How to brief a guest post so we can actually run it

A guest post outline is a sourcing plan. If you cannot name the parks page, you do not have a piece yet. You have a diary. This desk will not reverse-engineer a destination from a vibe.

Send, via the contact form:

1. Title and whether it is a guide, a blog essay, or a desk note.
2. The official URLs — parks, BOM, roads, Traditional Owner pass, council ferry.
3. When you travelled, phrased as observation. “In July the inland track was signed closed” is usable. “The inland track is closed” is an alert you are not authorised to issue.
4. What you will not claim: fees, specs, rankings, live availability.
5. Who pays you.

What “official URL” means

A Queensland Parks visiting-safely page, a Parks Victoria changed-conditions listing, the SA Desert Parks Bulletin, a DBCA park page, a Parks Tasmania driver-pass page, an NT Parks reserve page, an NSW NPWS park page, a BOM warnings page, or a state traffic site. A Facebook recap of any of those is not an improvement. A club newsletter that restates them without a link is not an improvement. If the land manager is a Traditional Owner organisation — Uunguu, Dambimangari, and others — cite their visitor-pass page, not a tour brochure that mentions them.

How we will edit

We will edit Australian spelling, cut affiliate gravity, and ask for the visiting-safely sentence that supports a safety claim. We will reject pieces that need a disclaimer on every line. We will ask you to reframe a live-sounding closure as a dated observation. We will not add a ranger quote you did not provide. House style for the finished object is what we publish. The field capture list is the checklist.

A pitch that already names the instrument — Vehicle Access Permit, Desert Parks Pass, Recreational Driver Pass, Uunguu Visitor Pass — is easier to edit than a pitch that says “we had a permit”. Name the product the way the agency names it. Do not quote the dollar figure; the booking site will still be right next month.

What to leave out of the first email

Do not test-submit the form. Do not paste 3,000 words of fees. Do not invent a co-author who is a ranger unless they are, and can say so on the record. Do not attach a manufacturer PDF and ask us to “make it editorial”. Do not send a tow table. Do not send a ranked recovery-kit list. Those pieces fail the same YMYL rule the staff copy fails.

If you work for a tour operator, a hire company, or a park concession, say so in the first paragraph of the outline. Disclosure is not a rejection. Undisclosed brochure copy is.

Overnight this domain had a guest-post stub. The path stayed. The standard rose. Pitch the outline, wait for a reply, then write. That order is how invented numbers stay out of the CMS.