Have you ever been featured on Huffington Post or similar site?

Have you ever been featured on Huffington Post or similar site?

Have you ever got an article onto the Huffington Post site or another similar site like WashingtonPost, Forbes, TheDailyBeast, Rawstory, Alternet, Salon, Buzzflash, BusinessInsider or BusinessWeek, Bloomberg, SeekingAlpha etc etc? Or what about any other big news sites like NBC, CBS, CNN, USA Today, Foxnews, Time, Gawker, Sky, NPR, IBTimes, Buzzfeed, Lifehack, Medium, Instructables, etc etc?

The reason I ask is (not only are there are lot of benefits to that) but that I see people selling services to get you an article published on Huffington Post. And I'm just wondering how it is they do that. Because I've been reading around and looking into this, into what it would take to get your content published on Huffington Post and it's not easy. Before, you could join their contributor panel and submit it and within a few hours they'd publish it. But all that changed a while back when the owner decided to step away from the site to focus solely on her new project. And the contributor platform you could register to which you could submit your article to is now closed saying "Registration for the Contributor Platform is closed."

I did find this Google docs form to pitch a blog to Huffington Post. On that it says;

Welcome! Feel free to pitch any topic you like. We're always looking for posts that are succinct, shareable and satisfying. Have something to say that nobody else is saying, or a personal story everyone will relate to? Send it to us here. Also, please note that, like any publication, we cannot respond to all queries and you'll only hear from us if it's something we're interested in running.

And I'm yet to do that (currently writing an article to submit). I'm just making sure that it's very "Huffington publish worthy". And I know, there can be a lot of benefits to that such as the following.

Reasons to get published on Huffington Post, Forbes etc etc

• Improved Rankings
  These are high quality sites so you're going to get the benefit for your article being on them with links to your site. Even if they are no follow or no index.
• Direct Traffic
  Because these sites have millions of people using and reading them every day your article(s) can send you tons of direct traffic to your site.
• Increased Search Engine / Social Presence
  If your news story article is good it can go viral and that means many people will see it and if you have links to your site and social media profiles in it you can expect some followers from it.
• Increased Reputation/Respect
  If you get your article featured on Huffington Post you can put a "As Seen on Huffington Post" label and Huffington Post logo on your site. That will help you to gain more clients and advertiser attention.
  

But have you ever got your news article submitted and published to Huffington Post or any site mentioned here?

How did you / do you do it?

Let me know!

Thanks!

Mike.