To publish and manage your articles on the OutBuro.com site, the Author must be an active Yearly/Monthly site member.
You are submitting your content for review and potential acceptance. There is no guarantee. If not approved we’ll do our best effort to suggest changes to make it better fit the site members and target audience.
Articles published on OutBüro’s publishing platform remain your work. You own the rights to any original articles you publish.
The article you publish may be published on our own site as well.
Consider becoming an OutBüro influencer/affiliate and drive more member signups and build a potential residual side hustle revenue stream for yourself, your organization, or your business. Check out the Influencer/Affiliate Income Estimator tool.
Your article will have Your Author Block at the bottom and Your Name at the top both linking directly to your OutBuro.com profile page.
Consider joining and/or creating a group about you, your business/organization, cause, area of focus, interests, area of knowledge, etc.
For those desiring to use some features of OutBuro with a User/Fake name, and desiring to submit articles, the current best way to approach this is with two Yearly/Monthly membership accounts.
Your articles can be about promoting your, study findings/overview, interests, essays, short stories, story series, opinion, editorial, business and/or service/product offerings, informational, entertaining, educational, announcements, press releases, general awareness, health, community spotlights, PSA, and other similar forms of content. In other words, pretty much anything you believe our members might enjoy or just darn need to know.
You can request the deletion of your article from our platform at any time.
OutBüro can distribute your site approved content typically through members’ social media sharing, annotate your content (e.g., to highlight that your views may not be the views of OutBüro), display and or add links to related content, occasionally minor edits to improve search engine optimization, clarify its relation to the targeted LGBTQ community and if/when we choose to add advertising on pages where your content appears.
Expect that your articles will be publicly available with at minimum OutBüro Free membership and can be shared to other social platforms by any site member.
Organic search – Even though it is a membership site, the site articles are open to standard indexing sites like Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.
First, on your profile be sure you have uploaded a headshot and filled in the Short Bio field. Together, these will be displayed on every article you publish as your author block at the bottom of your articles.
Also, be sure under preferences your profile is set to use your Real Name or the pen name of your choice. This will be how your profile is displayed throughout the site. If needed you are welcome to have more than one membership account.
Lastly, in order to publish on OutBüro, your account must be set to “Author”. You may submit your first article without yet being an approved Author or you may use the Contact Us form to request your account to be changed to an “Author” prior to submitting. In either case, we’ll review and change your account if approved.
Make Money with OutBüro
Consider being an Affiliate/Influencer. Your other accounts (if you have more than one) can be your Level 1 affiliate. Check out the Affiliate/Influencer Income Estimator. We are close to bringing an Author Payment feature to the site so that based on performance and/or other factors authors, journalists, content creators, and content marketers can earn in two ways. Check out the Affiliate/Influencer Income Estimator.
It may be slightly edited to improve the layout, SEO (search engine optimization), and other factors.
As with all content on the site, even after publication, has the potential to be administratively moderated, and all content may be reported by community members is believed to not be in compliance with the community standards and policies.
Adding an Article to OutBüro
While logged into your OutBüro Yearly/Monthly Member account, under the News, Articles, and Resources (blog) tab, choose Submit Article.
Title: Enter an article title that is catchy, includes pertinent SEO key words and under 50 characters is ideal.
Article Body: We recommend composing your article in a word processor tool like Microsoft Office or LibreOffice along with using a tool such as Gramerly.com. Have any links already formatted within the article body? When your article is ready, copy and paste it into the Article Body section. We recommend adding an image or two to the article. You may also link to videos from popular video content sites such as YouTube and Vimeo.
Click the keyboard image in the format bar to extend for more options.
Click the little icon in the lower right and drag to make the area larger or smaller as you like.
Category: Choose at least one category from the drop-down menu that best matches the genre of your article. You may choose more than one category, yet do so judiciously and purposefully. Selecting all categories will not help exposure and actually diminish search engine optimization results. If you believe additional categories should be added, we are happy to consider adding more. Go ahead and choose one that is present and then submit a Support ticket requesting an additional category to be considered.
Tags: Add a 1-4 tags that summarize the body of content separated by commas. Example: Gay Film Director, Gay Screenwriter, Lesbian Producer, Transgender Actor, Queer Film Cast, LGBTQ Movie, Gay Short Film, etc.
Article Excerpt: Add a short summary of the article, try to keep it under 150 characters.
FeaturedImages: Upload an image to be the article feature image. Featured Images should be at least 1200 pixels wide and 800 pixels high and no larger than 3 megs. It should be either .JPG or .PNG file format. This is YOUR marketing billboard. Make it “POP”.
Click the Featured Image button.
Use the standard file manager on your devices as you normally do.
Notes to Site Admin: Optionally provide any notes to the site admin/content reviewer you desire about this specific posting. This is not a replacement for the Support ticket if experiencing technical issues. This WILL NOT be included in the article posting.
Submit: To save/submit your article for administrative review and approval click the Submit button. Else, click the Save Draft to return to your work at a future date.
