And hire an editor, too

Our goal is to make [service name] a highly relevant source for finding information. Our topic structure is unique built from the ground up by staff and we do not use volunteers in the directory.

All listings require a review fee for possible inclusion. A paid review does not guarantee inclusion it only guarantees a staff member will review your listing to see if it meets submission policy. Your submission must meet submission guidelines to be accepted.

Please email Staff

• If you still have questions
• You want to suggest a new category

Thank your for your interest with our spider. [Company’s] spider is in its beta stages right now and it may come visit your site from time to time. We follow the rules of robots.txt and do not try to ‘spam’ your website with too many requests at a time. For information on how to control access to your pages by spiders in general here is a good starting point www.robotstxt.org. If you notice our spider misbehaving please contact us at [spider@domain] (attach log file entries of our spider if possible).

We use Google Sitemaps to inform Google’s crawler about all your pages and to help people discover more of your web pages.

All submissions require a one time review fee of $39.99. This money is used to promote the directory and to cover our daily operations cost. Buy promoting the directory we promote all listings in the directory. This alone makes a listing very valuable. Five years from now we will still be using submission funds to promote the directory so your one time review fee is a very good long term investment that could bring you traffic for years to come. We will not remove your listing from the directory unless the url pulls a 404 page or fails to meet continued inclusion guidelines.

1. If your service require[s] a review fee, why is your spider visiting my site in the first place?
2. Your spider reports the following User-Agent: [CompanyName] (Spider; [company domain]/spider.html; [spider@domain]). What name is used to exclude your spider using robots.txt, CompanyName or Spider? Did you consider that Spider is an excessive generic term?
3. An additional word in each topic (sample: Arts & Humanities; Business & Industry; Careers & Employment; Computers & Internet) does not a unique structure make.
4. I highly doubt you’re informing Google’s crawler about anything; and if you are, why have your own spider in the first place?
5. You don’t use volunteers for your unique structure, but want me to define your categories for you?
6. You’re allowing me the privilege of paying for your operations costs while building your directory for you. That’s a sweet deal… but somehow I don’t think a 404 is the thing being pulled.

No link to the offending site, even using a vote-against relation.