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What happens next
We read every submission and respond within 14 business days.
If it’s a fit, we’ll come back with editorial guidance and a timeline. If it isn’t, we’ll tell you — we’d rather say no clearly than leave you waiting.
If we decline a DrParenting article, we’ll review the links you proposed and may offer a link placement instead. Nothing is charged unless you accept.
Fees and terms for paid placements (DrParenting)
The fees are listed under What you get, above. They are confirmed with you before anything is scheduled, and nothing is charged at the pitch stage.
A paid placement means the product appears and is labeled as paid. It does not mean we recommend it, and if we have reservations we say them.
Every outbound link in paid content is published with rel="sponsored nofollow", and the page is labeled as a paid placement at the top. That is a condition of publication, not a negotiation.
What a paid placement does not get you is a link that passes search ranking signals. Google requires paid links to be qualified, and a site that does not do it risks penalties affecting every page on it — including yours. Any publisher offering you an unqualified paid link is putting both of us at risk.
Placement term. Paid placements run for 12 months from the publication date. After that we may remove or update links at our discretion. Renewal is available on request.
Editorial removal. We may edit, rewrite, remove or unpublish any content and any link at any time, including during a paid term, where we believe it is inaccurate, out of date, unsafe, no longer consistent with current clinical guidance, or where the linked page or business has changed. Content accuracy is not negotiable and is not subject to the placement term. Where we remove a paid link inside its term for reasons unrelated to your conduct, we will offer a pro-rata credit.
Contributed articles. Unpaid contributed content and its links may be edited, rewritten or removed at any time. Contributors are credited where their work forms the basis of a rewritten article.
How payment works. Nothing is charged at the pitch stage. Once the content or the link placement is agreed, we email a secure Stripe invoice. If it is not paid within 5 business days the contribution is removed — article, link or placement — and the slot goes back.
Fees are non-refundable once the agreed edits are approved and the piece is published, except where we remove content or a link editorially under the clause above for reasons unrelated to your conduct, in which case a pro-rata credit applies.
Questions: hello@drsensory.com
Contributor terms
All contributed content and paid placements are published in our DrParenting section, at drsensory.com/drparenting/.
DrSensory publishes health and developmental information and a directory of licensed providers. Our clinical pages are cited, reviewed by named clinicians, and carry no paid links — that separation is how we keep the health content trustworthy, and it isn’t something we make exceptions to. DrParenting is our opinion, experience, and product section, and it’s where contributed articles and paid placements belong.
Every paid placement is labeled as paid on the page, and every paid link carries rel="sponsored" as search engines require.
Placements run for 12 months from the publication date. If we move a placement to a new URL, the term restarts from the new publication date.
What we ask of contributors
DrParenting is the place for first-hand experience — what you tried, what worked, what you would buy again. You do not need to be a licensed practitioner, and you are not asked to supply citations.
That does not mean nobody checks. We research the product or the claims in a contributed piece ourselves, and we add safety information, disclaimers and relevant research to the page where the subject calls for it. If what we find does not support a claim, the claim does not run.
Two rules still apply. Every paid link is labeled as paid on the page, which is a condition of publication rather than something we negotiate. And nothing about a specific identifiable patient or child other than your own.
Safety standards
Articles touching depression, self-harm, suicide risk, disordered eating, medication, or supplements for children carry crisis resources, urgency guidance and dosing boundaries as a house standard.
This applies to every article regardless of author, and is not a comment on your draft. If your piece describes symptoms that can indicate risk, we add the resources that belong alongside them.
Review
We don’t put a clinical review badge on content our reviewers aren’t qualified to review. For psychiatric, pharmacological or medical content we either secure an appropriately credentialed independent reviewer, or publish with your credentials standing on their own and no review badge. We’ll tell you which.
An author cannot review their own article. That isn’t independent review.
Ownership disclosures
Where a page links to a business owned by a DrSensory founder or staff member, we say so on the page. We hold ourselves to the rule we apply to contributors.
What you get
Editorial support — we edit for clarity and consistency, and we’ll come back to you with anything we’d change substantively.
Contributed articles are clearly marked as contributed, and are presented distinctly from our editorial content.
An author page is not part of a placement. We keep author pages for a small number of named reviewers, decided by us, and nothing paid carries one. A contributed piece is bylined as contributed; it does not come with a profile on the site.