Reciprocal Links Directory Terms & Conditions
Setup Fee
Once your setup fee is processed we will begin to process your work order within 24 hours. The typical time it takes to conduct research for your web site and to set up the Reciprocal Link crawler takes approximately 5 business days. The entire process is dependant upon finding and attaining other similar type products and/or services web sites and getting those sites to link back to yours.
The process is of a developmental nature and is designed to grow and build through time as the link crawler seeks and finds the most highly rated and popular sites and to get them to link back to you.
Requirements
You will need to upload the entire directory to a section within your web site. It can be a simple link to the directory pages or as visible as you wish. We can upload the directory for you at no cost, or send the entire project in the form of a .zip file to your webmaster for uploading
Search Engine Indexing Time Frames
The time it takes for your links pages to show up in the search engines depends on whether a page was crawled to by the engine or submitted directly. It also depends on how soon the reciprocal linking sites were crawled.
This is a rough estimate of how long each engine takes to finish crawling and indexing a web site:
Direct Hit
5 - 6 months
Google
8 - 10 weeks
Northern Light
6 - 8 weeks
Lycos
3 - 4 months
AltaVista
3 - 4 weeks
Inktomi (powers iWon, Hotbot, Canada.com,
Anzwers, MSN, 4 Anything, Bell South, CNET, Geocities, GoTo.com, ICQ Search,
Webcrawler, Mamma.com and more - 125 partners)
8 weeks - 6 months
Excite
6 months
Paid inclusion: (not included with this service - See Directory Submission for details)
Inktomi and it's 125 partners
48 hours
Yahoo!
7 days
NBCi
5 days
Google
1 hour
Goto
3 - 5 days
DMOZ (Open Directory)
3 weeks
LookSmart
2 days
DirectHit/AskJeeves
3 - 5 days
Be aware, that search engines sometimes go through various cycles of unusual operation. Excite and Infoseek, for example, have been known to index pages, rank them highly, then drop them off the index for 2 to 6 weeks, then bring them back. HotBot and AltaVista have in the past gone through several weeks when they would not list any new submissions. Like any other service, the search engines can go through times of technical difficulty so expect it when it happens or you notice anything unusual.
Additional Terms
All other details of this service are included in the Reciprocal Link Directory page which lists each package options and details.
Search Engine Placement Specialist - e-Business-Associates.com
