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Frequently Asked Questions About
Submissions
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| What is the difference between a Premiere Listing and
Featured Advertising? |
| Why doesn't my site thumbnail images appear exactly
like my web page appears in my browser? |
| Can I edit my listing or remove it altogether? |
| How often can I change my listing? |
| How many pages from my web site should I submit? |
| I submitted the wrong URL, now what do I do? |
| How often does NetBizCommunity.com re-index or
re-crawl web pages? |
| What type of web pages does NetBizCommunity.com not
allow? |
| How can I remove my email address from
NetBizCommunity.com's database? |
| What if there is an error in my listing? |
| What is 'Q' and how can I find it for my listing? |
| Can I change the image used with my listing? |
| Can I remove my email address so that I no longer
receive email from NetBizCommunity.com? |
| What information should I put in the Comments when I
submit a URL? |
| Can I place my listing under several different
categories? |
| The description in my listing appears differently in a
search than it does in my confirmation email, a listing search, or in
the directory. Why is this? |
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| What is the difference between a Premiere Listing and
Featured Advertising? |
| Featured Advertising displays your web
page on the NetBizCommunity.com home page. A Premiere Listing displays your web page at or
near the top of the search results when a search is performed on search
terms contained on your web page. Featured
Advertising runs for a set number of times that your web page is
displayed, while a Premiere Listing lasts
for 6 months. |
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| Why
doesn't my site thumbnail images appear exactly like my web page
appears in my browser? |
| Web pages
evaluated by NetBizCommunity.com will have an image created of the web
page as it appears at 800 x 600 screen resolution on the average web
browser. Pages that use ActiveX plug-ins, page redirection, and
JavaScript for layout may have problems with thumbnail images. |
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| Can I edit my
listing or remove it altogether? |
| To edit
your listing, simply change the meta-tag information in your web page
and submit your web page again. To
remove your listing, simply place a robots noindex tag on your page and
request to have it re-evaluated, of log in to the listing manager to delete your listing. |
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| How
often can I change my listing? |
| You may
change your listings as often as you like. However, the changes
will only go into effect after your web pages are re-evaluated by one
of our web crawlers. There is no reason to submit a URL if the
web pages has not changed. If you continually submit a URL when
there are no changes of your web page it could result in the URL or
domain name being banned from our listings. |
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| How
many pages from my web site should I submit? |
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purpose of NetBizCommunity.com is not to link to every page on the
Internet, but rather web pages that contain unique and useful
information. Web pages that contain the duplicate information are
continually purged from our listings (except those that are premiere listings).
Submitting web page URL's that
contain largely the same information could result in the domain name
being banned from our listings.
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| I
submitted the wrong URL, now what do I do? |
| Simply submit the correct URL. The incorrect URL
will usually be removed automatically during a database purge. |
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| How
often does NetBizCommunity.com re-index or re-crawl web pages? |
| Times vary
according to how many editors are actively evaluating web page
submissions, but new submissions and re-evaluation requests are usually
performed within a few hours of being submitted or requested.
We request that you not submit your
URL to be re-evaluated more often than twice in a 24 hour period.
Additional requests may be ignored.
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| What type
of web pages does NetBizCommunity.com not allow? |
| It is the
intent of NetBizCommunity.com to present "the best of the Internet" and
as such we actively strive to only display web sites that are
appropriate for general audiences. Web sites that are considered adult
only, contain hacking information, promote racism, hatred, or otherwise
contain illegal or illicit content would not be considered appropriate
for general audiences. Please see our Terms
of Service for more details.
NetBizCommunity.com is an
English-Language search engine. We display web pages from every
part of the World, but because the vast majority of NetBizCommunity.com
users are English speaking, we only list web pages that are primarily
in the English language.
Because we index web pages
according to meta description and body text, web pages that contain
only html framing information will probably not be included in our
listings.
Because of the deceptive nature of
web pages that contain automatic redirection, these pages will probably
not be included in our listings.
Web pages that contain non-English
characters will probably not be included in our listings.
Web sites that post a large number
of web pages just to get higher rankings in the search listings can and
will be banned and have their listings removed.
We discourage the submission of
pages that are under construction. If a page that is under
construction gets evaluated, it most likely will become banned which
would prohibit it from being listed even after it is no longer under
construction.
Please note that in any event,
NetBizCommunity.com reserves the right to disallow any listing from any
web site for any reason.
You may find it useful to view the top reasons why a web page is not added to our
listings.
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| How
can I remove my email address from NetBizCommunity.com's database? |
| NetBizCommunity.com
never shares it's webmaster email addresses with third-parties.
If you would like to remove your email address from our listing
database, you may remove your email
address at any time. |
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| What if
there is an error in my listing? |
| NetBizCommunity.com
gets the text for all listings directly from the each web page.
Because of this, if there is an error in your listing, it can only be
as a result of an error on your web page. Repeat: If there
are miss-spellings, grammatical errors, missing or incorrect
information in your listing, this is a result of the same error on your
web page. Please don't ask us to edit the text, it will only
revert back to the incorrect text when your web page is evaluated again.
The default listing information
comes from the first 80 characters of your web page's title, and the
first 230 characters of your web page's meta-description tag. If
there is no meta description, the first 230 characters of the page text
will be used.
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| What is 'Q' and
how can I find it for my listing? |
| A web
page's Q value is what determines how high up the listings the web page
will be listed. Q values range from 0.0 to 10.0 and you can view
the Q values for web pages by either using the listing
search page or by holding your mouse over the URL on the search
results page after a search is performed.
Q is determined when a listing is
evaluated and because it is determined by human editors and the
criteria used for evaluation changes from time to time, a listings Q
can vary even it the listing itself has not changed. Premiere
listings always have a Q of 9.0 or greater.
You may find it helpful to view
these tips on how to improve your web page's Q
value.
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| Can
I change the image used with my listing? |
| Yes, by
changing the way that your web page looks, and requesting that it be re-evaluated. |
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| Can
I remove my email address so that I no longer receive email from
NetBizCommunity.com? |
| Absolutely.
We only want to send email notifications to those who want to receive
them! Simply go to here and
enter the email address or addresses that you wish to remove from your
listings.
In the future, if you submit a web
page URL again using this email address, you will again enable the
email address to receive notifications.
Please note: There are some
special features of NetBizCommunity.com that may no longer be available
to you after removing your email from your listings.
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| What
information should I put in the Comments when I submit a URL? |
| Anything
you would like, literally! The majority of the feedback we
receive regarding what is liked and what is disliked about
NetBizCommunity.com is received through the submission comments.
If you like something on NetBizCommunity.com, let us know. If you
don't like something or you want to see something added, let us know
that as well. Every comment is read by several people.
Because the listings are rated
grouped programmatically, categorizations and descriptions included in
the comments do not normally have an effect on listings.
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| Can I
place my listing under several different categories? |
| No, each
listing can be placed under only 1 category, 1 country and 1 postal
code. You may submit different pages of your web site to
different categories, but please be aware that incorrectly categorized
listings will be removed. You may find it useful to view our directory overview. |
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| The
description in my listing appears differently in a search than it does
in my confirmation email, a listing search, or in the directory.
Why is this? |
| The listing
description that is displayed in the confirmation email, the listing
search, and the directory is the default description. When a
keyword search is performed and your listing is displayed, the text
from first part of the web page that contains one of the search terms
is displayed. This is not a bug, but a feature, since most people
expect to see their search terms in their search results. |
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