We established a link exchange policy because the number of e-mails we've received from
new swinger sites requesting a link exchange has steadily increased. And we thought there
are a few things you should know before requesting a link:
1)
If you have recently started a swingers dating website, you are most likely "a day late
and a dollar short". Dating websites are pretty much a dime a dozen these days. That being
said though, we still believe a new venture is worth investigating.
Just, please don't send us any lengthy information about the "thousands" of members
your site has registered in the first 3 days of operation. We both know it isn't true and it
also isn't necessary to exaggerate. If you want to do a fair link exchange, just ask honestly.
A fair trade is always fine.
2)
We've been doing this awhile now, and we truly don't need your link. We are a
successful, well known, lifestyle club. Please don't try and convince us we NEED to link up
with you. It insults both of our intelligence.
In fact, the overwhelming majority of new swinger sites severely underestimate the
costs, time and effort required to have a successful site over the long term. We check our
links regularly and the 6-month "new site attrition" currently runs about 70%. That's right,
around 7 out of 10 of you will ask us for a link today, and in six months, you’ll be gone.
3)
We don’t link to dating websites who take the members that local clubs like ours send
them, and then hold events in competition with those same local clubs. If your site is
worthy, we’ll happily host a party in your honor, but any other arrangement is a deal-
breaker.
4)
We believe in quid-pro-quo... You want a link, you provide a link. Your affiliate program is
NOT a link exchange and neither is a top-list (where we have to send you traffic BEFORE we
appear on your site).
True link exchanges work one way and one way only: You provide us with a banner or
text link and we'll put you on our links page (yes, it does get significant traffic, it's
accessible from every page of our site, and we monitor the traffic). YOU then take our
banner or text link, and also place it on an easily accessible links page of your own. We'll
check the link regularly and as long as we're still on your site, you'll still be on ours.
Now, if you would still like to be considered for Spa City Connections Exchange Partnership,
please read on:
We offer two levels of Exchange Partnership: Link Partnership and Event Partnership.
• Link Partnership: This is a simple link exchange – our Links page to your Links page,
and includes the promotion of our events on your site, and the promotion of your site in our
events.
• Event Partnership: Your link not only appears on the Links page, but we also list you
on the RSVP page. We use your site to verify the authenticity of couples who RSVP for a
party, which encourages our visitors to patronize your site. In exchange, we receive free
membership to your site so that we may view profiles and we are allowed promotion of our
events on your site. We may also host an annual party ‘in your honor’.
However, we do ask that you comply with the following membership requirements.
1. We DO NOT accept the following websites as link exchange partners:
2. Your link page(s) or other pages from which you link to our site must display an
organized structure that we deem appropriate to both human visitors and search engine
spiders. We WILL NOT exchange links with any website that has the appearance of a link
farm.
3. Your link to our website must be on a page hyperlinked directly from your home
page, on the home page itself, or on a page equivalent in stature to your home page. Link
directories occupying multiple daisy-chained pages may not be acceptable to us, as pages
near the end of the chain tend to have much lower search engine page ranks than the page
at the head of the chain. Additionally, we usually will not agree to link with a website having
more than thirty (30) links per page, as pages with an excessive number of links are not
looked upon favorably by search engines and often are not browsed deeply by visitors.
4. Your link exchange page must be an unframed HTML (HyperText Markup Language),
XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language) or SSI (Server Side Includes) formatted
page. By way of example, unframed pages with an extension of .html, .htm or .php are
acceptable, as they are known by us to be viewable by search engine spiders.
5. Your link exchange page and any page that links to it MUST NOT contain a “no index”
meta tag, a “no follow” meta tag, or any functional component that acts in a similar manner
to impede search engine robots from gaining access to outgoing links on your link exchange
page.
6. Your link to our website must be in HTML or XHTML format unless we choose to
provide you with a javascript banner. Dynamically-generated database links are not
acceptable, as these may not be accessible by search engine spiders.
7. You should establish a functional hyperlink to our website before requesting link
exchange. If, after thoroughly reading the information on this page, you have a technical
question, a question regarding your website’s eligibility for our program, or would like to
link to a page other than the home page provided in the HTML link exchange code below,
please email webmaster@spacityconnections.com . If you are especially concerned as to
whether your website will qualify, we can preview your website and pre-qualify it before
you expend the effort of establishing a link to our site. Please allow at least 48 hours for pre-
qualification.
8. When soliciting a reciprocal link from us, please adhere to the requirements of the
CAN-SPAM Act; include a valid email address and the physical address of your company. We
would also appreciate knowing your name and title or position within your company, as well
as a contact phone number.
9. Contact us to let us know you have installed a link to our website. Your contact email
must not be a mass-produced or automated email; we consider such requests to be for
“spam links” and will ordinarily not respond. (Yes, we can tell.) Write us a personal email
elucidating why a link to your website will benefit our visitors. Be sure to provide the URL
for the link so we can locate it on your site. In addition, provide a brief description (about
two sentences maximum) that you would like us to post with your link. We may shorten
your description if we feel it is too lengthy.
Upon receipt of your email requesting link exchange partnership, we will verify your link to
our website and perform one of the following actions:
• If your website qualifies for Spa City Connections Exchange Partnership, we will
install a reciprocal link to your site on our Links page (and RSVP page, if approved), usually
within 24 hours.
• We may install a content link on one or more topic pages on our site. Installation of
topic page links is at our discretion. After we have completed reciprocal link installation, we
will send you a welcoming email identifying the locations of any links we have directed to
your website.
• If we feel your website does not qualify for inclusion in our program, we will notify
you by email, informing you of the reasons why we did not accept your site. If at a future
date you feel that your website complies with our Website Requirements for Link Exchange,
you may reapply for admission. Note that we will not respond to any request for what we
feel is a spam link (automated or mass-produced request).
• We may ask you to modify or correct certain aspects of your link to us or the page
from which you link to us in order to gain acceptance to our program. You may choose to
comply with this request and inform us of such compliance, discuss the situation with us
further to seek clarification or to convince us that we should modify our decision, or
abandon your request for a reciprocal link from us.
• We may grant your website conditional approval for a specified period of time. If this
is done, we will inform you of any concerns we have that have prompted the conditional
status. After the time period specified has elapsed, we will reevaluate the situation that
prompted the conditional status to make a final determination as to whether your website
will be granted full admission to our program.
If you notify us of all pages on our site to which you have linked and we later need to
relocate any of these pages, we will notify you prior to the move so you can update your
links.
In order for Spa City Connections Exchange Partners to remain in good standing in the
program, member websites must continue to conform to our stated Website Link Exchange
Policy. Links to our website must remain operational (We allow for intermittent failure due
to normal web hosting problems.) and verifiable. If you need to relocate a link to our site,
you must inform us at least five business days prior to relocation unless it is due to
emergency, in which case you must inform us as soon as possible. Members falling out of
compliance will be warned and, if they do not come back into compliance within a
reasonable period of time, will have their membership rescinded and their links terminated.
Members whose links have been terminated will not be able to reapply for partnership for a
period of six months.
Spa City Connections, a division of ItzaParty!, LLC reserves the right to modify the terms of
our Website Link Exchange Policy and our Spa City Connections Exchange Partnership
Program at any time without prior notice by posting any such modification of terms to this
page.
new swinger sites requesting a link exchange has steadily increased. And we thought there
are a few things you should know before requesting a link:
1)
If you have recently started a swingers dating website, you are most likely "a day late
and a dollar short". Dating websites are pretty much a dime a dozen these days. That being
said though, we still believe a new venture is worth investigating.
Just, please don't send us any lengthy information about the "thousands" of members
your site has registered in the first 3 days of operation. We both know it isn't true and it
also isn't necessary to exaggerate. If you want to do a fair link exchange, just ask honestly.
A fair trade is always fine.
2)
We've been doing this awhile now, and we truly don't need your link. We are a
successful, well known, lifestyle club. Please don't try and convince us we NEED to link up
with you. It insults both of our intelligence.
In fact, the overwhelming majority of new swinger sites severely underestimate the
costs, time and effort required to have a successful site over the long term. We check our
links regularly and the 6-month "new site attrition" currently runs about 70%. That's right,
around 7 out of 10 of you will ask us for a link today, and in six months, you’ll be gone.
3)
We don’t link to dating websites who take the members that local clubs like ours send
them, and then hold events in competition with those same local clubs. If your site is
worthy, we’ll happily host a party in your honor, but any other arrangement is a deal-
breaker.
4)
We believe in quid-pro-quo... You want a link, you provide a link. Your affiliate program is
NOT a link exchange and neither is a top-list (where we have to send you traffic BEFORE we
appear on your site).
True link exchanges work one way and one way only: You provide us with a banner or
text link and we'll put you on our links page (yes, it does get significant traffic, it's
accessible from every page of our site, and we monitor the traffic). YOU then take our
banner or text link, and also place it on an easily accessible links page of your own. We'll
check the link regularly and as long as we're still on your site, you'll still be on ours.
Now, if you would still like to be considered for Spa City Connections Exchange Partnership,
please read on:
We offer two levels of Exchange Partnership: Link Partnership and Event Partnership.
• Link Partnership: This is a simple link exchange – our Links page to your Links page,
and includes the promotion of our events on your site, and the promotion of your site in our
events.
• Event Partnership: Your link not only appears on the Links page, but we also list you
on the RSVP page. We use your site to verify the authenticity of couples who RSVP for a
party, which encourages our visitors to patronize your site. In exchange, we receive free
membership to your site so that we may view profiles and we are allowed promotion of our
events on your site. We may also host an annual party ‘in your honor’.
However, we do ask that you comply with the following membership requirements.
1. We DO NOT accept the following websites as link exchange partners:
 | Hate websites; | |
| Gambling websites; | |
| Websites that knowingly attempt to download browser add-ons, pop-up generators or | |
| active spyware without explicit visitor consent; | ||
| Websites that knowingly attempt to download any computer security threat such as | |
| active spyware, viruses or worms; | ||
| Any non-themed website such as link farms and content-poor advertising sites, | |
| including sites whose primary content is third-party advertising; | ||
| Websites with undesirable behaviors such as excessive pop-ups, irritating graphics | |
| such as rapidly flashing banner ads, or browser hijacking; | ||
| Any website that we feel is not in keeping with the spirit and themes of Spa City | |
| Connections website. |
2. Your link page(s) or other pages from which you link to our site must display an
organized structure that we deem appropriate to both human visitors and search engine
spiders. We WILL NOT exchange links with any website that has the appearance of a link
farm.
3. Your link to our website must be on a page hyperlinked directly from your home
page, on the home page itself, or on a page equivalent in stature to your home page. Link
directories occupying multiple daisy-chained pages may not be acceptable to us, as pages
near the end of the chain tend to have much lower search engine page ranks than the page
at the head of the chain. Additionally, we usually will not agree to link with a website having
more than thirty (30) links per page, as pages with an excessive number of links are not
looked upon favorably by search engines and often are not browsed deeply by visitors.
4. Your link exchange page must be an unframed HTML (HyperText Markup Language),
XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language) or SSI (Server Side Includes) formatted
page. By way of example, unframed pages with an extension of .html, .htm or .php are
acceptable, as they are known by us to be viewable by search engine spiders.
5. Your link exchange page and any page that links to it MUST NOT contain a “no index”
meta tag, a “no follow” meta tag, or any functional component that acts in a similar manner
to impede search engine robots from gaining access to outgoing links on your link exchange
page.
6. Your link to our website must be in HTML or XHTML format unless we choose to
provide you with a javascript banner. Dynamically-generated database links are not
acceptable, as these may not be accessible by search engine spiders.
We have provided HTML link exchange code below. Our banner in .jpg, .gif, or other
format is available for you upon request. Please use the website description we
provide. However, if your link exchange structure consists of hyperlinks without
descriptive text, the text may be excluded to conform to your existing format.
7. You should establish a functional hyperlink to our website before requesting link
exchange. If, after thoroughly reading the information on this page, you have a technical
question, a question regarding your website’s eligibility for our program, or would like to
link to a page other than the home page provided in the HTML link exchange code below,
please email webmaster@spacityconnections.com . If you are especially concerned as to
whether your website will qualify, we can preview your website and pre-qualify it before
you expend the effort of establishing a link to our site. Please allow at least 48 hours for pre-
qualification.
8. When soliciting a reciprocal link from us, please adhere to the requirements of the
CAN-SPAM Act; include a valid email address and the physical address of your company. We
would also appreciate knowing your name and title or position within your company, as well
as a contact phone number.
9. Contact us to let us know you have installed a link to our website. Your contact email
must not be a mass-produced or automated email; we consider such requests to be for
“spam links” and will ordinarily not respond. (Yes, we can tell.) Write us a personal email
elucidating why a link to your website will benefit our visitors. Be sure to provide the URL
for the link so we can locate it on your site. In addition, provide a brief description (about
two sentences maximum) that you would like us to post with your link. We may shorten
your description if we feel it is too lengthy.
Upon receipt of your email requesting link exchange partnership, we will verify your link to
our website and perform one of the following actions:
• If your website qualifies for Spa City Connections Exchange Partnership, we will
install a reciprocal link to your site on our Links page (and RSVP page, if approved), usually
within 24 hours.
• We may install a content link on one or more topic pages on our site. Installation of
topic page links is at our discretion. After we have completed reciprocal link installation, we
will send you a welcoming email identifying the locations of any links we have directed to
your website.
• If we feel your website does not qualify for inclusion in our program, we will notify
you by email, informing you of the reasons why we did not accept your site. If at a future
date you feel that your website complies with our Website Requirements for Link Exchange,
you may reapply for admission. Note that we will not respond to any request for what we
feel is a spam link (automated or mass-produced request).
• We may ask you to modify or correct certain aspects of your link to us or the page
from which you link to us in order to gain acceptance to our program. You may choose to
comply with this request and inform us of such compliance, discuss the situation with us
further to seek clarification or to convince us that we should modify our decision, or
abandon your request for a reciprocal link from us.
• We may grant your website conditional approval for a specified period of time. If this
is done, we will inform you of any concerns we have that have prompted the conditional
status. After the time period specified has elapsed, we will reevaluate the situation that
prompted the conditional status to make a final determination as to whether your website
will be granted full admission to our program.
If you notify us of all pages on our site to which you have linked and we later need to
relocate any of these pages, we will notify you prior to the move so you can update your
links.
In order for Spa City Connections Exchange Partners to remain in good standing in the
program, member websites must continue to conform to our stated Website Link Exchange
Policy. Links to our website must remain operational (We allow for intermittent failure due
to normal web hosting problems.) and verifiable. If you need to relocate a link to our site,
you must inform us at least five business days prior to relocation unless it is due to
emergency, in which case you must inform us as soon as possible. Members falling out of
compliance will be warned and, if they do not come back into compliance within a
reasonable period of time, will have their membership rescinded and their links terminated.
Members whose links have been terminated will not be able to reapply for partnership for a
period of six months.
Spa City Connections, a division of ItzaParty!, LLC reserves the right to modify the terms of
our Website Link Exchange Policy and our Spa City Connections Exchange Partnership
Program at any time without prior notice by posting any such modification of terms to this
page.
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