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Pasi Technologies Linking Policies
Our goal with our links listing is to create targeted, useful listings that will be of real value to the people who use our site. Everything below is meant to support that goal.
We encourage people to rate and comment on sites in order to help others better find sites they'd enjoy and find useful. This means we'd prefer for comments to be polite and related to the quality of a site or its content or services. We will not tolerate flame wars, hateful or discriminatory material, and other such behavior. We can and will ban any user who engages in such behavior. Do not try to find a way around the restriction on voting (you can only vote once per site per year).
Guests (users who don't have accounts) can submit suggestions for links, and they can rate links--but that's pretty much all they can do. If you want to leave comments or be able to edit the links you submit then you'll need an account. Accounts are free and easy to sign up for.
We want this to be a useful resource for all of you. Please don't abuse that. Keep things friendly.
Procedures for Putting Your Link in Our Directory
Our links directory is pretty automated; go there and submit your link under the correct category and subcategory (you'll find a "suggest new link" link under the categories). If you think there needs to be a new category or subcategory you can request that first. However, there are a few caveats to this whole process.
- Editing your link: If you want to be able to edit your link, you'll need to sign up for an account before you submit your link, and be logged in when you submit it. It's free and easy. See below for instructions if your link is already in the directory and you don't have ownership of it.
- Approval: All links must be approved by an admin before they will go up. Please be patient; sometimes we're busy.
- Categorization: Submit your link under one category--whichever one is most relevant. Later, once it has been included in the listing, you cannot alias it to another category if necessary--don't spam the categories. The directory has a great search function, so list your features and services and people will find you.
- Sub-categories: We know there's overlap between categories, but we really do appreciate it when people put even a little bit of effort into finding the subcategory their site fits into rather than just shoving it into a top-level category or dumping it in the first sub-category with a likely word in the title. After all, as you'll notice if you look, all links are organized into sub-categories. Not submitting in a sub-category just makes it look like either you can't be bothered to use the submission process, or you're hoping to be the one link that gets top billing. Which isn't going to happen.
This means that if we have trouble figuring out what your site is trying to accomplish we might end up either rejecting it or putting it in the wrong place. So it's in your best interest to help us out a little. We really do appreciate the effort, and we'd rather that you at least try, even if you do end up picking the wrong category.
- Search for your site: Search to make sure your site isn't already in our database before submitting it, please.
- Ratings and comments: We encourage people to rate and leave comments on links. Do not attempt to delete and resubmit your link in order to get around low ratings or unfavorable comments. Do not try to find a way around the restriction on voting (you can only vote once per site per year).
- Referral links: No affiliate or referral links of any kind will be approved. See the next point.
- Behavior: When people go around looking for easy publicity they sometimes lose their heads and forget simple things. Just remember that the purpose of this directory is not to promote your site--it's to provide a useful resource listing to our customers. Your link will have a promotional benefits if you have a quality checks in place. Any behavior contrary to that purpose can get you banned from the directory.
If you can, please update your description as your site changes! We'd love to keep the listings as up-to-date as possible. If we happen to visit your site at some point and it has changed, we may edit the description or add a comment to that effect.
We take no responsibility for the content of sites we link to. It's impossible to police a links listing like this. However, we do reserve the right to refuse or remove any link at any time for any reason, including but not limited to the following:
- Adult content. (Adult themes are sometimes okay--after all we link to horror sites.)
- Illegal posting of copyrighted or trademarked material.
- A bare minimum of content meant just to get people to click on banner ads and paying links.
- A site that crashes our browser or is otherwise unusable to us, whether the code is broken or the designer uses bleeding-edge technologies that shut out many of their visitors. And no, we don't use MSIE when we check your site.
- A site that's irrelevant to what we do here.
- Attempting to camouflage a commercial site with a little "real" content and slip it into a non-commercial category. Put it where it belongs.
- While we do link to fledgling sites, if the site never actually goes anywhere we may remove it.
- We have a very low tolerance for sleaziness and manipulative tactics. VERY low. Attempting to go against the spirit of these policies is a quick way to get your link (and you) banned from the directory.
- Whim of the admins.
Link edits must also be validated by an admin, so don't attempt to use them to get around these policies.
If You're Already in the Listing and Want to Edit Your Link...
Under Consideration: Sign up for an account. Then email us your account name and the title of your site in the directory (the URL of its details page, too), and let us know that you're the admin of that site and you'd like ownership of that link. We'll transfer ownership to you and you'll be able to edit it yourself from then on.
There's one thing we want to make clear: WE DON'T CARE IF YOU LINK TO US.
Not that we wouldn't be grateful--we love it when people link to us! But when it comes to deciding whether we're going to link to you, we don't care whether you've linked to us. We have NO reciprocal linking requirement. None. Not a single bit of our decision depends on whether you link to us or not.
So stop with the manipulative tactics to get us to link to you, okay? If we're going to link to you it'll be because we think your site might be useful to our customers. It isn't going to be because you told us at great and flowery length what a favor we'd be doing each other by swapping links.
(To those of you who are really nice people and don't do any of these things, thank you for putting up with this rant! We love you!)
Either your site is appropriate and we'll list it, or it isn't and we won't. End of story.
The links software comes with a nifty feature that lets you activate a sponsorship option. Will be activated 6-12 months from now.
Linking to Us
Now that the whole reciprocal links thing is out of the way (you did read the above section, right? Right?) we can talk about linking to us. If you wish to link to us, thank you--we definitely appreciate it. We certainly think that we have resources of value to offer to webmasters and IT & internet users..
Although we don't mind links to sub-sections and pages within the site, we naturally prefer that people link to the main site url simply because there's no way to know for sure when or if things will change. After all, we just did a major site redesign that reorganized everything. We did our best to put in redirects, but there's always a chance we'll miss something. We do think that the new design will make it easier for people to find things they're looking for. (We almost never reorganize our site for just these reasons--in fact this is the first time, and it's out of necessity--but you never know what will happen in the future.)
If you already have a link to us on your website and it doesn't lead directly to the main site url, please update it to do so, and thank you! (Or at least update it to lead to the new url of the site segment you want to link to.)
We do have some nifty new banners and buttons. If you see one you like and want to use it to link to us, please feel free to download it and use it for that purpose (and only for that purpose). There are a few extras below. Please don't serve the banner from our site, however--our bandwidth isn't infinite.
If you want a short description to go with our link, you can use something like the following: " Pasi Technologies provides Linux Server Administration, Training and Web Hosting Support outsourcing."
If you have a mandatory reciprocal linking policy, don't bother to link to us. We really don't want to get another email telling us that so-and-so has linked to us and that they'll continue to do so if we link to them. Again, our link approval process is based strictly on relevance and merit.
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