TalentBox.com - Submission Guidelines

By submitting a website or an article to the TalentBox.com Directory, you agree to follow the set of guidelines, rules and regulations described below as well as on other pages of our website (Terms of Service, Copyright Information, Privacy Policy, Pricing Options). It is your responsibility to ensure that your listings and articles conform to our guidelines. Failure to comply with these instructions may result in a removal of your listings or articles without notice and obviously without refunds.

We always welcome free listings, but we want you to know the difference between the two types of free submissions that are currently offered:.

- FREE links with no Follow Attribute - aka something for nothing. Yes, we will let you place your listing in our directory absolutely free! However, please keep in mind that we will NOT not show it to Google and other search engine robots that visit our website regularly. In effect, your website will not accumulate popularity points with search engines no matter how many people see your listing on our site.

- FREE links with Reciprocal - depending on how skilled you are, as little as a couple of minutes will grant you a completely free listing WITH the search engine FOLLOW Attribute. Google and other bots will notice your presence and it will count towards your PR ranking. All we ask is that you place a link to our website (http://www.talentbox.com) anywhere on your own site and no more than two clicks away from your homepage.

- BASIC - the most popular choice! For only $10 a year you get the basic "follow attribute" listing and no reciprocal link is required.

- FEATURED - this $5/month option actually places you twice in the category of your choice. Once as a basic listing and once, right at the top of all link results within that category! Most of our categories have pages upon pages of links. Thie option will put you way ahead of the competition! The amount of Featured Links per category is limited, so act quickly!

- SPONSOR - an ultimate option for serious web owners with serious websites. There is only one Sponsor allowed per page and we are very selective about which website gets to be THE FIRST listing our visitors see when navigating through our categories.

As FREE listings, we will only accept links to top-level-domain websites that are fully developed and with content that matches our categories. For PAID SUBMISSIONS, sub-level domains are allowed. Websites that are "Under Construction", as well as parked pages, redirects, and certain types of "mini" sites will be rejected.

Links to websites and/or articles that contain or promote any of the following material will not be accepted to our directory under any circumstances:

- Copyright Infringement - Pyramids and Ponzi Schemes - Adult Oriented and Pornographic Materials - Escort Services - Counterfeit Goods - Narcotics and Drug Paraphernalia - Racism, Hate and Prejudice - Crime and Violence - Computer Virus, Malware and Spyware

Although we carefully examine every website before adding it to our directory, it is impossible to fully analyze the content of every listing. In some rare cases, we accept link requests that look legit and then receive complaints from users about questionable contents that we failed to notice. We reserve the right to remove these types of links without notice. In case of paid submissions, no refund will be offered as it is entirely up to website owners to make sure that the entire contents of their listings are in compliance with our guidelines, regulations and rules.

It is up to you to make sure that all the information you include with your listing is complete and accurate. As a registered user of our service you will be able to edit, correct and remove your listings at any time, all we ask is that you adhere to the following instructions:

- TITLE - must be short, concise - in most cases it should be either your own name, your stage name, your band's name, the name of your business, or the official name of the website you are listing.

- URL - we will allow sub-level domains for PAID SUBMISSIONS only, FREE listings must be top-level, no exceptions. Examples: Top Level Domain: www.yourname.com Sub Level Domain: www.yourname.com/abc

- DESCRIPTION - must be accurate and without false claims. We understand that this is your tool to attract potential visitors to your site, however do not exaggerate facts and do not include statements and claims that you are not able to prove. Stay away from such terms as "the best", "the biggest", "the only", "the largest", "the cheapest", etc. We reserve the right to edit or entirely reject or remove listings with descriptions that are evidently false. Currently, we only accept descriptions in English.

- META INFORMATION - filling out the meta tags and the meta description fields will give you a better exposure to search engines. Whatever you include here is what the search engine robots will read - do not use keywords that have nothing to do with your listing, or the bots may get upset and abandon your listing altogether!

- CATEGORIES - although we allow you to place your listing in as many as three (3) categories it does NOT mean that you have to place it in all of them. Choose ONLY the ones that absolutely match the subject matter of your listing, even if it means only one. Submissions that clearly show no effort in trying to place in appropriate categories will be promptly rejected or deleted.

- CONTACT - providing the exact address will automatically generate a Google map for your listing. Think twice before you do so! Do you really want the world to know where you are? It is a great option for businesses, but it is not recommended for individuals (we will remove your contact information if we decide that your security may be in jeopardy)

- EMAIL ADDRESS - make sure that you provide a valid address! Without being able to accept messages from us, none of your listing will ever be confirmed and will NEVER appear in our directory. Check your mail as soon as you submit or edit your listings. If you do not see any messages from us, be sure to check your JUNK folder.

Yes, we do accept affiliate and referral URLs, but only as paid submissions. The content of the site must fully match the description supplied with the listing, and it also has to be thematically tied to your category choice within our Directory.

We expect our listings to be active at all times. Links to websites that fail to resolve and are offline for extended periods of time will be, at our own discretion, temporarily disabled or completely removed from our Directory. If you expect your site to be offline for a considerable amount of time, please let us know ahead of time and we will temporarily disable your listing until you inform us that your site is back online (Paid Submissions only)

All registered users have unlimited access to their listings and articles, and all listings and articles may be edited and/or removed by their owners at any time.

There will be no refunds if you remove Paid submissions. We may however, at our sole discretion, offer you the opportunity to submit another listing if your balance is substantial enough.

email: copyright@talentbox.com

mail:
TalentBox.com
att: copyright concerns
264 81st Street
Brooklyn, NY 11209
U.S.A