| TrafficDriver
Editorial Guidelines... |
| Anglia
Webmaster reserves the right not to
index or submit a URL, for any reason,
including: |
- illegal content, services
or products.
- fradulent attempts to gain
an unmerited search engine
ranking (search engine spamming).
- third party rights infringement.
- instruction by a court,
judicial or governmental order,
request or action.
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| Search
engine spamming... |
| If
we believe the URL you wish to submit
attempts to misuse our services or makes
use of fraudulent techniques to achieve
an unmerited search engine ranking,
we will not index or submit it. Misuse
of our services includes any deceptive,
misleading or otherwise inappropriate
act or web page, designed to undermine
our services or the validity and credibility
of search engine results. |
| Examples
of misuse... |
| Misuse
includes URLs that: |
- harm the accuracy, diversity
or relevance of search results.
- have the sole purpose of
directing the user to another
page.
- have substantially the same
content as other pages.
- have numerous, unnecessary
virtual hostnames.
- have pages which automatically
generate other pages of little
value.
- use methods to artificially
inflate search engine ranking.
- have pages that hide or
disguise text from the user.
- serve a different page to
a spider than is served to
a real user.
- cross-links sites excessively,
to inflate a site's apparent
popularity.
- have pages built primarily
for search engines.
- misuse names or trademarks
of competitors.
- employ multiple sites which
each offer the same content.
- employ highly similar pages
- pages that appear from the
search results to be highly
similar.
- include pages which are
deceptive, fraudulent or provide
a poor user experience.
- abuse meta keyword tags
and/or meta descriptions.
- abuse file path names -
i.e. the text within the URL
does not relate to the content
of the
page.
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| Definition
of misuse will be decided on a case
by case basis and is not limited to
the examples given above. |
