Guest Posting Guidelines by Zorz Studios

Thank you for your interest in submitting sponsored content* to the website and community of Zorz Studios, a Manhattan-based boutique studio offering alluring and daring fashion, commercial, beauty, and wedding photography and cinematography. We’ve built several successful affiliate partnerships and hope to include you! Please review the following guest posting guidelines to see if they may work out.

* We absolutely welcome non-commercial collaborations, too! If you’re a makeup artist, event planner, wardrobe stylist, etc., we can cross-promote each other at no cost!

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Our Offering: Top Discoverability / Search Ranking

Zorz Studios has been online since 2006 and has an average of 7,000 monthly visits with over 30,000 pageviews. We only started publishing valuable content in 2017, with just several articles written in-house. Yet, their thorough research and remarking resourcefulness, combined with proper SEO optimization, quickly brought them to the top of Google searches and kept them there, mainly on the first page. Some of the examples are:

We then started allowing guest posting with affiliated links, and a need for guest posting guidelines arose. Here are the first few, with an instant success:

Guest Posting Guidelines by Zorz Studios
Guest Posting Guidelines by Zorz Studios
Guest Posting Guidelines by Zorz Studios
Guest Posting Guidelines by Zorz Studios
Guest Posting Guidelines by Zorz Studios
Guest Posting Guidelines by Zorz Studios
Guest Posting Guidelines by Zorz Studios
Guest Posting Guidelines by Zorz Studios
Guest Posting Guidelines by Zorz Studios
Guest Posting Guidelines by Zorz Studios
Guest Posting Guidelines by Zorz Studios

Industries and Topics of Interest

We are a photography and videography studio. Topics within these areas are of immediate interest to us. However, we already cover many overlapping or closely related industries in our social media. The following are great examples:

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  • digital and fantasy art
  • art and culture (especially painting, ballet, performing art, street art, graffiti, tattoo, and body art)
  • design (interior, graphic)
  • families and kids (spending quality time, developing taste and aesthetics)
  • relationships (dating, bonding via hobbies and adventures, firing up and revitalizing, boosting performance)
  • events (planning, decor, DIY, entertainment, venues, advice)
  • fashion (couture lines or anything associated with and helping photo sessions)
  • small business tools and strategies (anything that business owners like us can benefit from)
  • travel (with the picture-perfect orientation or adventurous exploring)

We are NOT accepting content related to:

  • gambling and online casinos
  • CBD, recreational drugs
  • Forex and similar trading platforms
  • cryptocurrencies

Currently Sought Articles

Below are the article topics for inspiration, readily acceptable if the criteria are met (see below). Their variations or topics within the areas noted above will be gladly considered.

  • Maternity Sessions (when best to shoot, what to wear, where to rent, how to prepare yourself, which props/personal items to consider using, etc.)
  • How to Photograph Yourself for Dating Sites
  • Best NYC Photo Spots for Family Portraits
  • What to Wear to a Family Photoshoot
  • How to Make the Best Surprise Proposal (Or Not Ruin It)
  • Building Modeling Portfolio
  • Common Fears and Concerns of a Boudoir Session
  • Couples Boudoir
  • Creative Boudoir Gifting Ideas
  • How Pinterest Can Help You Prepare For Your Session
  • Maternity Boudoir
  • No Such Thing as Too Big For Boudoir Sessions

Guest Posting Guidelines

Length

The minimum word count is 600, but 1,000-2,000 is recommended for quality results. The text should be structured into paragraphs and grouped by several headings.

Tone

Nothing formal. It may be authoritative and persuasive but in a friendly and casual way. Humor and creativity are welcomed, too.

Although the article can have multiple links, it should not be staffed with them. Ideally, one link per 3-4 paragraphs. The more scattered, the better. It is recommended to mix sponsored links with regular, organic links. Note that sponsorship fees apply to each sponsored link.

All sponsored links will have do-follow and index attributes. Currently, they are not marked as sponsored but this may change in the future.

Placement

For new full articles, we offer two options:

  • featured placement on the main Resources and Advice page and the navigation menu
  • posting in the dedicated Guest Posts area

We make the placement area decision based on the topic’s relevance to our website (see “Industries and Topics” below), our perception of its value to our visitors, and the thoroughness of the topic.

We can also add links and short content (phrases, sentences, paragraphs) to an existing article as long as they blend in organically.

Duration

The articles and links are placed for two years. A discounted renewal rate will be offered if needed.

Content Preferences

There are a few more guest posting guidelines that we’d suggest besides fitting our website’s realm. They are not mandatory but encouraged:

  • As noted in the beginning, the key to the first-page ranking was the article’s thoroughness and scope. Short pieces barely scratching the surface with common knowledge can be accepted, but no prominent SERP should be expected.
  • The content should be human-edited and unique. Mere AI writing or spinning is unacceptable, as it hurts our site’s ranking… We use tools to identify AI or plagiarized content that will be rejected outright. We do not need robotic content! AI writing is helpful but only on a bare basis, requiring heavy human editing to pass the tests.
  • Ideally, your article’s wording would draw at least some parallels with photography or videography, mentioning some references to the field. It does not need to be direct.
  • Readability and grammar matter for ranking and reputation. We are pretty academic about our own articles and would prefer to keep that bar raised.
  • Content writing with SEO optimization is the author’s responsibility. We use WordPress and have third-party SEO tools, so we can grant you Author access rights to fine-tune your copy and take advantage of those tools. Your article will be saved as a draft for us to publish once approved.
  • If your article is SEO-optimized, please advise of your targeted SEO keyword(s) so we can set proper meta and image data for the best optimization. When we publish, we strive to rank 80+ with the RankMath for a selected keyword(s).
  • Alternatively, we could still accept your article as-is, without you having to optimize it, or we can edit/polish your copy and SEO-optimize it for you for an additional $30-50 fee.

Fees (or Lack Thereof)

The fees are per sponsored link, not per article. Their amount depends on several factors and is typically $60-75 per link for two years (either backlink insertion or guest post). If paying with PayPal, an additional 3% fee is mandatory. This processing fee is waived when paying by credit card via our studio invoice service or Zelle.

We understand some clients have low budgets, but haggling won’t help. Instead, kindly reach out to websites with lower DA and visits.

Cross-promotional content directly from our industry peers (makeup artists, body painters, decorators, event planners, wardrobe stylists, dancers, performers, etc.) is warmly welcomed and is free of charge. We’ll be happy to guest-post your article, rank it high in Google searches, and bring traffic to your website! The content preferences (see above) and guest posting guidelines still apply. Reach out to discuss this, please!

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