Become an Author

Do you like to write about small business technology, AI, cybersecurity, or SEO? At Managed Nerds, we'd love to give you a platform to share your insights with an audience of small businesses.

Content Guidelines

Please take a look at our content guidelines. Articles not in compliance will be rejected.

• Qualifications
  • We require an active LinkedIn profile that shows your experience in the topic you'd like to contribute in
    • We do allow interns to contribute provided you're in a paid internship in the respective field
  • You must be a resident of the United States
• Our Audience
  • Small Business Owners & Employees
• Acceptable Topics and Themes
  • Cybersecurity
  • Search Engine Optimization
  • Artificial Intelligence
• Voice and Tone
  • Voice: informative and authentic
  • Tone: nerdy and down-to-earth
  • Humor: witty humor is welcome
• Self-Promotion
  • We allow a backlink to your website or product
  • Ensure your article adds value to our audience - overly salesy content will be rejected
• Rights and Ownership
  • Once published, your article becomes Managed Nerds' property
    • This is an unpaid contribution, which is why we allow limited self-promotion and will allow you to publish the blog under your name
  • You may republish with permission, provided you mark our site as the authoritative source
  • Managed Nerds reserves the right to reject or remove content without prior notice
• Method and Technical Requirements
  • Start with research that keeps our audience in mind and ensure you're speaking to them like you would face-to-face
  • Ensure you link to sources used and do not plagiarize content
    • Ideally use 3-4 external links from high authority websites in your topic area
    • Clearly notate in your blog when you're citing a source either by highlighting the quoted text and linking out, or mentioning the source in the sentence with a link out to the source
    • Images should be copyright free
• Language & Formatting
  • Use active voice, not passive voice
  • Avoid repetition and keyword stuffing—this content is meant to be useful to our audience and something that's an easy, enjoyable read
  • Ensure you've run your content through spelling and grammar checks
  • Avoid tech jargon unless you have clearly explained it in your article
  • While expressing your opinion is allowed, we will reject any articles that are overly political or religious, as those are not the topics of our blog

How to Submit a Contributor Application

1. Sign up as a free member of our blog
2. Submit a contact form here - use the blog contribution drop down and, in the text, put a link to your article draft hosted on Google Drive