But have you ever got your news article submitted and published to Huffington Post or any site mentioned here?

    How did you / do you do it?

    Let me know! Have you ever been featured on Huffington Post or similar site?

    Thanks!

    Mike.

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    Cristian

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    I got this girl on Skype that made me a bunch of offers for articles on Huffington and Buzzfeed. If I remember this correctly she asked around 50 bucks for an article, which I think is very cheap for a big site like Huffington or Buzzfeed.

    I do believe most of these offers are scammers and if they do manage to deliver such a service I don't think your article will be posted on the first page. I've seen similar services from other news type online publications that sold advertorials for cheap prices but the links were nofollow and you weren't published on the homepage or any category page for that matter, so no traffic and no authority - why exactly would I pay for that?
    9 years ago

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    idealmike

    idealmike

    Here's what I've found. If you search around for things like "How to submit to Huffington Post" etc etc you'll find some blogs that talk about their journey and experience of submitting an article to them. Basically, the main way they did it was to email the editors (you can even buy lists of them). If you send a "pitch" to them along with your "publish worthy / huff worthy" news article and include a bio too, they can just review it and then publish it for you. And you can find all the editors email addresses including Ariana's (the old owner) and if you email her she'll just forward it to the editors. And if you get published once, they'll likely accept all your submissions after if they are of good quality. They may even create a back end publisher account so you can submit articles for approval. So it's not actually that hard but I think people are doing that, but then still charging people up to $500 for the privilege. And you're right, mostly, unless your story goes viral, it only appears on their blog and not on the homepage for long at all since they publish up to 500 new articles a day! Plus, articles are even "no index" so they aren't crawled and indexed by Google. Plus links are no follow too. So you don't really get much SEO benefit from them but a link is still a link and it is a prestigious site in the eyes of a lot of people and getting your article on them can be beneficial from a trust perspective. Some people do get a lot of traffic from it but only those that submit to it all the time. It's not a one time thing like anything but yeah. It can be done for free if you're willing to research how it's done, do lots of reading and go about doing their suggestions.
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    overcast

    overcast

    My friend got featured in Huffington post. But she didn't earned anything. Neither it helped her for her website. She's a wellness coach. And she once posted about the health issue. And from that she got some hits but it didn't helped at all. You can see that some of such sites are not going to earn you anything. As most of the users are not going to buy. So for making portfolio it can be really good.
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    joegirl

    joegirl

    Now that would be something! I have never being published on any of those sites. Aside from writing a best selling novel, this is certainly on my bucket list.
    And those offering services to get a writer on, first off, I am very careful who I send my work to. It is very hard these days to copyright articles and also hard to prove you are the original author once you give it to someone to pass to a third party.
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    vinaya

    vinaya

    I have not published on prestigious online magazines mentioned by the OP. However, I have published in many print newspapers in my home country. I have even published articles on state-owned newspapers.
    I want to get published in magazines like Huffington Post, but I have never pitched articles.
    8 years ago

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    augusta

    augusta

    I have read about Huffington and how to get featured there and it on my to-do list, will definitely get published there if I'm to go by the benefits one can derive from the sites from your post,I think it will go a long way to boost my site.Will have to research more on this.
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