Editorial Policy – Giants Causeway Official Guide

Introduction

Would you like to submit a guest post or become a regular contributor to one of our sites?

Before submitting content to the Giants Causeway Official Guide, please take a few moments to read through our editorial policy. Compliance with the guidelines below significantly improves the likelihood of your idea or article being reviewed, accepted, and published.

This policy exists to protect the integrity, reputation, and long-term value of the site for our readers, partners, and owners. All content must meet our quality, relevance, and ethical standards.


Editorial Standards & Site Purpose

The Giants Causeway Official Guide exists to provide informative, engaging, and trustworthy content related to:

  • Science and natural history
  • Humour and light-hearted storytelling
  • Interesting statistics, facts, and maps
  • Science fiction (where clearly labelled and relevant)
  • Reviews of attractions, places to stay, places to eat, and events
  • Travel and tourism across Northern Ireland and the wider Causeway Coast region

Content should be written with curiosity, clarity, and respect for the reader. If you are making a claim, forming an argument, or presenting an opinion, it must be supported by legitimate evidence and credible sources.


Tone & Behaviour Guidelines

We welcome personality and perspective, but not hostility.

The following will not be accepted:

  • Name-calling, trolling, or personal attacks
  • Defamatory, libellous, or misleading statements
  • Hateful or discriminatory language
  • Conspiracy-driven or pseudoscientific claims presented as fact

If you are attempting to persuade or challenge an idea, do so with evidence, balance, and respect.

We strongly recommend reviewing the site’s navigation and existing categories to understand the tone, structure, and audience expectations before submitting content Northern Ireland Travel Blog Po….


Prohibited Content & Links (Non-Negotiable)

To protect readers and brand partners, submissions must not contain links to or promotion of:

  • Adult or sexually explicit content
  • Gambling, betting, or gaming services
  • Pharmaceutical products or medical sales pages
  • Recreational drugs or controlled substances
  • Financial scams, get-rich-quick schemes, or misleading offers
  • Any content that could reasonably be considered not in the best interests of the site or its owners

This includes direct links, indirect references, affiliate links, or contextual promotion.

Any submission containing prohibited links or themes will be rejected without revision.


Content Eligibility & Originality

All submissions must meet the following requirements:

  • Must be 100% original content written by you
  • Must not be spun, paraphrased, or republished from existing articles
  • Will be checked using plagiarism-detection tools (e.g. Copyscape, Grammarly)
  • Must not be copied from public-domain sources such as Wikipedia
  • If external data, quotations, or research are used:
    • They must be clearly cited
    • You must have the appropriate licence or usage rights

If an article is published and later found to be plagiarised, it will be removed immediately.


Commercial Content & Sponsorship

Submissions must not be advertisements, sales pages, or spam.

We do accept sponsored posts, provided that:

  • Sponsorship is declared upfront
  • Content meets the same editorial standards as non-sponsored posts
  • Any links, placements, or commercial intent are mutually agreed in advance

Undisclosed promotional content will not be published.


Quality & Readability Standards

Your submission must:

  • Use proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation
    • (Tip: Grammarly or equivalent tools are strongly recommended)
  • Be written in clear, accessible language
  • Avoid excessive jargon or unexplained terminology
  • Be suitable for a broad, family-friendly audience

Submissions requiring heavy rewriting or correction may be declined.


Length, Structure & Media

Content should adhere to the following guidelines:

  • Minimum length: 1,000 words
  • Longer articles may be published as multi-part features
  • Image-heavy or list-based articles (e.g. top-10s) may be shorter where appropriate

Submissions should also:

  • Include suggested categories and relevant keywords
  • Include images, diagrams, or maps where they add value
  • Ensure all media is either:
    • Original
    • Properly licensed
    • Correctly sourced and credited

Uniqueness & Exclusivity

All accepted content must be unique to the Content Kings site (including the Giants Causeway Official Guide) where it is published.

We do not accept content that has appeared elsewhere, including personal blogs, Medium, LinkedIn articles, or other publications.


Editorial Review & Response Times

We aim to respond to all genuine guest post and contributor enquiries. However:

  • Response times may vary during busy periods
  • Submissions that clearly ignore this editorial policy may not receive a reply
  • Emails that appear promotional, automated, or spam-like may be filtered before review

Please ensure your enquiry is clear, relevant, and compliant.


Final Note

Our editorial policy is designed to maintain a high-quality, trustworthy, and reader-first platform. Following these guidelines not only improves your chances of publication — it helps ensure the site remains a valuable resource for years to come.

We look forward to reading thoughtful, well-researched, and genuinely interesting submissions.

Work With Us

Would you like to work with us? We have a number of ways that we can work together to get the most out of the site.


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We want to offer local businesses the opportunity to reach targeted markets both here and overseas at an affordable rate. We also offer advertising opportunities on this and our other sites

Accommodation Providers

Here at Giants Causeway Guide, we have a place for accommodation providers to advertise their properties. There re two options, you can choose,

Option 1 –  Booking.com – if your property is listed on Booking.com, then you can send us an image of your property and a 150 – 200 word description and well put it up for free (we get a commission from them) 

Option 2 – Go direct with us. Well help you to craft a 2-300 word description and an image. So that visitors go directly through you.

Tour Operators

One of our reasons for developing the Giants Causeway Guide was to help local, ideally small independent, guides promote the work that they do to a wider but more focussed audience.

The site was previously funded through affiliate links to guides and tours, most of which were not based here.

We will work with you to craft advertorial style pages for your guide or guides. We will make this as detailed as you want to get it noticed and Ranking on Search Engines.

The post will include images, videos (if you have them), testimonials and all the details you want. It can either link to your site or a page on it i.e. bookings

Advertisers

To inquire about advertising your product, website, or content on Relatively Interesting, please contact us at admin AT contentkings DOT ie

Before inquiring, please review the notes below to see if your advertisements are good fit for the site and its audience.

What kinds of ad formats do you accept?

Currently, we support the following types of ad formats:

  • Contextual:  Your is a word or group of words that are being linked to a website/product within an article/post.
  • Non-Contextual Text:  Your ad is a link outside of an article (ex: on a widget, or directly on the homepage, or on the sidebar or footer).
  • Contextual Images:  An image that is within an article. For example, a book review or product review has an image, and that image links to a site where the product may be purchased.
  • Non-contextual Images: An image that is placed outside of an article (ex: in the footer, sidebar, etc.).
  • Sponsored Post:  You provide us with an article, and we publish it. The article must follow our editorial policy.
  • Sponsored Post (written by us): We write an article about your product or service. The article, along with its content (text, images) offer the product for purchase through an external site. Here’s an example.

We currently do not offer banner advertisements, “background-image” ads, homepage takeovers, or pop-ups.

What kind of products/websites can I advertise?

We will not link out to websites or products that are opposed to our philosophy. For example, we’d never link to a book by a psychic who claims to have supernatural powers, or to a supplement that claims to improve memory or cure cancer dramatically. We would, however, link to a book that describes how psychics practice their craft (i.e.: the art of cold reading).

In general, links to science-based products or educational materials are best (ex: microscopes, telescopes, books, DVD sets, courses, course-ware, funny t-shirts or other apparel, etc.).

What about the Google Ads you have on the site? 

Well, we don’t control those since they’re served up Google. We’ve blocked the nasty stuff, but occasionally you might see an ad that goes against our general policy. We do keep an eye on it though and will filter out inappropriate ads when possible.

What are your rates?

Our rates are very flexible and competitive. At this stage, we do not have a self-serve system, so please contact WorkWithUs AT ContentKings DOT ie for any inquiries.

As a general rule, the fees for contextual ads are the lowest, and the charges for non-contextual images ads are the highest. For example, an image placed on the primary sidebar on the site (guaranteeing its visibility on any post) would have a higher rate than a contextual link in a single article. For sponsored posts, prices are flexible based on article length. Volume discounts may also be applied.

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