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Hi, welcome to Startup Silicon.

Before you scroll down to grab our email ID below, please take 5 minutes to review our guest post submission guidelines to ensure your submission meets our requirements.

Who’s the Startup Silicon’s audience?

  • Entrepreneurs (~85% beginners, 15% intermediate and beyond), marketers, and small business owners.
  • 90% of our readers are from India with the majority of remaining readers from US/CA/UK/AU/Africa.

What kind of content are our readers looking for?

Actionable advice on starting a startup, building an online presence, growing an audience, and generating revenue. Always back your pitches up with solid keyword research to cover new angle or topics we haven’t covered.

Here’s what works for our audience:

  • Unique tactics that’s driven traffic to your startup’s website, with data or examples to prove it.
  • Monetization strategy that’s worked for your startup, including stats, screenshots, or real stories to back it up.
  • Roundups of top tools, tactics, or tips for a specific startup niche, like SaaS, D2C, B2Bor social impact ventures.
  • Case studies showing how you’ve grown a startup or niche site to strong traffic or profitability, with clear steps others can follow.
  • A process or formula that’s helped you launch or scale a startup, like customer acquisition or investor pitching.
  • Free templates or checklists for founders to use in planning, marketing, or growing their businesses.

What are the basic requirements?

  • Your article must be original of course!
  • No AI-generated content (We use a detection tool to verify)
  • Your article must be written in simple English, no complex words/phrases and jargon. When we read your article, we should feel like you’re sitting across from us in the living room having a real conversation
  • Check that what you want to write about has not already been covered. (use a site:startupsilicon.com Google search or use the search option on website). If we’ve already covered it, but you feel you still have something to say on the subject that we’ve not yet covered, please let us know in your pitch exactly how your angle will be different & why it’ll rank for a different set of keywords
  • Be sure you’ve cleared your topic with us and we’ve agreed before starting your research
  • Once your article is drafted, share your draft with us via Google Docs and we’ll review it in 7 to 10 days and leave comments/feedback in the Google Docs
  • After we’ve locked in the final draft, we’ll get to work publishing your article

How long should your guest post be?

At least 1,500 words. In most cases we recommend quite a bit longer. (We see that articles with 2,500 – 4,000 words tend to perform best on our platform). 

There are exceptions to this rule—if you want to submit a guest post that you believe is better expressed in less than 1,500 words just let us know the reasoning and we’ll consider.

How many links back to your own site can you insert?

2 relevant editorial links to your own site that add value to the reader. No landing pages or promotional pages unless you clear them with us first (please give us your reasoning). If you feel strongly that you deserve an exception to the 2 links in-content rule, make your case before submitting a final draft to us.

How many internal and external links can you insert?

External links:

We don’t have a hard limit here, but know that we’ve been doing this for 10+ years and immediately know when a link is contextually relevant and provides value to the article vs a link that’s been added for link building purposes.

  • Is this link relevant to the main topic, and does it add value to the reader? 
  • Generally, we prefer links to authoritative sites with an Ahrefs DR of 40+. If you have a compelling reason to link to a site with a lower DR, please call out the link with a comment in your Google Doc draft and share your reasoning.
  • Please link to statistics, research, and other authoritative sources. Always aim to link to the original source, rather than sites that simply quote the stat.

Again, please refrain from stuffing your guest post with links to other sites for link building purposes. It’s just going to lead our editorial team to reject your guest post. Unless external links are very relevant and add unique value to your post, know that we reserve the right to remove any links and am not shy about rejecting guest posts that seem suspect.

Internal links:

Again, no hard limit here. Be sure the internal links are relevant and add value to the article.

Why was your guest post not accepted?

We care first and foremost about our readers, and if we feel that your guest post isn’t relevant or doesn’t provide enough value to them, we might reject your pitch even if it’s great.

Important Note

A one-time fee of Rs.499 is required per guest post once it is published. Make the payment here.

Why the fee? This small charge ensures we receive submissions from committed writers and helps us maintain the quality of our platform by covering the time and effort spent on reviewing and publishing.

For all further communication, use our email – info [at] startupsilicon.com.