All authors are given credit for their writings and a link to their web site and / or email address with detailed contact information at the bottom, authors can also add a short bio to the bottom of the article. Published works provide name recognition for the author. Links to your website help it immensely in search engine rankings, and bring in additional traffic to your web site.

The Family & Marriage Counseling Directory is one of the most prominent sites in the search engines for its subject matter. Often times, members of the press have come to me after visiting The Family & Marriage Counseling Directory, to ask for names of therapists who may be interested in public speaking or appearing on television shows. They look at this website because it is one of the top ranked sites in the search engines. That same prominence also makes its links more valuable.

Where Would My Article Be Published?

All articles are linked to from the homepage of The Family & Marriage Counseling Directory. We are also very fortunate to have started a new website in February, 2007, called Talk About Marriage.

Talk About Marriage is a public forum that provides even more opportunity for therapists to gain recognition. Talk About Marriage grabs the attention of many visitors to our site who are still too reluctant to contact a therapist. Many post anonymously on the site about their problems and receive feedback from other visitors.

Therapists can register on Talk About Marriage and link to their websites from their profiles, as well as add contact information and links in the signatures of their posts.

We also have the new Talk About Marriage Yahoo! Group. The Yahoo! Group is similar to a mailing list where people can talk about relationship problems via email. The Yahoo! Group has an online base where people can read older posts, view links to related websites and control their group preferences.

There are three places that your article will be published:

• The Family & Marriage Counseling Directory
• Talk About Marriage
• Talk About Marriage Yahoo! Group

What Are the Article Requirements?

There are no length requirements, although thesis length papers have been difficult for us to publish in the past due to the formatting involved in changing them to html. Most are usually 2 - 5 pages. Articles must be well written, and original. Original meaning written by the person claiming to be the author and not published elsewhere on the internet at the time it is submitted. It's acceptable to publish the work on another website as soon as it is published on ours, it's also acceptable for the work to have been previously published in print.

Articles will be reviewed by the Webmaster, and there is no guarantee that your article will be published.

How Do I Submit an Article?

There are two ways to submit an article:

• Register on Talk About Marriage - this is the best way because you can edit and control exactly how the article is presented. Post the article in the "Articles" section. It will not appear until it is reviewed and approved.
• Send the article via email to , either included in the body of the email, or in Microsoft Word format.

Thank you for considering The Family & Marriage Counseling Directory as a place to publish your writing.

Chris Hartwell, MSW