GBE Guest Post Collaborate

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GBE Guest Post Collaborate
About: 

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Scope of Guest Posts on GBE website

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Guest topics will be in UK English

• But may also have translations
• Layout to be determined, possible two columns side by side

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Editorial Control

• GBE Green Building Encyclopaedia has its scope, but this is broad and expansive
• All Guest Posts need to be related to this scope or it is irrelevant to GBE existing users
• It needs to be educational and informative and aspire to improve our situation
• Occasionally there are positives and negatives, the positive must outweigh the negatives
• Low cost alone is not a positive

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Geography

• GBE’s Focus is UK
• Since many good product available in the UK are manufactured in the EU we extend this to EU manufacturers
• For International products to be included requires the products to be significantly better performance than those available in the UK and EU
• GBE would consider developing other websites to support other continents
• GBE will not promote cheaper copies of OEM’s products
• GBE promote innovative products that meet HERACEY™ below

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Guest Posts should engage with one of more of the following overarching issues:

• GBE’s Definition of Sustainability: HERACEY™
• Healthy
• Environmental
• Resourceful
• Appropriate
• Competent
• Effective
• Ethical
• Yardstick (means to measure or benchmark)

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The topic of Guest posts must be related to:

• Environmental & Social: (Must address some positive issues/criteria)
  • Development
  • Infrastructure
  • Surveying
  • Construction
  • Buildings
  • Structures
  • Services
  • Interiors
  • Landscapes
  • Occupation & Facilities Management
  • Maintenance & Repair
  • Refurbishment
  • Other issues will be considered on application
• Economic:
  • Wider Value Engineering opportunities
  • But we are not interested in:
    • Cheap-only products
    • Individual cost cutting
    • Individual cheaper substitution
    • Plastics unless they offer effectiveness to other parts of the adjacent materials
    • Chemicals and chemical recipes
    • Hazardous materials
      • SVHC
      • SIN listed
      • On other violet lists

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Guest Posts may take the format of any of the following:

• Information and Education:
  • Case Study
  • Evidence Based Case Study
    • Performance Calculations
    • Value Engineering
    • Carbon Effectiveness
  • Questions & Answers
  • Problems & Solutions
  • Articles without product promotion (but see Promotion below)
  • Design Method
  • Calculation Method
  • Equations
  • Calculators
  • Data Sets
  • Manufacturing Methods
  • Building Method
  • Method Statement
  • Jargon Busters: Technical or Architectural Philosophy
  • Checklist: Design, Process, etc.
  • Issue Paper
  • Brainstorming a project
  • Brain Dumping a Subject
  • Others on application
• Promotion
  • Problem Solving Product, Accessory, System promotion
  • Educational Articles with Problem Solving Product promotion
  • Book Promotion
  • Publication Promotion
  • Service Promotion
  • Consultancy Promotion
  • Company Promotion
  • Software or App Promotion
  • CPD Promotion
  • Others on Application
• ICT Formats
  • Seminar: PowerPoint, PPT or PPTX or equivalent on application
  • Webinar Video: on GBE, YouTube, Vimeo, or provider’s website
  • Podcast Audio: on GBE, On other sites with links
  • PDF Attachments for downloading or reading on line
    • Product information or specifications must not be locked to prevent writing project specifications from the content
  • PNG Images
  • Datasets: Excel, Calculators, Equations, (No locked cells, sheets or files)
    • HTML off-site data interrogation codes not permitted on GBE Website
    • But will consider for other dedicated websites
  • No embedded code for interrogating or gathering anything
  • Others on application
• Any combination of the above or others on application

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Links to other websites

GBE will not link to website pages which:

• are not illustrated with relevant images
• have place holders for images that take too long to appear, if at all
• have many adverts by other providers
• have many adverts that do not relate to the content of the page
• Have adverts that generate income, but add nothing to the page

GBE will link to website pages which:

• Add to the topic of the GBE page of the outbound link

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All Guest Posts

• Will have their own dedicated page
  • With their own long URLs and Short URL page number
  • For inbound links
  • In bound links to be Rel: DoFollow (Reciprocal link(s) required)
• (H1) Heading to suit subject (ideally 4 words maximum)
• Dedicated topical image(s) (PNG provided by guest)
• 1/3 width column for text 1/3 column for image 1/3 column for links (GBE standard format)
  • About or Index or both (H2)
  • Text/Image/Links
  • Footer: © source, author and date
  • (2 HTML links: Company website, Author website)
  • Outbound link to be Rel: DoFollow (Reciprocal link(s) required)
  • May include Download files (PDFs)
• 2/3 width column for text and images 1/3 column for links (GBE Second format)
• 3^rd Column will be for GBE to link all relevant pages to and from the Guest Post.
  • Page or Post Topic Group navigation pages (H2) (HTML links to Navigation pages)
  • Pages or Posts (HTML to individual page) (currently >2000 pages to choose from)
• SEO optimized, enabled by Yeost (Green traffic light ideally, orange at worst if green is impossible)
• Comments enabled (managed, edited or filtered by GBE)
• Others on application

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No cost:

• Read and assess the topic
• GBE Initial Assessment Yes, Possible or No for GBE,
• If No:
  • No further progress, inform Agent
• If Possible:
  • Review and suggest improvements, via Agent
  • Reconsider improved Guest Post

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Costs include:

• if Yes…..
  • Agree 1/3 or 2/3 page block format
  • Processing time to add page or posts
  • Add Guest Post text and reset format to GBE page format
  • Add any images and files to media library and to pages or posts
  • Add links to website and author
  • 1/3 column right hyperlinks to other pages of GBE website
  • SEO of page, images and files
  • Outbound links: Default Rel: DoFollow
• Initial cost; £250 for 12 months
• Annual renewal:
  • Educational: None
  • Promotional: £125/annum

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Reduced Costs

• Presence on the GBE website can be at a lower cost
• Less time is available so no additional page with Author’s details
• Less time to link to the guest page from many other relevant GBE pages
• Initial cost: £125 for 12 months
• Renewal cost: £125 annually

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Optional extra costs:

• If the Guest post is to be written by GBE
• Receive all relevant information
• Read and assess the topic
• GBE Initial Assessment Yes or No for GBE, if Yes:
• Write Article
• Send for review
• Edit Article
• Initial Cost: £500
• Annual renewal:
  • Educational: None
  • Promotional: £125/annum

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Optional GBE Collaborate Services:

There is a full range of additional services and a budget calculator on GBE website

https://GreenBuildingEncyclopaedia.uk/advertise/collaborate/services

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© GBE NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan
31st March 2020 – 2nd April 2020

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© GBE GBC GBL NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan **
2nd April 2020 – 17th February 2021

GBE Guest Post Collaborate
Images:

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Guest Posts on GBE A01 BRM 020420 PDF

Guest Posts on GBE A01 BRM 020420 DOCX

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GBEIncubatorProductScheduleA01BRM161215 (PDF)

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© GBE NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan *
2nd April 2020

GBE Guest Post Collaborate
See Also:

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GBE Templates

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© GBE NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan *
2nd April 2020

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