Guest Post on Oatmeal Health

Promote your brand to millions of healthcare professionals around the world

Read our guide to working with us below

Please use your work email for submission, personal emails like gmail may be ignored.
Please provide a link to your LinkedIn profile
Please specify the title(s) of the article you would like to submit for consideration for Oatmeal's audience, and we will respond with our feedback via email.
Please provide links to three articles that you have published on reputable websites (Forbes, MedCity News, Beckers, etc.) as examples of your writing quality and style.

By submitting your contact information and subsequent articles,  you agree to our content release agreement.

  • Articles should be over 800 words. Longer articles with a word count of over 1,500+ rank far better than lower word count articles and will drive more viewers to your website and produce more leads.
  • Articles must be unique and not be published on any other website.
  • Submissions from commercial entities should contain zero mention of your business. (honestly, potential customers will see right through the article as advertising.  By creating educational content, users will see you as a trusted source and will contact you directly if they like what they read.) If you include a link to your website or business, we will make it a “no-follow” link. But we will include your website and social media on your author bio if you are a regular writer with us.
  • Articles must include sub-headers between every 3 to 7 paragraphs.
  • Include photos and videos as those are shared and viewed more.  It also breaks up the text so it’s easier to read.
  • Incomplete profiles will not be accepted.  The Oatmeal Health team will have discretion on who gets approved. We are looking for strong, original content that does not appear on any external blog.
  • Please be sure to check your grammar and spelling.

Some topics that resonate with our readership include the following:

  • Patient insights about cancer
  • Guides on how to get screened for lung cancer
  • Health information technology articles (Security tips, servers, software updates, etc)
  • How-to guides (Marketing ideas/tips)
  • Your pet peeve in healthcare or what works well in your office
  • Articles offering concrete advice for digital health and life science entrepreneurs
  • Fundraising insights
  • Analysis of impending legislation or regulations affecting medical device and pharma industries
  • A problem in healthcare and how you solved it
  • A physician or nurse’s point of view on the patient’s experience

Please be conversational whenever possible, make sure that the content is not self-promotional and speaks to our diverse audience: imaging technology, equity investors, biotech entrepreneurs, healthcare institutions and their administrators, physicians, nurses, researchers, government officials, pharmaceutical companies, industry service providers, prominent associations and educational institutions, and the like.

Content has to be original and healthcare-related.

The benefits of publishing on Oatmeal Health are many, here are just a few.

    • Better Ranking: By creating great contributions to Oatmeal Health that educate our readers, you have a very good chance of having one of your posts reach the #1 position for your topic.  As a bonus, a very select few authors will be given a chance to write additional content on existing high-ranking articles.
    • Domain & Page Authority: The number of relevant links pointing back to your domain (along with the quality of those sources and other quality factors) determines a major portion of that domain authority, so the more invested you are in the quality of your link building campaign, the higher propensity all of your site pages will have to rank in organic search results.
    • Referral Traffic: Let’s set SEO aside for a moment and talk about a more obvious (though sometimes forgotten) benefit of link building. Those links exist indefinitely and can be clicked by our readers. If a user reading your material wants to learn more about your topic, they can follow your link and get back to your site with relative ease. As you get deeper into your link-building strategy, you may find the referral traffic you get this way far exceeds what you earn from higher rankings.
    • Increased Leads:  By showcasing your content on an authoritative website that reaches millions of healthcare professionals, you have a better chance of generating more leads.
    • Increased Shares on Social Media:  Articles on Oatmeal Health are shared much more than standard medical websites due to the engaging topics our team and contributors create.
    • Humanizes your brand: Humanizing your brand is a requirement, not an option if you want to survive in business today. Yes, you can put brand humanization on hold. However, every day you lose is a day you could be building relationships, nurturing friendships, establishing and earning the respect of powerful brand evangelists who will shout from a mountain top how wonderful you and your brand are.