I did it!
I’ve always wanted to be featured on the Huffington Post but never got around to doing it due to a lack of time.
Well, I finally got around to doing it, and my article on my lessons learned as a young online entrepreneur is now live on HuffPost Business.
If you haven’t heard of The Huffington Post, it’s one of the biggest publishing websites of the world.
Here’s how you can get published on HuffPost too.
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Update from Raelyn:
As of 19 Jan 2018, The Huffington Post announced that it will be shutting down its contributor blogging platform “to improve the editorial quality of the news site and cut down on unvetted reporting.”
Well, it’s not the end of the world. There are still other places to guest post and be featured at. For now, I have a free masterclass that you may be interested in:
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1. Before You Begin…
You need to have…
- Your author bio ready (a short one will do)
- Your headshot ready
Why would anyone even want to submit to The Huffington Post?
- A backlink to your website from one of the largest website of the world
- Bragging rights
- Credibility to you as an author and blogger
- More visitors & traffic to your website via your author bio, which will also help you get more subscribers (after all, The Huffington Post is huge)
2. Here’s How to Write an Article That Gets Accepted
The best way to ensure you get accepted is to write something that you’re proud of. Don’t write a half-past-six article and expect it to get through. If you write a great article, The Huffington Post will definitely publish it!
Some super helpful pointers that will help your article get accepted by HuffPost:
- The Huffington Post loves articles that are emotional, so write about personal experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
- Stick to a tried-and-tested format, such as how-to and list posts.
- Use an eye-catching title.
- Keep it around 800 words.
- Check out the most popular articles in your vertical of interest and see what does well.
It does not matter which vertical your first article is about, once you get accepted as a contributor, you’ll be able to publish articles to other verticals in The Huffington Post.
3. Send This Email to Arianna Huffington
Her email is arianna[at]huffingtonpost.com.
Alternatively, you can send it to the editors of the vertical of your interest. But if you can reach the boss herself and she doesn’t mind, why not?
I’m not too sure if it’s actually Arianna herself that answers all her emails, but it gets the job done anyway. 😛
Make sure you copy the article into the email (not in an attachment). This makes it easier for her to read your article and decide if it’s a yes or no.
This is the email I used, feel free to copy it. 🙂
Email Subject: Article Submission: (your article title)
Dear Arianna,
I hope that you’re doing well. Firstly thank you so much for creating The Huffington Post, I absolutely love it and read it almost everyday to ________!
I’m (your name), a (what you do) over at (your website). It would be an absolute honour if I could submit my article titled (your article title) to The Huffington Post.
I sincerely believe that it will benefit ____.
I’ve attached the full article and a short bio/ headshot/social media links in the PDF attached in case it’s needed!
I have also copied the full article below as well for easier persual.
Thank you so much for your time!
Sincerely,
(Your full name)—<Paste your full article here.>
Attach a PDF to your email too. The PDF should contain the article, your author bio, headshot and social media links.
4. What Happens After?
If accepted, Arianna will respond in the affirmative. I sent my email to Arianna 8th November, and she responded on 20th November.
On the same day, you’ll receive an invite to sign up to the Huffpost Blogger Community.
After you’ve signed up, you’ll have your very own account where you will publish your article on the site.
5. Just Do It.
Here’s proof that just FOLLOWING this article will get your article published:
It’s honestly much easier than you think, once you’ve someone like me to teach you how. 😛
Give the editor at least 4-6 weeks before checking in again if you don’t get a response.
The best way to avoid a dead response is to have an excellent article (see point 2). Just do it!
I hope this helps. Yes, you’re welcome. 😉
xx Raelyn 🙂
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Do they also accept travel related articles to be featured in their website?
Yes, they def do – do a quick Google search to see.
How…..fancy does the headshot have to be?
I don’t think they really care about how fancy your headshot will be 🙂
Hello Raelyn! I was curious as to whether you could read my article whenever you have time to give me insight on how interesting it is??
Helpful blog btw!
Hey Sasha! Thanks for your kind words about my blog. Yeah sure, join my fb group, tag me with the link there to let me read to make sure I catch it 🙂
Hi Raelyn!
Thanks for writing this. I actually sent an email to Arianna early December but didn’t hear back. This probably has to do with the fact that my article is over a 1000 words and is not really meant to be an emotional read. I sent my article to a number of international relations/politics magazines but again no replies. This was really quite demotivating because I spent a lot of time researching and writing the piece out. I have now submitted it on medium.com. If you have any comments on the piece or recommendations I would love to hear your thoughts!
Thank you!
Aishwarya
https://medium.com/@akrushn2/why-america-can-survive-a-trump-presidency-789537d2700a#.fwn5ofpc3
It’s a great piece, would have been great last month when everyone was all hyped up about the elections haha…
Haha I suppose. Thanks for your comments!
It’s very nice, I wish I had a post featured on Huffington Post but it was hard for me. Your tips help me so much and I’m waiting for my article approved from Arianna.
Thank you so much !
Glad to hear that, Pham Viet. Let me know how it goes!
Hi! I love your blog. Thanks for being so informative. One of my goals is to start writing and sharing my expertise online. I plan to try to get into huffington post but I want to try to get into other blogs first. Do you recommend any blogs I might be able to get into that would be a little easier? I am interested in talking about “Mobile First Web Design” and how important it is, tutorials ect. What do you think?
Hey Devin, thank you for your kind words! You can start with Medium, that’s definitely much easier to get onto than HuffPost! 🙂
Hi Tan! Do you accept Guest post or do you have any service for building backlink?
No, I don’t accept guest posts currently. And I don’t have a service for backlinks either.
Great article, helped me a lot. Thank u so much dear.
You’re welcome, Hyma 🙂
Hey Raelyn,
Hope you are having a good time there. It’s been a week since I’ve started reading your blog.
I followed the article guidelines closely, prepared a very well-written article for home decor niche. I emailed Arianna yesterday, she replied the same day.
She now works for Thrive Global, so she asked me to publish at Medium. I did. Hope this updated information will help many of us.
Yes! Thanks for the update Adnan 🙂
Hey Raelyn!
It was such a helpful post! Loved it. Thank you so much!
You’re welcome, Julia!
I had found this article a while back and somehow misplaced it and I’m so excited I found it again. I’m wondering how up-to-date this information is as I’ve recently seen in another article that Arianna is no longer at HP and that the process is different. Could you confirm this is still the best way to get published on HP? Thanks!
No, go through HuffPost’s contact form! That’s the best way now.
Hi Raelyn,
Thanks a lot for this guide. I basically thought getting my article published on Huffington Post was near to impossible.
Take care & thanks as it was really helpful. 😀
You’re welcome!
Hey Raelyn,
Congrats on getting an article on Huffington Post. That’s quite an achievement.
I’ve always gone the indirect route to get articles published via sites like HARO but will def look at your method!
Is the HP backlink ‘do follow’?
Unfortunately not, but I find that its still worth it to get onto Huffpost for credibility’s sake. 🙂
Hey Raelyn,
Just want to say I love you for writing this post.
You know why?
This is not the first time I’ve landed on an article about how to get published on HP, but this is actually the first time an article gave me real hope to even give it a shot.
Not sure if I’ll ever hit that sweet jackpot, but hey, well done you!
Repinned it without a second thought.
God bless.
Thanks, Hamz!
do they accept app review articles?
Probably not. People have a hard enough time being accepted for normal articles, let alone app reviews.
Do you get a link back to your site?
Hey Willis! Unfortunately not!
Thanks for sharing and for making it simple and doable. Much appreciated!
You’re welcome!
Wow, this was really helpful, but theirs this great article of mine that i need published on Huffingtonpost.com.au urgently, it’s for my school project, if you can help me publish through your own huffingtonpost account, i’lld be soo greatfull, trust me, it’s an amazing article, would be helpful for their community. Please respond me with your email so i can forward it in details to you. I really do appreciate your gesture.
Nope, so sorry but you’ll have to publish it on your own –
Thank you. I was looking for a way to publish an article and yours was quite clear and prominently placed I did not need to look any further.
Thank you.
You’re welcome!