-Nick-

Below is the list of Guidelines and rules for Advertising and SEO section.

Buyers And Sellers
Commenting / Bumping / Questions

• Pm Sent / Thanks etc. types comment is NOT allowed
• Any Traffic? / Can you Prove any Revenue? etc. type questions to the OP IS allowed
• Bumps and glorified bumps (status updates) are once per 24 hours (unless otherwise stated in section rules)
• Answering questions of potential buyers is NO LONGER considered a bump - This IS Allowed now
• Thread crashing posts that may deliberately hinder a members ability to sell a domain is NOT Allowed
• Educational comments that may help a newer domainer understand the industry and it's risks are questionable. (each situation will be evaluated separately)

Membership Posting limits

• Free Members up to 2 active Marketplace threads at a time
• Supporters up to 4 active Marketplace threads at a time
• Business Members up to 6 active Marketplace threads at a time

An "active" thread is defined as any marketplace sales thread that you wish to keep open and visible to marketplace visitors. You can keep your thread active by adding a reply yourself before the 30 day period. UPGRADE YOUR ACCOUNT

Only white-hat services allowed. No black-hat, or any other colored hats.

All general non SEO and Advertising Services goes here For Sale / Advertising.

Services that are allowed:

1) Directory submission

2) Article submission.

3) Forum posting. [Manual forum posting.]

4) Press release submission.

5) Real, manual genuine comments on behalf of a site owner are allowed.

6) Real, manual and genuine forum posting on behalf of a client in relevant forums is allowed.

7) Social Bookmarking is Allowed but only in their personal account. That is 1 account per 1 person and he can only bookmark a site in that account.
: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=

*Services that offer creating 100 social bookmarking accounts and pasting 100 links in each account is spam.


Services that are not allowed:

1) WHOIS Blast.

2) Comments Blast.

3) Forum profile creation.

4) Link wheels and other Social bookmarking sites.

5) Trackback blast.

6) Buying and selling of user accounts - No user accounts of any kind can be bought, sold or traded (including, but not limited to, MySpace, Facebook, RapidShare, eBay, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo!, etc.). This includes any services that promote the creation or sale of accounts in any forums, social networking sites, or anything else that involves the transfer of personal registration.
(Parking accounts are included)

7) Yahoo answers posting services.

8) Google +1, Digg first page service etc. Not allowed.
(Google and DIGG TOS prohibits this)

9) "Facebook Likes" or "Twitter Follow" incentives or services offering this feature are not permitted.
(FB and Twitter TOS prohibits this)

[All others services similar to this that might come in future will not be allowed.]


More services that will fall under this criteria will be removed and or added. Rules will be updated accordingly.



General Business Rules that you should follow:

1) Terms and conditions should be mentioned in the thread itself by the seller, mention all the facts right into the thread itself, so that there won't be issues later on.

2) Try to offer services with detailed explanation of the things you are going to do for the buyer. If you are looking to get some work done then try to write it in detail about your requirements.

3) If a seller agrees to a predefined timeframe and is not able to deliver the services in that timeframe then he is liable if buyer complains about him. If you want more time then mention it to the buyer. If buyer wants to give you more time then he can. But if he doesn't wants to give you more time then you are liable as you already agreed to finish it in a predefined time.

4) All people backing out of deals will be considered liable to pay the amount agreed for that particular deal.

5) No links to checkout services either direct to Paypal, google etc or via a "service provided" EX: ejunkie etc

6) Seller pays the Paypal Fees - Asking a buyer to pay the Paypal fees is against Paypal's Tos therefore not permitted here.


Thread Bumps and Asking for Review Copies

1) Useless bumps. Like "Thank you", "Order Received", "I am working on it", "Thanks a lot for your order" "PM sent" etc are considered as bumps.
: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=
If you want to communicate with the buyer after he purchases your services then use PM to let him know that you are thankful and working on it.
PM Sent and/or short spammy posts are not permitted and will be deleted.

2) Asking for a free review copy is not allowed. If a seller wants to give out a review copy he or she has to mention it in opening post that he or she will provide a free review copy.

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