General submission guidelines

Our intention is to provide the Internet public with a directory of Shopping websites from the UK. We are looking for quality websites.

Directory Submission Guidelines are Subject to Change Without Notice. Submission Guidelines last modified: 2006-17-05

Do not submit your website to the Bill Biter UK Directory if...

- It is under construction.
- It is an affiliate program.
- It contains nothing more than links to third party websites.
- It is difficult to read (9/10px type) or navigate, contains broken links.
- It promotes our interpretation of what may not be considered best practices in the SEO/SEM industry.
- It advertises the use of gateway pages, doorway pages, or bridge pages, a practice which may be considered spam by the major search engines and directories as stated in their published guidelines.
- It advertises, promotes, or contains links to other website properties and/or third party affiliations that promote the service of automatic site submissions to hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of search engines, directories and/or FFA's/link farms.
- If you are running ads on primary SEO/SEM pages, we may or may not decline your submission. Our perceived implementation of the AdSense and other "website quality" indicators will determine whether a site using AdSense is accepted into the directory.
- It contains marketing language, methods, experience, or pricing structures which may mislead the visitor.
- It has little to no meaningful content; one or two pages specific to SEO/SEM, or; contains little to no original content specific to the SEO/SEM industry.
- It contains keyword stuffed HTML Comments Tags or any form of metadata abuse and/or misuse based on our interpretation of the guidelines set forth by the W3C, WAI, WCAG, Section 508, Bobby and the DCMI.
- It contains the metadata element. If your site contains any variation of the revisit-after META tag, we will decline the submission without further review. If you need to ask us why we will decline the submission, that may be further evidence that you may not qualify for a listing in the Bill Biter UK Directory.
- It advertises and/or promotes the use of third party products and/or services like those such as LinkMaps, Zeus, etc. Products and/or services such as these may be in conflict with the published Quality Guidelines of the major search engines and directories.
- Not only do the above apply, but think of it this way; if your site is not suitable for a major directory listing, then don't waste your time submitting it here. We hate to be so blunt, but the bottom line is we don't want irrelevant results cluttering the DRPs - Directory Results Pages. How serious are we? Read some of our Editor's Comments that have been sent to those who have been declined a listing.

The review process

- Overall Internet Presence
- HTML/XHTML/CSS Structure
- We are reviewing the html/xhtml/css of all websites. W3C icons or other authoritative industry icons indicating that you've validated your html, xhtml, and/or css are a plus, but not a requirement. If the W3C icons are displayed on your site, and it does not validate, we will send you one complimentary email to correct the errors or remove the icons. We suggest you verify validation before submitting your website for review.
- Make sure your content is up to date, we will decline submissions or remove existing members (with advance notice to correct the issues) if we find content that is outdated (within reason). Last modified dates on pages are a plus, but not a requirement. We highly recommend this practice. Consumers are looking for up to date information.