Yeepet

Yeepet offers pet lovers and parents various ways to socialize with other pet people, share and find useful information in our online community. As a pet lover, you can:

1. Create your own user profile.

2. Create multiple pet profiles if you have more than one pet.

3. Upload photos for yourself and your pet(s).

4. Post your blog or make a slideshow in your blog.

5. Share your links of anything pet related as long as they are interesting or meaningful.

6. Socialize with other pet lovers through our Forums and Groups. Interact more by joining our contests, inviting friends and more...

7. Seek professional advice from the pet experts. Ask your question here!

8. Find local pet services or post your pet service in our Yellow Pages.

9. Find or post classifieds.

10. Find or post your pets for adoption on our Adoption page. If you are a rescue organization or an animal shelter, you can also list your shelter first before posting adoptable pets.

11. Earn points and redeem free pet products by just socializing and interaction on Yeepet.

12. If you love pets and writing, we have 2 different programs that suit your needs.

- Experienced pet bloggers are welcome to become our featured contributors and earn perks, cash bonus and more.

- New pet bloggers are good for our Yeepet Blog Program.

13. Shop quality pet products on Yeepet Web Store with the best price guarantee and free gift(s).

More socializing, more useful information and more free gifts! Join now for free and experience for yourself!

2. What can I do on Yeepet?

We've built Yeepet to let you do a lot of great things on Yeepet as a pet lover and/or business owner. Business owners can achieve more things on Yeepet not only as a pround pet parent or lover, but also for your business, products or service. Visit this page for more detail.

3. What is Yeepet Media Network?

The Yeepet Media Network is the premier pet related content and advertising network, offering ad placement on Yeepet.com and a hand-selected list of the best websites for animal lovers and enthusiasts.

We have an innovative marketing and sales angle and focus within a fast growing pet social network and professional network.

We are the trusted marketing and sales platform in the pet industry that provides online social media applications and networks to help pet businesses and pet professionals achieve their marketing and sales objectives.

We are growing quickly and have generated tremendous traction by targeting the mostly untapped pet loving sites and demographics.

4. Editorial Guidelines of Yeepet.com

Editorial Guidelines of Yeepet.com

These guidelines are not meant to stifle your creativity nor give you a headache. They are to ensure quality content for our users and visitors and hone you as a writer. The guidelines apply to blogs, articles, and any other submitted editorial content. These guidelines are subject to change, and it is your responsibility to stay up to date on them.

1. MUST BE YOUR ORIGINAL WORK: That means no copy and pasting from the public domain, no plagiarism, no ghostwriting, no Private Label Rights (PLR) articles, no advertisements, and no press releases. We want to read what you have to say.

2. MUST BE PET-RELATED: Yeepet.com is a community of pet lovers. Unless otherwise stated, you can safely assume that any assignment or suggested topic is pet-related. For example, if the topic of "How to Survive the Holidays" were assigned to you, that means "How to Survive the Holidays With Your Pets" or "How to Survive the Holidays For Pets."

3. MUST USE CORRECT ENGLISH: This includes spelling, punctuation, grammar, sentence structure, and capitalization. Incorrect usage of the English language reflects poorly on Yeepet.com and your writing. Please proofread before submission. In particular, note these rules from The Chicago Manual of Style for capitalizing blog and article titles:

- Capitalize the first letter in each word but avoid conjunctions and prepositions.

- Nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, and subordinate conjunctions (such as, "than," "because," "if" and "that") are capitalized.

- Lowercase all articles, prepositions, and coordinate conjunctions (such as, "and," "but" and "so") when they are not the first or last word.

- Lowercase the "to" in an infinitive.

For stylistic purposes, please also apply these rules when creating your blog and article titles:

- Excessive punctuation is unnecessary. Use periods rarely for emphasis (...), and no more than three. Use exclamation marks rarely. One exclamation mark (!) or question mark (?) is plenty. Do not use more than one of either or both at the same time.

- Your title is what pulls your readers deeper into your work. Make it count. Short and sweet is a great motto for this. For example, "10 Toys Under $10" is far better than "I Saw Some Great Toys While I Was out Today...".

4. MUST NOT CONTAIN OFFENSIVE CONTENT: Profane, racist, defamatory, libelous, violence-oriented, obscene, or insulting language will not be tolerated. Your submissions must not contain pornography, use or advocacy of weapons, illegal drugs, prescription drugs, tobacco products, or hard alcohol. This is by no means an exhaustive list. Yeepet.com reserves the right to reject and/or remove any editorial content at any time.

5. MUST BE ACCURATE: It is the writer's responsibility to ensure the content of their submission is accurate.

6. MUST HAVE PROPER ATTRIBUTION: If you quote any source other than yourself, you must give that source attribution. Also, do not post any pictures that are not within legal bounds for you to do so or that are not the sole property of the writer. The writer is ultimately responsible for ensuring the legality of any content or pictures in their respective works.

Blog Writing Guide

It's great to share your knowledge and opinion; it's even better to be heard when you're doing it. The following tips are provided to help our blogging team attract more readers to their posts. Happy blogging!

Would I read this? This is a great question to ask yourself before posting a blog. Check out your headline first. Is it so intriguing that if you saw it, you would just have to click and find out more? Be honest and objective with yourself. Move onto the blog. Is it entertaining or informing enough to keep your reader engaged through the whole posting?

1. Short, sweet and concise: Some topics take longer than others, but it is generally better for you to keep it short and sweet. Why? Because many of us have short attention spans and want entertainment and information in bite-size form, not term paper format. We all hated those.

2. Get to the point quickly: Write down steps, tips or advice in the 1-2-3 format or in bullet points and briefly explain what they are. People need to understand what you are talking about quickly.

3. Proper title capitalization: Capitalize the first letter in each word in the blog title but avoid conjunctions and prepositions.

4. Great grammar: It's difficult to think highly of a writer's opinion who can't properly use the English language. We probably all need a brush up from time to time, so try to review every now and again. Here are some common grammatical errors that can make a good blog look bad:

It's and its:

- "It's" is a contraction for "it is" or "it has." If you say a sentence out loud and can replace "it's" with "it is" or "it has," you have it right.

- "Its" is a possessive pronoun, as in, "Yeepet.com is its name."

You're and your:

- "You're" is a contraction for "you are." For example, "You're going to buy some new fish?"

- "Your" is another possessive pronoun, as in, "That is your dog eating off the table."

There, their, and they're:

- "There" is used in a variety of ways such as, "There is my cat," or "Take that over there."

- "Their" is a plural possessive pronoun, as in "Their mother will arrive soon." It is only used when there is a belonging of something. It is their mother.

- "They're" is a contraction for "they are" or "they were." "They're going to Orlando today."

5. Pictures: Same goes for pictures. Nothing is like a 500-word blog about the smallest dog in the world, and there is no picture of him. Pictures really make your blogs stand out and more appealing to online readers. We love pictures. Make sure to comply with Yeepet.com's policies on picture posting.

6. Links: add links properly whenever needed to your blogs make sense to others. If you are talking about something exciting and cool but without pointing to the original page, users have to google it to find out which is such a drag and not user-friendly. But keep in mind we don't want to endorse any product, busines, service or organization unless you feel strong about it and want to highly recommended it as a consumer. Eventually you don't want your post to sound too commercial and this could decrease the value of your perspective and your credibility in our network.

7. Break it up: One huge lump of text just screams, "Don't read me." It looks like too much work to tackle the whole thing. Break up your blog into easy-to-digest paragraphs, and it will look far more appealing to your reader.

8. Write what you know and love: If you do not know nor care anything about the topic you chose to write about, by all means find another one. No one wants to read from someone who has complete apathy about their subject.

9. Lots of internal linking: It's always good to include internal links to other pages on Yeepet.com. This way you help our users explore more cool content we have.

5. How do I apply for featured contributor? What is the application process?

The application process is straightforward as below:

1. Sign up on Yeepet and tell us your Yeepet username.

2. We will sign you up as a participant.

3. Start the test run for a week. You need to write 3 blogs and publish them in our Blogs channel during the test run. Of course you are encouraged to write more. See the FAQ page for more details about the blog requirements.

Please check in with us once the test run ends. We will review your blog posts based on the page views, topics and SEO, and decide whether or not we want to work with you. We like blogs that talk about interesting topics, have a good sense of humor and can drive a good amount of incoming traffic to our site.

If you are hired, you will be paid for the test run.

6. What are votes?

Registered users can vote a pet to express their likes about the pet. There are currently five votes available: One-of-a-kind, Funny, Sweet, Cute, Superstar. We rank all pets from time to time (normally on a daily or weekly basis) to showcase the most voted pets and display the pets on the home page and the Gallery page.

Click on the Give Votes link on the pet profile page and select one or more votes. The votes you sent will be displayed on the pet profile page.

7. How often do you ship the gift I redeemed to me?

We work with our sponsors closely. The products are shipped once a month.

8. How do I add my pet business into Yellow Pages?

You need to be a registered user if you want to add your pet service to our Yellow Pages. Posting your pet business in the Yellow Pages is completely free, in addition, you will be able to receive service requests from our members as our online booking system allows members to send you a service request or book your service from your business profile page. So make sure your business information you add on Yeepet is complete, accurate and appealing.

See below for how to add your business:

1. Log into Yeepet.com.

2. Click on the Local Services tab in the header. Or go to Yellow Pages here.

3. Click the Add Business button.

4. Fill in your business information thoroughly and accurately. Upload up to 5 nice photos that represent your business well. Click on Add Business at the end of the page.

The business is posted into the Yellow Pages.

9. How can I post pictures in a thread?

You can post up to 10 pictures in a single thread. You need to log in to Yeepet to do this.

1. Click the New Thread button.

2. On the Post New Thread page, find the attachments icon (looks like a paper clip) in the first line of the Message section. Click on the icon.

3. A popup appears. Upload your picture. Close the window after the picture has been uploaded.

4. Place your cursor to where you want the picture to appear in the thread. Click the attachments icon again. Since the picture has been uploaded, you will see the picture or a list of pictures listed in the pulldown upon clicking. Click the one you want to insert into the thread.

5. The ATTACH tags will be inserted into the thread. Submit the thread and you will see the picture there.

10. How do you determine if my blogs are popular?

The popularity of your blogs depend on various factors including page views, content quality, blog topics and others.

Page views are clearly displayed on each of your blog pages. The more page views, the more popular your blog. You want to increase the exposure of your blogs and therefore the page views of your blogs by promoting your blogs on various sites as suggestion in the above Question #1. You can simply use the Share link on each blog page to share your blogs on other sites.

Content quality depends on how your blog is written and how the statements are described. This is not something we can quantify, but read our featured blogs to get an idea.

Whether or not blog topics are interesting is another criterion we use to measure the popularity of your blogs. The topics should be useful, educational, informative or entertaining.