Spain and Portugal for Visitors

Posted by : John Ross on Sep 28, 2007 - 01:12 PM sitenews

Seen a great page about Spain or Portugal you think everyone should know about? Or you want your own site included in the SPV web links directory? It's easy, and I have removed the restrictions on submissions to the Web Links directory, at least for the moment. I had to to impose them because spammers were making my life a misery, but too many people have found them too difficult to get round. So you can now submit your link(s) without even signing in by clicking the Submit Link link, but it would be nice if you could take the trouble to look through these guidelines first - it might even make the difference between your link being accepted or not.

All you have to do to submit your link is click here and follow the instructions. But PLEASE READ THIS FIRST. I have to review your submissions as no-one else wants to do it, and to tell the truth, I have enough to do without editing them, I do not owe you any favours, and it is usually easier for me just to delete your submssion than to spend time putting it right. I know that sounds snotty, but I really, really can't afford to spend more time on this site than I do. If your link is accepted, you should receive an e-mail to that effect, and if you do not, it is probably because you haven't followed the guidelines below.

- Spain and Portugal for Visitors does NOT take part in link exchanges of any kind, for many reasons.

- Please make it easy for me, really easy.

- Link annotations are not advertisements. I do include links to commercial websites, but the links directory exists to provide hard information, and a link annotation should contain information, not advertising. Simply tell the reader what he or she can expect to find on the web page or site the link goes to, don't pitch it or hype. If you write your text as if it were an advertisement, you oblige me to rewrite it or delete your link, and I will probably delete, sorry.

- If you have a single property to rent, or even one or two, consider using the SPV classifieds instead. I do intend to start adding villas and apartments to the links directory again, but I don't know when and, dash it, that's what the classifieds are for.

- Where you are asked for a title, put a title, the name of the web page or site the link goes to. Come on, this isn't rocket science, it is obvious that "Beautiful affordable village houses to rent in the stunning Axarquia" would not be not acceptable as a title, even if it were not guilty of hyping. I would delete it immediately.

- Write a more or less grammatical description and check your spelling. I really haven't got time to proofread.

Don't overuse capital letters, either. If you submit an entry like the following, I will have to rewrite it from scratch or delete it, and you will have gathered that I usually prefer to delete: "Search 4000+ TEFL job postings for positions in Portugal and Spain! XXXX.com is the Web's first vertical search portal for ESL/EFL teachers. FREE job board, resume post, news ticker, LESSON PLANS, teachers blogs, classified ads, DISCUSSION FORUM and much more."

- It doesn't matter if you don't find the perfect category for your site, I am prepared to do that for you, and if your link is of real interest to SPV's users, I can even make a suitable category. But you could do me a favour and take the trouble to look around and check that there isn't a suitable category already.

- The SPV links directory is mostly in English. If you submit a description in Spanish, that is fine. I may translate it and have the two languages side by side, or I might well leave it as it is.

- If your site is obviously not relevant to Spain and Portugal for Visitors, forget it. For example, if your website has to do with the expat community in Finland, it does not belong on Spain and Portugal for Visitors. But if you are not sure, please go ahead and submit - I don't bite. Often.

- Having said that, and if your site is relevant, it would be nice if you could link back (from a page with a respectable Google PR please - if you really don't know what I am talking about, it doesn't matter). This is not a condition, but I will give preference to sites linking to SPV (it doesn't matter whether you link to the SPV homepage or any of the inside pages). In that case, please leave a message in the forum or use the feedback form. Only e-mail me at webmaster AT spainforvisitors.com in case of absolute necessity.

- You can enter your e-mail if you want to be notified when your site is approved, but you can leave the box blank if you are privacy anal.

- If you would like to be able to edit your link description at a later date, you will have to become a member of the site: the link is at the bottom of the page, on the left. I recommend it. Yo needn't t worry about your privacy, your details are completely confidential and I undertake not to disclose them to anyone.

I think that's all - if you have any problems, just let me know. Here is the Submit Link link again, in case you are too lazy to scroll back to the top of the page. Don't say I haven't made it easy for you. So make it easy for me. Please.