Write for Us: Guest Posts & Sponsored Posts

Who should write for montclairnewjersey.com

The best contributors are people who do the work in Montclair and can explain it plainly. That usually means one of these:

• Home-service pros — plumbers, electricians, HVAC techs, roofers, landscapers, masons, painters, and remodelers who work on Montclair's older housing stock and know what actually goes wrong in a 1920s colonial or a Victorian on a hill.
• Local professionals — real estate agents, attorneys, accountants, home inspectors, insurance agents, estate-sale companies, and movers who can walk readers through a process that is specific to Essex County and New Jersey.
• Shops, restaurants, and studios on Bloomfield Avenue, Church Street, Upper Montclair, Walnut Street, and Watchung Plaza with something useful to share beyond an advertisement.
• Nonprofits, community groups, and residents with firsthand knowledge of a neighborhood, a township process, or a local institution.

Two ways to publish

1. Editorial guest posts

An editorial guest post is an article we publish because it helps Montclair readers. There is no fee to pitch one, and payment cannot buy one. You write it (or send an outline and we talk it through), we edit it, and it runs under your name with a short author bio. Because it is editorial, we decide the final headline, the edits, and whether and where it links. A link to your business in your bio is common when the article is good; it is never guaranteed, and we do not accept pitches that exist only to carry a link.

2. Sponsored posts

A sponsored post is a paid article about your business or your trade. It is the right choice if you want certainty: the article will run, it will include the links you asked for, and it will stay published. It is part of the same local package described on the Sponsor page, alongside the homepage sponsored slot and the recommended listing on a trade page, and it can be bought on its own. Sponsored posts are labeled Sponsored at the top of the article, every paid link carries rel="sponsored", and they meet the same editorial standards as everything else on the site. Pricing is by quote; we do not publish a rate card.

Topics that fit

Most readers arrive here with a practical question about living in, owning a home in, or doing business in Montclair. Articles that answer those questions with local specifics do well. Good starting points:

• Older-home maintenance and repair. Knob-and-tube wiring, cast-iron and clay sewer lines, slate roofs, radiators and boilers, oil tanks, lead paint, and basement water — the problems that come with Montclair's housing stock. Our older-home maintenance guide shows the level of detail we like.
• Project costs and how to hire. What a job really involves in Montclair, what drives the price, and what to ask a contractor. If you cite a cost range, tell us where it comes from. See how to choose a contractor for the tone.
• Permits and township process. What needs a permit, how inspections work, historic district considerations, and how to avoid delays. Start from our building permit guide and add what you know from doing it.
• Buying, selling, and moving. Property taxes, preparing an older home for sale, downsizing, estates, and relocating — for example our property taxes guide and moving to Montclair guide.
• Yards, trees, and outdoor space. Mature street trees, drainage on sloped lots, native plantings, and seasonal work like leaf removal and snow.
• Local food, arts, and community. Written from real experience, not a list scraped from review sites.

Topics we decline

Gambling, CBD and cannabis promotions, crypto and trading schemes, payday or high-interest loans, adult content, essay writing services, and generic national articles with "Montclair" pasted into the headline. We also decline articles about a trade the writer does not work in, and anything that disparages a named local competitor.

Editorial standards

Every article on montclairnewjersey.com, paid or unpaid, has to meet these standards:

• Original and exclusive. Not published anywhere else, including your own site, and not republished elsewhere after it runs here.
• Written for Montclair. The article should be clearly about this town: its housing, its neighborhoods, its township rules, its seasons. If it would read the same with any town's name in it, it is not ready.
• Accurate and sourced. Cost figures, regulations, and statistics need a source we can check. We edit or remove claims we cannot verify.
• Useful first. An article about a service can mention your business, but it has to be worth reading for someone who never hires you. Save the sales pitch for your author bio.
• No fake social proof. No invented reviews, testimonials, ratings, awards, or "best in Montclair" claims you cannot back up.
• Human-reviewed. You can use whatever tools help you write, but a person who knows the subject has to stand behind every sentence. Thin, spun, or obviously machine-generated drafts are declined.
• Reasonable links. Links must point to genuinely relevant pages. Links to your own business are limited, and we may add links to our own guides where they help the reader.
• Our edit is final. We edit for clarity, accuracy, length, and house style, and we can update or unpublish an article later if the information goes out of date or a link starts pointing somewhere it should not.

Disclosure policy

Readers should always know when money is involved. Here is how we handle it:

• Sponsored posts carry a visible "Sponsored" label at the top of the article, and the author bio names the business that paid for it.
• Paid links — in a sponsored post, a sponsored listing, or the homepage sponsored slot — are marked rel="sponsored", which is how search engines are told a link was paid for.
• Editorial guest posts are unpaid. If we ever learn a contributor was paid by a third party to place links in an "editorial" article, we relabel it as sponsored or remove it.
• Our own ads. This site is built and run by Rank Easy Digital, an SEO agency. The Rank Easy ads you see across the site are house ads, labeled "Advertisement," and their links are marked sponsored as well.

We never sell a disguised placement. If an article is paid for, it says so.

How to pitch

For an editorial guest post, email info@montclairnewjersey.com with the subject line "Guest post pitch" and include:

1. A working headline and three or four sentences on what the article covers.
2. Why it matters to Montclair readers specifically — the local angle.
3. Who you are, what you do, and how long you have worked in the area.
4. Your website, and the link you would like in your author bio.
5. A draft if you have one. An outline is fine for a first pitch.

For a sponsored post, use the request form on the Sponsor page and tick "Article on montclairnewjersey.com with a backlink." Add a note about your business and the topic you have in mind. Sending the form does not book a slot or charge a card; we reply with a quote.

What happens next

A person reads every pitch. If the topic fits, we reply with any changes to the angle and a target length, then edit the draft once it arrives and send it back for your approval before it goes live. If the topic does not fit, we tell you rather than leaving the pitch unanswered. We do not promise a publishing date for editorial guest posts; sponsored posts are scheduled when the quote is agreed.

Not a Montclair business?

This page is for local contributors. If you are a brand or agency looking for a guest post on a site that covers your topic, Rank Easy Digital handles that through its guest post service: a person reviews the topic first, then proposes an editorial article on a relevant Rank Easy site or managed outreach to a publication that fits.

Frequently asked questions