Web design decides whether a visitor trusts a business in the first three seconds. Our readers are business owners who build, buy and fix their own websites, and they want advice from people who design for a living. If that is you, we want to hear from you.
If you want to go deeper on this: websites that accept guest posts.
Covering business rather than web design? Use the business write for us page.
Short answer: yes, web design guest posts are open. What lands here is a real project with the decisions behind it: why that layout, what it did to conversions, what you would change now. Portfolio showcases with no lessons attached get turned down. One contextual link back to your own site is fine.
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I’m Lilach Bullock, and website advice is one of the most requested topics on this blog. Our audience includes entrepreneurs, small business owners, marketers and agencies who are actively building new sites, redesigning old ones, and trying to turn their website into a channel that wins them business.
What We’re Looking For
We publish web design content that helps our readers make better decisions about their own sites. That includes:
- Web design principles for conversion: layout, hierarchy, trust signals
- Website redesigns with before-and-after results
- Website builder and CMS comparisons based on real builds
- UX and accessibility improvements that changed a real metric
- Page speed and Core Web Vitals fixes explained for non-developers
- Design for mobile-first audiences and small screens
- Landing page design that converts, with the numbers
- Working with designers and agencies: briefs, budgets, red flags
What performs best on this blog is practical, specific content. Step-by-step guides, honest comparisons, real project examples and actionable frameworks consistently outperform trend roundups.
Want to share your insights on SEO? We’re also accepting guest posts on the topic.
What We Don’t Accept
- Portfolio showcases with no transferable lessons
- Content published elsewhere
- Promotional content disguised as a guide
- Anything written purely for link building with no genuine value to readers
What You Get
- Exposure to a highly engaged audience of business owners and marketers
- A quality backlink from an established domain
- Author bio with a link back to your website
- Social media promotion across our channels
Quick web design submission check
Your pitch is most useful when it can answer yes to these five points:
- The topic is specifically about web design, UX, site structure, website builders or landing pages.
- The article includes firsthand experience, a concrete example, original analysis or useful data.
- The angle is written for business owners deciding about their own site, not as an agency brochure.
- The draft is original and has a clear practical takeaway.
- You have read the full contributor guidelines before submitting.
How to Submit
All guest post submissions go through our main submission page. Please read the full guidelines before submitting:
We’re particularly interested in contributors who design, build or test websites hands-on and can share specific results, decisions and tools they have used on real projects.
Two free tools that save time here: the write for us finder lists more sites accepting guest posts in any niche, and the free backlink checker lets you check a site’s authority before you write for it.
The web design questions our readers ask most
Whether to rebuild or patch the site they have. Which builder will not box them in later. Why visitors arrive and leave without doing anything. What a redesign should actually cost. Whether their site is slow enough to hurt them. If you can answer one of those from experience, that is the pitch.
Pitches that get accepted
- A redesign with the real numbers, including the ones that disappointed you
- A conversion problem you diagnosed on a live site and fixed
- A builder or CMS comparison based on sites you actually shipped
- A page speed rescue explained so a non-developer can follow it
- A landing page teardown with the reasoning, not just the screenshots
What we do not publish
Agency self-promotion dressed up as advice. Trend listicles with no project behind them. Dark-pattern tactics that trade user trust for short-term clicks. Content that treats design as decoration rather than a business decision.
For a ready list in your own niche, try the free write for us finder; type the niche and it does the searching.
Frequently asked questions
What web design topics do you accept guest posts on?
Topics that work well on this site include: conversion-focused design, website builder and CMS comparisons, UX fixes with measured results, page speed for non-developers, landing page design, and working with designers as a small business. The bar for acceptance is original first-hand experience and a specific angle.
What web design topics don’t you accept?
Topics that get binned include: portfolio showcases with no lessons, generic trend roundups, dark-pattern tactics, and anything pitching an agency or tool without disclosing the relationship. If the pitch is a thinly veiled brochure, it won’t land.
Do you charge for guest posts?
For editorial guest posts (unpaid contributions from practitioners with genuine expertise) the answer is no. For sponsored articles, link placements, and brand partnerships, yes. The two are different processes. Editorial route: write-for-me page. Sponsored route: sponsored-articles page.
What word count do you publish?
Editorial posts: 1,500 to 3,500 words is the sweet spot. Shorter than 1,200 words rarely justifies the editorial time. Longer than 4,000 words is fine for pillar pieces. Sponsored articles: similar ranges, agreed up front during the placement conversation.
What is the typical turnaround time?
For editorial pitches: response within three to six weeks, sometimes faster. If you don’t hear back within eight weeks, the answer is a polite no. Sponsored articles: agreement to publication is typically one to three weeks.
Can I include backlinks in my guest post?
One contextual backlink to your own site or relevant resource is fine in editorial posts. More than that starts to feel link-driven rather than reader-driven. Sponsored articles include the agreed link package, arranged during the placement conversation.
Do you accept AI-generated guest post drafts?
No. AI-generated drafts get rejected at the editorial review stage. AI is a fine first-draft research tool. The actual writing has to be human.
Where do I send my pitch?
Editorial pitches go through the form on the write-for-me page. Sponsored placement inquiries go through the form on the sponsored-articles page. Brand partnership inquiries go through partner-with-us.
Related: where to send your pitch
- Editorial guest posts: write-for-me page
- Sponsored articles and link placements: sponsored-articles page
- Long-term brand partnerships: partner-with-us page
New here? Read what we publish and what we do not before you pitch. We also accept guest posts on small business.
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