Write for Us
Write for us: yes, you.
We saved you a byline.
Thank you for considering Express Analytics a good home for your ideas, genuinely. We treat guest posts as a collaboration: you bring the firsthand insight on AI, analytics, and data; we bring careful editing, readers who actually do this work, and proper promotion when it ships.
And since you're wondering: no, we don't pay for guest posts. But we don't charge for them either.
The audience
Who reads Express Analytics
Analytics practitioners
data scientists, analysts, ML engineers who can smell a recycled listicle from three scrolls away!
Marketing leaders
such as CMOs and growth/retention marketers deciding what to do with their data
Data-curious teams
evaluating AI, and customer analytics right now
What's in it for you
Fair question. Here's the honest answer:
The fit
Who we're looking for
Fair question. Here's the honest answer:
A public professional presence
LinkedIn, a personal site, or a newsletter we can peek at
Firsthand experience
you actually built the model, ran the campaign, cleaned the data at 2 a.m.
Pride in the work
you'd happily share the published piece on your own channels
A business email
pitches from gmail/ hotmail/ aol/ yahoo or any personal address are filtered out automatically. It's not personal; it's a spam thing.
If you just nodded four times, keep scrolling. We already like you.
Evergreen
The stuff that stays useful
Trending
What's moving right now
Seasonal & timely
the stuff that stays useful
Got something that doesn't fit any lane? Pitch it anyway. The best pitches are often the ones we didn't think to ask for.
The one question our editors ask:
Did this writer add something only they could add: their own data, their own experience, their own judgment? If the answer is no, we decline the piece. That's the whole test. (Our editors are very good at it.) If a draft reads like it could've come from anyone (or anything), our editors will pass. They read every submission with exactly that question in mind.
Totally fine:
- Using AI to research, brainstorm angles, or outline
- Using AI to tighten the grammar and structure of your draft
- Using AI to summarize sources you've genuinely read
Not fine:
- Submitting a draft that's substantially AI-generated, lightly seasoned or not
- AI-invented statistics, quotes, or citations, this one is an instant, permanent goodbye
- A piece with no insight a model couldn't have produced on its own
If you just nodded four times, keep scrolling. We already like you.
The guidelines
Guest posting guidelines at a glance
We love:
- Firsthand stories: the project, the mistake, the fix
- Frameworks backed by real data, with sources linked
- Actionable steps a reader can use this week
- 1,600–2,000 words that earn their length
- A short FAQ at the end (readers love it; so do search engines)
We avoid:
- Product pitches wearing an article costume
- Press releases (truly, please, no)
- Recycled listicles and "Top 10 Tools" round-ups
- Claims without sources: "studies show" is not a citation
- Anything previously published anywhere, including your own blog
Our link policy
Short and sweet, because this is the section everyone scrolls to first (we see you):
- A dofollow link to your site or LinkedIn. Branded anchor only: your name or your company, not "best analytics software 2026."
- Your bio-link domain should have an authority score of 35+ and a spam score under 5%.
- In-article links are welcome when they genuinely help the reader: sources, research, tools. Promotional links get quietly removed; no hard feelings, but no exceptions either.
- No affiliate links, no client landing pages, no paid placements, no link swaps. We don't sell links and we don't trade them.
The process
How to submit a guest post
If you haven't heard from us in 10 business days, consider it a pass, and pitch the piece elsewhere with our blessing.
Pitch Your Idea
Tell us what you want
to write.
Show us the angle, not just the topic, and why our readers should care.
Submit ONCE, via this form only. Pitches sent by email, by LinkedIn DM, by carrier pigeon, or by all of the above simultaneously are rejected — duplicates make a mess of our queue and slow everyone down, including you. One form, one pitch, one reply. Deal?
The fine print
Contributor terms
The work is yours, unpublished anywhere, and you have rights to every image, data point, and quote in it.
You grant us a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free license to publish, edit, and promote the piece with your name on it. You stay the author. (Note: a license, not an assignment, we don't confiscate your copyright. Some sites do. Read their terms sometime; bring popcorn.) Once published here, the piece doesn't get republished elsewhere, including your own blog, without our written OK. When we say yes, it carries a canonical link back to the original.
We edit for clarity, accuracy, style, length, and SEO, and may refresh the piece over time. We'll preserve your intent; we just really like commas in the right places. Governed by the link policy above, we may change link attributes at any time, including after publication.
We don't pay for posts, and we don't accept payment to publish them. Either direction, the answer is no.
We may decline, unpublish, or remove content at our discretion (e.g., if claims stop being true or sources rot). Rare, but we keep the right. You're accountable for every fact, whatever tools helped you write. Fabricated facts or plagiarism mean removal and a permanent ban.
Form info is used to evaluate your pitch and talk to you about it, per our Privacy Policy. Marketing emails only if you ticked that box. A pitch doesn't guarantee feedback or publication. We read everything; we can't publish everything.
FAQ
Guest posting FAQ
No, and we don't charge for them either. The value is the byline, the link, the audience, and the editing. Sponsored placements aren't part of this program, and "but what if..." is still no.
Not without written consent (and a canonical link if we agree). It keeps search engines from getting confused about who said it first.
No, business or institutional email only. The form will catch it anyway, so save yourself the retype.
Five business days if we're interested. Ten days of silence = a pass, with our genuine apologies and zero hard feelings.
Absolutely — one form submission per idea, please. The queue thanks you.
A few usual reasons: we already covered the topic (the search bar is your friend); the piece is promotional rather than useful; AI did the writing and nobody added the insight; or it arrived by email or from a free email address (see the one hard rule above).