Write For Us – Blogging Guidelines

Stackify Blogging Guidelines

Stackify’s website and blog attract more than 1,000,000 monthly visits. We aim to provide high-quality content that is valuable to the developer community. We’re always looking for contributors to share relevant information to our users. If you have technical writing skills and knowledge of the software development industry, we’d love to hear from you.

Please take some time to review our guidelines. It will give you a better understanding of the type of content, tone, and format that we want to publish.

Writing Best Practices

Well, you’re the expert. So, let’s hear what you have to say.

Join our community of over 100 contributing writers in providing fellow tech junkies with valuable high-quality content. Our readers come to Stackify bloggers like yourself for answers to today’s hot topic questions in technology. They’re looking to be educated, informed, and entertained. Here are some of the reasons our contributing authors choose to write for our audience:

  • Nearly 1,000,000 monthly users
  • 90,000 backlinks
  • Over 13,000 Keywords ranked on the first page of Google
  • 650+ blogs published

The most successful blogs usually include the following best practices:

Article Title:

  • Include the target keyword in the title (preferably the first word)
  • Try to include keywords such as Tutorial, Code Examples, Tips, and numbered lists
  • Try to include the value they’ll get from reading the article
  • You can take a look at our other blogs here.

First paragraph: 

  • Include the main keyword
  • Grab the readers attention
  • Present the pain point
  • Address the benefit of solving the problem
  • Short teaser on how to solve the problem

Content/Body

  • Use short paragraphs/lots of whitespace/bullet points when possible
  • Try to include a relevant image or code snippets every 4-5 paragraphs to break up the text
  • Include 3-5 internal Stackify links (relevant posts or pages)
    • Internal and external links, as well as their anchor text, are strong signals that tell Google what you’re writing about and the associated content that you value.
  • Include at least 2 high domain authority external links.
  • Use Moz Bar to get authority rankings.
  • Avoid linking to other APM providers like New Relic, Datadog, or AppDynamics
  • When writing about code, include snippets.
  • Give industry insights and data to back up your points.

Tools

  • HemingwayApp – Readability, grade level, sentence complexity
  • Grammarly – Spellcheck on steroids
  • Moz Bar – Check domain and page authority

Headings

Try to always use headings. We use H1, H2, H3, and H4 headings in our posts. Be sure to properly set these styles. People tend to read the first few sentences and then skim blogs looking for a header that addresses their problem. Once they identify that header they take a deeper dive.

  • H1 – The title of the article
  • H2 – The main sections of the article.
  • H3 – Sub sections of an H2
  • H4 – Less used sub sections of an H3

Keep in Mind

  • It helps to have a good understanding of SEO, but always prioritize good writing over SEO tactics.
  • Sometimes we have edits or suggestions but we’ll never post without your consent.

So, what’s the next step?

Email us and let us know what you’d like to write about and why you think it’s a good fit. It’s always a good idea to link to a post or two on your own blog that you’re particularly proud of. (If you have a blog, that is. It’s not a requirement.)

Because we have such a large community of writers we have to be strategic about what content we can take and what content we can’t because it would duplicate work another writer has already done. We will most likely provide you with keywords we have identified as having the best chance of success. Please stick to these topics to make sure your blog gets in front of the people who need it.

Thanks, and welcome aboard!

A Little Bit About Us

After one too many unexpected late night code fires, we went searching for a set of application performance management tools to help us put an end to it. What we found told us what was broken, but lacked the ability to tell us why our applications failed, or how to maintain them and prevent the potential dumpster fire. So, we built Retrace and Prefix to do exactly that. From pre-production to deployment, it is our belief that when our 1,200 customers spend less time fighting technology they spend more time releasing it, and those new applications make the world a better place for all of us.