Junta42 is a search community site focused on content marketing and custom publishing solutions. If it’s content about content, from blogs to articles to podcasts to videos, you’ll find it here. Our content comes from some of the most respected media sites to the most obscure blogs from around the web – all joining in on the conversation about content marketing and how to attract and retain customers through content.

How does it work? Junta42 staff editors join with members of the Junta42 community to search out and submit the best content marketing information available on the web. This combination has created the best content marketing resource available today. But Junta42 needs your expertise; Join Now! All submissions are moderated by a Junta42 expert (just to keep out the spam), and are approved or denied within 24 hours.

Once something is submitted, members have the opportunity to Hitch! (link to section about hitching) the article. Enough Hitch!’s (like Digg’s or Sphinn’s) and the submission makes the Most Popular list, promoting the article even more.

If you care about creating content that truly makes an impact on people, then Junta42 is for you. We’re here to provide the tools for you to learn, share and join in the conversation about content. Be part of the story!

Junta42 is a useful site for the following types of people:

• Marketing professionals within corporations, associations and foundations.
• Business owners actively involved in or deciding to launch content marketing initiatives.
• Content marketing and custom publishing professionals or consultants.
• Association executives, editors and other association professionals.
• Publishers, editors, project managers, eMedia managers, and production staff within traditional media companies.
• Direct marketing, public relations, web development and agency professionals involved in content marketing activities.

If you like the article, click on the Hitch! button. By Hitching an article, you will make it easier for friends and colleagues to find the article. The more Hitch!’s an article gets, the higher it will rise in the search results.

If this is your article and you want more exposure for it, send it to your friends and make sure they Hitch! it as well. You can only Hitch! each story once.

Members can submit stories at any time. Junta42 is looking for quality content that is relevant to the content marketing industry. Expert articles and blog posts are great, although we will also accept a direct link to a content marketing example as a case study. As long as the article or post doesn’t OVERTLY offer a product for sale, we want it.

Once you submit your story, it will be checked by our review team before it is posted to the Junta42 article database. Users will be sent an email upon approval of the story.

• Enter the URL: Link directly to the source of the article or case study on the web. Be sure to use http:// with all URLs.
• Check the Title: This can be the title you are linking to, or can be something more relevant to the Junta42 audience. Use a title that you believe will get the most attention.
• Enter a Description: You are the author here, so create an abstract that will really make people want to read the article (as long as it’s truthful). An overview is great…an overview with key points or takeaways is even better.
• Choose a Category: Most likely, your story could go into many different categories, but pick the one that makes the most sense.
• Tags: Tags are key to helping people find your article. Include all the keywords, phrases, people and companies that are associated with the article. Plurals and variations should be used as well (i.e., web content, online content). Some of our articles have well over 10 tags.

In your “My Profile” page you will see links to both “Contributed Stories” and “Hitched Stories.” There you will be able to see a complete listing of all the articles you are involved with. For a total number of Hitched articles or comments made, just look to the right navigation bar.

Junta42’s list of most popular articles is generated by looking at 1) Which articles users are Hitching, 2) Which articles users are reading, and 3) Which articles are more recent. The combination of these three creates a dynamic “Most Popular Articles” list that changes based on user behavior.

• General Questions and Feedback – feedback[at]junta42.com
• Partnership Inquiries – partners[at]junta42.com
• Media Inquiries – media[at]junta42.com

Feel free to contact Joe Pulizzi, Junta42’s founder and chief content officer, at any time if you have feedback about the site. We want to hear from you. Contact Joe at joe[at]junta42.com.

NOTE: For all email addresses above, replace [at] with the @ symbol.

Our most popular question by far. Junta (pronounced juhn-tah by us, with apologies to the traditional pronunciation) is defined by dictionary.com as “a small group ruling a country immediately after a coup d’état and before a legally constituted government has been instituted.” That’s where we are in today’s marketing environment. It’s the Wild, Wild West, baby. A marketing revolution is taking place. Junta42 is just here to bring a little organization to town. For more about our unique name, check out this video.

The “42” you ask? Forty-two is the answer to “The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything” in the book (not the movie) Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. For more about the number 42, go to http://www.squidoo.com/42.

For more information about the Top 42, go to the Top 42 main page. It has the full description and information on how to add a blog.