{"id":602,"date":"2006-02-25T21:25:07-05:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-26T02:25:07+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2006\/02\/25\/and-hire-an-editor-too\/"},"modified":"2006-02-25T21:25:07-05:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-26T02:25:07+00:00","slug":"and-hire-an-editor-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2006\/02\/25\/and-hire-an-editor-too\/","title":{"rendered":"And hire an editor,&nbsp;too"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><blockquote><p>Our goal is to make [service name] a highly relevant source for finding information. <b>Our topic structure is unique<\/b> built from the ground up by staff and we do not use volunteers in the directory.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b>All listings require a review fee for possible inclusion.<\/b> 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n<blockquote><p>Please email Staff<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>If you still have questions<\/li>\r\n<li><b>You want to suggest a new category<\/b><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n<blockquote><p>Thank your for your interest with our spider. [Company&#8217;s] spider is in its beta stages right now and <b>it may come visit your site from time to time<\/b>. We follow the rules of robots.txt and do not try to &#8216;spam&#8217; 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robotstxt.org\/wc\/robots.html\">www.robotstxt.org<\/a>. If you notice our spider misbehaving please contact us at [spider@domain] (attach log file entries of our spider if possible).<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n<blockquote><p>We use Google Sitemaps to <b>inform Google&#8217;s crawler about all your pages<\/b> and to help people discover more of your web pages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n<blockquote><p>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. <b>Buy promoting the directory we promote all listings in the directory. This alone makes a listing very valuable.<\/b> 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. <b>We will not remove your listing from the directory unless the url pulls a 404 page<\/b> or fails to meet continued inclusion guidelines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<ol>\r\n<li>If your service <q>require[s] a review fee<\/q>, why is your spider visiting my site in the first place?<\/li>\r\n<li>Your spider reports the following <code>User-Agent<\/code>: <code>[CompanyName] (Spider; [company domain]\/spider.html; [spider@domain])<\/code>.  What name is used to exclude your spider using <code>robots.txt<\/code>, <code>CompanyName<\/code> or <code>Spider<\/code>?  Did you consider that <code>Spider<\/code> is an excessive generic term?<\/li>\r\n<li>An additional word in each topic (sample: <q>Arts &amp; Humanities<\/q>; <q>Business &amp; Industry<\/q>; <q>Careers &amp; Employment<\/q>; <q>Computers &amp; Internet<\/q>) does not a <q>unique<\/q> structure make.<\/li>\r\n<li>I highly doubt you&#8217;re informing <q>Google&#8217;s crawler<\/q> about anything; and if you are, why have your own spider in the first place?<\/li>\r\n<li>You don&#8217;t use volunteers for your <q>unique<\/q> structure, but want me to define your categories for you?<\/li>\r\n<li>You&#8217;re allowing me the <cite class=\"term sarcasm\">privilege<\/cite> of paying for your operations costs while building your directory for you.  That&#8217;s a sweet deal&#8230; but somehow I don&#8217;t think a 404 is the thing being <q>pulled<\/q>.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n\r\n<p>No link to the offending site, even using a <a href=\"http:\/\/microformats.org\/wiki\/votelinks-faq\"><code>vote-against<\/code><\/a> relation.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"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. 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