Submission Guidelines

Guidelines for Search Engine Submission

Search Engine Rules

• Please enter your full URL, including the http:// prefix. For example: http://www.example.com/.

• Metadata (including title and description) that accurately describes the contents of a web page.

• If you choose to submit your site, only the top-level domain is necessary, as the spiders can follow your internal links to the rest of the pages.

• You do not need to submit each individual page

• Crawlers like Googlebot, MSNBot will be able to find the rest.

• Google updates its index on a regular basis, so updated or outdated link submissions are not necessary.

• Dead links will 'fade out' of our index on our next crawl when we update our entire index.

Search Engine Rules - Things to Avoid

• Don't just list keyword after keyword in the title or description. And, don't use an abundance of marketing hype in your title or description.

• Don't create a description that goes on and on and on. A few sentences are fine, but don't make it any longer than that

• Don't put your title and description in ALL CAPS.

• Don't submit your site until it's ready for traffic and has recently been updated. Sites with a huge "under construction" sign on the first page and little else aren't ready for traffic.

• Don't submit pages of your site to every single category that you can possibly think of that halfway pertains to your site. Keep in mind that the editors write notes to other editors about certain sites. The last thing you want is for a bunch of editors to make comments such as, "too many submissions," or even worse, "spamming the index."

• Don't submit your site every single day (or every other day) until it's accepted. If your site isn't indexed in three weeks, then submit it again, taking time to submit it properly.

• If your site is only one page, work on it some more. Build original content! Create some interior pages before you submit.


Guidelines for Directory Submission


Rules to Follow

• Before submitting your website URL, Do a quick search at the top of any directory page by simply typing your Domain name (example.com), then click the Search button.

• Identify the single best category for your site. The Directory has an enormous array of subjects to choose from. You should submit a site to the single most relevant category. Sites submitted to inappropriate or unrelated categories may be rejected or removed.

• Note: Some categories do not have "suggest URL" or "Add URL" links. These categories don't accept submissions, so you should find a more specific category for your site.

• Once you've selected the best category for your site, go directly to that category on that directory and then click "suggest URL or Add link ". Follow the instructions on the submission form carefully.

• Descriptions of sites should describe the content of the site concisely and accurately. They should not be promotional in nature. Submitting a promotional description rather than an objective, well written description may significantly delay your site from being listed or prevent your site from being listed at all.

• Titles and descriptions must not contain promotional language such as: the best; greatest; the only; etc. Keep your title and description brief and well written. Poorly written titles, descriptions or lists of keywords will not be permitted.

• Write a descriptive Title and Description – imagine that you are a potential customer browsing for a website – what would you look for?

• Use correct English to describe your site and check your grammar and spelling.

• The submitted link must point to your home page only.

• First determine whether your url is appropriate for submission to that specified Directory

Rules to avoid

• Do not submit sites that have too many keywords and are created specially for Search Engines

• Do not submit mirror sites. Mirror sites are sites that contain identical content, but have altogether different URLs.

• Do not submit URLs that contain only the same or similar content as other sites you may have listed in the directory. Sites with overlapping and repetitive content are not helpful to users of the directory. Multiple submissions of the same or related sites may result in the exclusion and/or deletion of those and all affiliated sites.

• Do not disguise your submission and submit the same URL more than once.

• Do not submit any site with an address that redirects to another address.

• Do not submit sites "under construction." Wait until a site is complete before submitting it. Sites that are incomplete, contain "Under Construction" notices, or contain broken graphics or links aren't good candidates for the directory.

• Do not submit website(s) that use cloaking.

• Don't submit sites consisting largely of affiliate links.

• Do not submit sites with popup windows and other technologies that interfere with viewing the main content of the site.

• SEO Spamy: Sites that use spamy blackhat SEO tactics will not be permitted. Webmaster discretion advised.

• The site must have a regular and correct URL, not an IP, but only a URL.

• Do not submit sites that are under construction. Make sure that all images and links on your site work properly.

• Don't stuff your title and description with keywords - they will either be deleted, or your submission will be rejected.

• Do not submit sites that redirect visitors to another site

• Auto-submission software is (and always has been) a violation of this procedure. Sites submitted automatically are flagged and deleted after the submission is accepted, without notification to you. Persistent automatic submission may force us to ban you from the directory site.

Once your site has been accepted into the Open Directory, it may take anywhere from 2 weeks to several months for your site to be listed on partner sites which use the Open Directory data, such as AOL Search, AltaVista, HotBot, Google, Lycos, Netscape Search, etc


Guidelines for Article Submission


Before submitting an article, the article should be formatted according to the following guidelines:

Article Title:

Title must be in upper and lower case letters with the first letter of each major word capitalized.

Title Keyword Richness:

Title should be "Keyword Rich." The first 3-4 words of your Title determines the success of the article in terms of how much traffic your article will generate, so choose the first 3-4 words wisely.

Keywords: Adding the top keywords related to your article helps us to bring more traffic to your article.

Author Name:

• Your Full Author Name: You must include your first and last name as the author of the article.

• Your Author Name must have a First name and a Last name.

Summary:

• The purpose of the Article Summary is to give an abstract or summary of the benefits that your article delivers.

• Every article must have a 2-5 sentence article summary and not exceed 200 words. If you don't know what to put in your summary, just use the first paragraph of your article.

Article Body:

• Must be a minimum of 250 words and no more than 5,000 words. For us, an ideal article size is 400-750 words.

• Please do not repeat your Title and Author Name at the top of the Article Body.

• Copyrights must be at the bottom of your article.


Website Links/Urls

There is a total limit of 3 active links allowed in the article, which consists of both the Body and the Resource Box.

Email ‘Mailto’ Links:

Include a valid website URL and let potential customers find your email address on your website. Don’t use mailto: or email link to your personal or work email account. Spammers will abuse it.

Must Not be a press release, advertisement, sales letter, promotional copy, or blatant and excessive self-promotion or hype.

Must Have: Articles must be spell checked and proof read for grammatical errors prior to submitting - Do not submit articles filled with spelling errors and bad grammar.

Simple Punctuation Rules:

One or two spaces after each period, colon, or semi-colon; Periods should be inside of quotes; When doing "..." -- you should use only 3 dots minimum and maximum; When using dashes, use two in a row, ex: "--"; There is never a space before a period or before a comma.

Must Not be a submission of the exact same article as one that you already submitted. Some authors have submitted the same article multiple times with only a few words changed in the body.

Guidelines for Forum Discussions

Rules to be followed in Forums

• Advertising, spamming and trolling is not allowed. This includes using the forum email and Private message system to spam other members.

• Spam is not tolerated here under any circumstance. Users posting spam will be warned, suspended and banned and their post removed

• Posts are to be made in the relevant forum. Users are asked to read the forum descriptions before posting. Users consistently posting to the wrong forum may be given a warning and/or suspended.

• You cannot post any affiliate or referral links (including links in your registration profile under "Website" in "Member list" and in your signature) or links that lead to click-through ads page(s), or post anything asking for a referral. Such posts and member profiles will be subject to removal.

• You cannot post advertisements or notices for contests anywhere on this forum including your profile and signature.

• No other related forums are allowed to advertise in anyone's registration profile under "Website" in "Memberlist" nor in signatures.

• This Forum is not a marketplace and "For Sale", "Wanted", "Trade" ads of any sorts are not allowed.

• No spam, affiliate links, or double-posting/cross-posting

• Posts, Avatars, and Signatures deemed distracting or inappropriate may be removed without notice.

• Members should post in a way which is consistent with "normal writing". That is users should not post excessive numbers of emoticons, large, small or coloured text, etc. Similarly users should not SHOUT (posting in all UPPERCASE text) or use excessive punctuation (e.g. !! and ??) in topic titles or posts. Users consistently abusing this will be warned.


• No all-caps (FOR EXAMPLE, LIKE THIS) or all-bolds please. It is extremely hard to read. Posts submitted in all-caps or all-bolds will be deleted automatically.


Guidelines for Social Book Marking

• The url is the web address of the bookmark that you're saving and usually starts with http:// and you must submit only products or service based inner links.

• The Description is the name of the bookmark that you are saving. It is automatically set to the title of the page, if available. You can change this to something more appropriate if you'd like. It's limited to 255 characters only

• Tags / Keywords : are words that you assign to the bookmark to help you (and other people) find it later.

• After saving an item, you can edit its description, notes, and tags at anytime.

Source: Google, Dmoz, Yahoo