Directory Submission Guidelines
Improving the chances of getting your site approved
Every directory has their own set of guidelines that they follow when approving sites. Following below is the guidelines My Searchplace general directory's admin uses in deciding wheter a site is suitable or not. Ensuring that you follow these guidelines when submitting your site will give you a better chance of getting approved.
Title
Description
Keywords
Category
Url / Domain
Email
Site Content
Title of your Site
Titles
*We do not allow the use of keywords in the title and only allow for the company or website name. In such instances, you should only use the official name of your site without any keywords.
*THE TITLE SHOULD NOT BE IN ALL UPPER CASE.
*Avoid the use of an exclamation mark ‘!’ in the title.
Description
*Do not mention any pricing details or any other promotional details that are subject to change with time.
*The description should ideally just describe what the site offers (you may include features and benefits as long as it doesn’t make the description sound too promotional)
*We don't want you to mention a phone number and address details in the description, there are special fields for it.
*Do not Capitalizing The First Letter Of Every Word In Your Description.
*Do not end your description with ‘and others’ or ‘etc’ or even ‘…’
*NO HTML in the description field
Keywords
*We aren’t too strict about what you enter in the keywords field but just make sure you don’t repeat any keyword more than once.
*We require you to enter each keyword separated by a comma, e.g. keyword1, keyword2.
Category
*We don't mind which category you choose for your site, but good advice would be to submit it to the correct category to make it easier for people to find.
Url / Domain
*Submit the domain or url in the correct format.http://www.mydomain.com
*Do not submit parked domains and domains that have no content
*Do not submit domains that redirect to another site.
*Unless you choose a sponsored deal, only submit your home page url and not a url pointing to one of your inner pages.
*There is no need to enter a slash ‘/’ at the end of the url.
*We do not accept domains hosted on free hosting services or domains that are not registered – avoid submitting these kind of domains.
Email
*No sites where the email address included belongs to a free account like yahoo, hotmail or gmail will be accepted.
*It is preferable to include the email address of your site domain.
*We do not share or sell email addresses, its only for our own records and no spam will ever be sent to you.
Site Content
We are very particular about about the following, and the admin will strictly inspect every site:
*Never submit a site that is under construction or is about to launch. Make sure your site is fully operational before you have it submitted.
*Do not submit sites that have no content.
*It is preferable for your site to have a few pages.
*Your site should have a substantial amount of content and not be full of affiliate links or contain just ads all over.
*No sites with ‘mirror content’, i.e. sites having the same content but different domains.
*NO PORNOGRAPHIC SITES OF ANY NATURE WILL BE EXCEPTED. We make it our business to report any porn sites we feel deserve it. So for your own good - DON'T TRY US!!!!
We do get plenty of submissions a day and it could take just one reason for one of our admin to reject your site. So be careful and try and stick as close to the guidelines as possible.
