Editorial Guidelines
Submission Service is not responsible for indexing
a URL for any reason including without limitation
the following:
The posting of content or the offering of products or
services that may be or are illegal. · The fraudulent
use of the Service.
The infringement of the rights of
a third party. In response to a court order or
other judicial or governmental request or action.
Spam Guidelines
Submission Service is not responsible for indexing
a URL if we detect evidence of misuse of our
service.
Misuse of services may take
the form of any deceptive, misleading or otherwise inappropriate
act or web page designed to undermine (a) our services,
or (b) the validity or credibility of Search Engine results.
Acts of Spamming and Churning may take many forms, all of
which fall within the scope of "misuse." The following
are examples of forms of Spamming:
URL's which harm accuracy, diversity or relevance of search results
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URL's whose sole purpose is
to direct the user to another page ·
URL's which have substantially the same content as other pages ·
URL's for sites with numerous, unnecessary
virtual hostnames ·
URL's for pages which automatically
generate other pages of little value ·
URL's for pages that use methods to artificially inflate search engine ranking ·
URL's for pages that hide or disguise
text from the user ·
Spider spoofing - serving
a different page to a spider to index than is served
to the real user (cloaking) ·
| Cross-linking sites excessively, to inflate
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URL's for pages built primarily for the
search engines (Doorway)
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URL's that misuse names or trademarks of competitors ·
Employing multiple sites which each offer the same content
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Employing highly similar pages
- pages that appear from the search results to be highly
similar ·
URL's for pages that are deceptive, fraudulent or provide
a poor user experience ·
Abusing META keyword tags and/or
META Descriptions ·
Abusing file path names;
which is, naming domain, hostname, path and/or filenames
exactly what the query says when the page itself is
not about the subject matter of the query.
These largely contains links to e-commerce-related/porn or other off-topic content ·
Submitting URL's for pages containing
international Spam; which is inappropriately
high relevancy for non-native language documents for
native language queries.
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The URL
must resolve to an operational
Web page. It may not generate error messages such
as "File not Found." ·
The Web page
must be accessible and
not require a username, password, cookie or other
authentication in order to access.
The web page
must be accessible to
our partner's spider and must not reside on a secure
server (eg https://), use any blocking technologies (such
as robots.txt files), or require a username, password,
cookie or
other authentication.
The Web page
must permit so called
"spidering" technology, such as not excluding the
URL by use of a "robots.txt" file.
The Web page
must contain visible
text (not graphics only).
The URL may not contain the following:
Non-printing characters (ASCII value 0-31) o Spaces (32)
International characters (ASCII
value 127-255)
Foreign characters: @, !, $, ^, *, (, ), ~, `@ ! $ ^ * (
) ~ ` (ASCII values 64, 33, 36, 94, 42, 40, 41, 126, 96)
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The URL itself
must not exceed 255
characters.
The URL
should not use JavaScript or other scripts to load a substitute
URL.
No more than
one level of redirection
should be required to retrieve the page.
