Write for Temp Postal
Two ways to appear on Temp Postal: a free editorial contribution, or a paid, clearly labelled sponsored post.
Free editorial contribution
Original, expert articles on email privacy, security and testing. Strictly reviewed; most pitches are declined.
Sponsored guest post
Paid articles on matching topics. Paid links carry rel="sponsored" and a visible label.
Why Write for Us?
We offer real value to our guest contributors. Here's what you'll get:
Author Credit & Bio Link
Accepted free editorial articles include an author bio with a link to your site. Paid placements are labelled and use rel="sponsored".
Reach Privacy-Conscious Audience
Reach readers interested in privacy, security, and developer tools.
Social Media Promotion
Your article will be shared across our social media channels and included in our newsletter.
Featured Author Profile
Get a dedicated author bio with photo, links to your website, and social profiles.
SEO Benefits
Well-optimized articles with proper internal linking to boost your content's visibility.
Long-Term Exposure
Your content stays live permanently, providing ongoing traffic and authority.
Topics We Accept
We're looking for high-quality content in these categories:
Email Privacy & Security
- Email encryption best practices
- Protecting your inbox from phishing
- GDPR and email compliance
- Secure email for businesses
- Anonymous communication strategies
Developer Tutorials
- Email testing in CI/CD pipelines
- Temporary email API integration
- Building email verification systems
- Email automation with Node.js/Python
- QA testing with disposable emails
Online Privacy & Security
- Digital privacy fundamentals
- VPN and email privacy
- Browser security best practices
- Privacy tools comparison
- Data protection strategies
Content Guidelines
Please ensure your submission meets these requirements
- Original content only - no plagiarism or AI-generated content without significant editing
- Minimum 1,500 words (ideally 2,000-3,000 for comprehensive guides)
- Include relevant images, screenshots, or diagrams
- Proper formatting with H2/H3 headings, bullet points, and short paragraphs
- Actionable, educational content that provides real value to readers
- Natural integration of relevant internal links to Temp Postal content
- Include 2-3 authoritative external references
- SEO-optimized with target keyword in title and throughout content
How It Works
Our streamlined process makes guest posting easy:
Submit Your Pitch
Email us with your topic idea, a brief outline, and links to your previous work.
Approval & Guidelines
We'll review your pitch within 3-5 business days and provide detailed guidelines if approved.
Write & Submit
Write your article following our guidelines and submit via Google Docs or Markdown.
Review & Edit
Our editorial team will review, suggest edits if needed, and finalize the content.
Publish & Promote
Your article goes live with full author credit, and we promote it across our channels.
Featured Guest Authors
Join our community of expert contributors:
Waqar Habib Khan
Full-Stack Developer & Designer
Waqar Habib Khan is a seasoned full-stack developer and designer with expertise in building scalable SaaS applications, e-commerce platforms, and fintech solutions. Over the past decade he has shipped more than 100 production projects and helped generate over $2M in client revenue, working across the entire stack from database design and API architecture to front-end performance and conversion-focused design. His day-to-day toolkit centers on React, TypeScript, Node.js and cloud-native infrastructure, and he has a particular interest in the unglamorous parts of software that make products reliable: email deliverability, transactional messaging, authentication flows and abuse prevention. At Temp Postal he writes about the practical side of developer productivity — how to test signup flows without polluting real inboxes, how disposable email fits into a modern QA pipeline, and how small teams can adopt privacy-friendly tooling without slowing down. When he is not shipping client work he contributes to open-source projects and writes detailed build logs on his personal site, where he documents the trade-offs behind real architectural decisions rather than idealized tutorials.
1 article published
David Okonkwo
Enterprise Security Consultant
David is an enterprise security consultant with 15+ years of experience helping Fortune 500 companies implement robust email security practices. He specializes in compliance frameworks and risk assessment, and has led SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 readiness programmes for organizations in healthcare, finance and SaaS. His consulting work regularly touches on the questions Temp Postal's enterprise readers care about: when is a disposable email address acceptable inside a regulated environment, how should development and QA teams handle test accounts without creating shadow IT, and what do auditors actually look for in an email-handling policy. David writes for Temp Postal as a guest contributor, bringing the buyer's perspective to topics like vendor risk assessment, data-processing agreements and retention policies. His articles are deliberately practical — comparison tables, checklist-style compliance breakdowns and direct answers about where temporary email fits and where it absolutely does not, such as anything involving protected health information or financial account recovery. He holds CISSP and CIPP/US certifications and speaks regularly at regional security conferences about pragmatic compliance for small engineering teams.
2 articles published
Yuki Tanaka
Privacy Engineer & Researcher
Yuki is a privacy engineer and researcher focusing on email anonymization techniques and metadata protection. She has published several peer-reviewed papers on privacy-preserving communication systems, including work on metadata leakage in webmail clients and the deanonymization risks of seemingly harmless message headers. At PrivacyLabs Tokyo she designs systems that minimize the data a service needs to collect in the first place — an approach she brings to her guest writing for Temp Postal, where she explains the technical side of anonymous email without requiring a computer-science degree. Her articles cover topics like what information an SMTP transaction reveals even when the message body is encrypted, how retention policies differ between providers, and why 'no logs' claims deserve careful reading. Yuki is also an active contributor to open-source cryptography tooling and occasionally reviews Temp Postal's own infrastructure choices from an outside perspective, which the team publishes unedited. She believes the most important privacy feature is not any single technology but a provider's willingness to document exactly what it stores, for how long, and why.
3 articles published
Ready to Contribute?
Send us your pitch with a brief outline and we'll get back to you within 3-5 business days.
Quick answer
Can you write for Temp Postal, and what do we accept?
- Firsthand operational or research experience is the main requirement.
- Accepted authors get a byline, an author page and a link to their own work.
- We do not accept paid placements, sponsored posts or link exchanges.
- Target length is 1,500 to 2,500 words with sources for every factual claim.
Topics we are short of
The gaps are almost always technical or jurisdictional. Deliverability from the sender side, abuse handling at scale, email security testing in continuous integration, and data protection practice outside Europe are the areas where we would most like outside expertise.
We are not short of general introductions to temporary email. Those pages exist, they are maintained, and another one would compete with them rather than add anything.
What a strong pitch looks like
A good pitch is three or four sentences: the question the article answers, the specific experience that qualifies you to answer it, and the shape of the argument. A working title helps. A full draft attached to a first email usually does not, because the framing is what we would want to discuss first.
Say plainly if you are writing on behalf of a company. That does not automatically disqualify a pitch, but an undisclosed commercial motive discovered during editing does end it.
Editorial standards for contributors
Every factual claim needs a source a reader can check. Statistics need the original study, not a blog citing a blog. Claims about how a service behaves need a test that can be repeated. We will ask for the evidence during review, so gathering it while drafting saves a round trip.
Editing is collaborative but real. We cut padding, restructure so the answer comes first, and sometimes ask for a section to be rewritten. You see the final version before it publishes.
What we do not accept
No paid placements, no sponsored posts, no reciprocal link arrangements and no articles whose main purpose is an anchor text link. This is not a moral position so much as a practical one: those pages perform badly and drag down the pages around them.
We also decline articles generated wholesale by a language model. Not because the tool is forbidden, but because such drafts fail the sourcing standard consistently and the review cost is higher than writing the piece ourselves.
Frequently asked questions
Do you pay contributors?
For commissioned pieces on topics we specifically need, yes. For unsolicited pitches the compensation is the byline, the author page and the link to your own work.
Can I include a link to my site?
Yes, in your author biography, and in the body where it genuinely supports a claim. Links inserted for their own sake get removed.
How long does review take?
We reply to pitches within about two weeks. Accepted drafts usually take another two to four weeks through editing and scheduling.
What length do you want?
1,500 to 2,500 words is the usual range. Shorter is fine if the question is genuinely answered; padding to hit a number is not.
Who owns the article after publication?
You keep the byline and we host the canonical version. Republishing elsewhere is fine after thirty days with a link back to the original.