After setting up your Seeking Alpha analyst account (see here), go to the submissions page and start the process of submitting your first article.

Next, choose what type of article you would like to submit:

• Exclusive articles — You get paid and the articles are exclusive to Seeking Alpha. Please see here for payment terms. You can also post headlines and excerpts of up to 250 words as long as there is a link back to the full article on Seeking Alpha.

• Not-exclusive articles — Not paid, but allows you to repost content that you have posted on your website, blog or other media sites.

Please note that all articles are reviewed by our editorial team. Not every article that is submitted to us is published, but our editors will work with you if it's close to meeting our standards. Seeking Alpha receives a high volume of submissions each day and our team strives to provide quick turnaround times, with most articles reviewed or published within 10-14 hours of submission. New authors — those that have published less than three articles — should expect longer turnaround times.

Editorial Guidelines

Broadly, here’s what we look for in deciding whether or not to publish an article submission:

• Investment-oriented: Write about a security, sector, fund, or theme that is actionable for U.S.-based investors. We do publish macroeconomic, market-actionable posts, but will not publish articles that focus mainly on politics, marketing, economic theory, or non-business related trends.

• High-quality: Articles should contain high-quality opinion and analysis. Articles must also be convincing, well-presented and actionable. Last, they must include information that could help a reader make an investment decision.

• Fundamental analysis: Address the company’s core fundamentals, competitive environment, management, products, corporate strategy, earnings outlook, valuation and/or balance sheet. We look for well-presented and informed opinions based on rigorous fundamental analysis.

• Originality: If you are writing about well-covered issues, bring a new perspective that others may have missed. Articles generated largely by scripts, or articles that could have been generated largely by scripts, will not be accepted.

• No plagiarism: The entire content of your article should consist of your own ideas, expressed in your own words. If you copy even a small amount of text, such as a company description, a few sentences from a press release, or a quote from the CEO, it must be presented within quotation marks, along with a link to your source.

• No artificial intelligence. Do not use any AI tool to generate your articles. Do not even use AI to rewrite an article you’ve written, to make it sound more persuasive, or to clarify an article for a specific audience. Seeking Alpha is committed to its brand identity as a source of human-only content, and the ban on the use of AI for any purpose in writing an article is strictly enforced.

• No promotional content: We do not allow promotional content of any sort within articles. Examples include links to subscription pages, offers/deals, or any page that requests personal information from readers.

• Compelling title: Your title should reflect the content of the article and tell readers why they must read the article. Bombastic titles and articles that don’t deliver on the title’s promise will be declined.

• Micro-cap status: An article about a stock trading at less than $1 or with a market cap below $100 million will see extra scrutiny but is still eligible for publication.

• Nano-cap status: Stocks with a share price under 50 cents, or those with a market cap below $25 million are not likely to be published. Articles can still be published if they are exceptional, in-depth and well rounded.

• Clean: All articles must be proofread prior to submission, and be free of any grammatical or spelling mistakes.

• The human factor: We work to consistently select the best articles submitted for consideration. However, the selection of articles is highly discretionary, and can be impacted by many factors including the number of articles addressing similar themes, the timeliness of the topic, and the author’s intention. We strive to maintain an open and constructive dialogue with our analysts, and work closely with analysts whenever possible to help ensure article publication and optimization as relevant.

  If you have any additional questions about becoming a analyst, please email contributors@seekingalpha.com and we'd be happy to assist you.