Submission Guidelines.

Titles

1. Do give the official name of the site as the title.
2. Do contain the full form and acronym if the business, organization or other entity is known by both, and both are used on your site.
3. Do have the first letter of each word in the title capitalized, except for articles, prepositions or conjunctions unless they begin the site title or a new part of a compound title.
4. Do not include superfluous keywords, unnecessary symbols and letters, company slogans or promotional language as part of the title.
5. Do not include words and phrases such as "Welcome to," "Online" and "Homepage of" or "Website" at the beginning or end of a title if it is not a component of the official name of the site.
6. Do not capitalize titles in their entirety.
7. Do not end with an exclamation mark or any other unnecessary punctuation.

Descriptions

1. Are concise, informative, and objective, telling end-users what they will find when they visit a web site.
• Highlight the unique subjects and contents of the site, thus allowing the user to appropriately determine relevancy.
• Include relevant and specific terms that will make it easier for the end-user to determine a site's relevancy to his/her query.
2. Use logical sentence or phrase structure and proper punctuation and capitalization to make it easier for users to read directory listings.
• Start descriptions with a capital letter and end with a period.
• Use third person pronouns whenever possible, and avoid first and second person pronouns (e.g. "you", "your", "we", "us", "our", "I", or "me") as they are too subjective.
• Check for spelling errors using the spell check tool.
• Avoid using acronyms or abbreviations unless they are commonly understood by potential users of the category.
3. Do not read like advertisements, sales pitches, opinions, or editorial reviews.
• Avoid superlatives commonly used in advertising, such as "best", "most", "greatest", or "cheapest."
• Do not use emphatic punctuation (e.g., "!!!" ), all caps to denote emphasis, ampersands ( "&" ) or ellipses ( "..." ).
• Do not give personal review of any aspect of the website.
4. Do not include excessive and unnecessary keyword repetition and other superfluous information.
• Do not repeat the entire site title.
• Do not excessively repeat the category name, keywords, phrases, or overuse adjectives.
• Do not use specific dates, prices, time-sensitive numbers, or similar information that is subject to change.
• Do not enter overused sentences and phrases, such as those starting with: "This site is...", "Site includes ..." or ending with "etc.", "and more".
• Do not include: street/mailing and e-mail addresses, nearest intersection/highway exit, telephone/fax numbers, instructions for use of answering systems, hours of operation, prices, or other URLs.

Correct URLs

1. When adding your listing, submit the URL that will bring the user to the entrance of the site.
2. The URL you are submitting must not redirect to other domain names or hosting accounts.
3. You must not submit URLs pointing to individual pages, articles, press releases or other information rather than an entry page to your site.

Guidelines for Real Estate Resources:

This specific category was made for those who manage other types of real estate search engines, listings, auctions and/or portals. When submitting your website, please follow the general submission guidelines.

General web directory owners are allowed to submit links to their real estate related categories (deeplinks) but they must be related to the topic of 36Towns' category you are submitting to.

Submission to the first level category "Resources" is disabled for featured and regular listings, only sponsors are allowed to sponosr that category.

International Real Estate Guidelines:

This category was made for international real estate companies and websites that provide information on properties outside of United States. When submitting your website, please follow the general submission guidelines. Your website must be in English to be approved.

If you dont see a country you would like to submit to, submit to "International Real Estate" top category and we will add your country while reviewing your submission.

Submission to the first level category "International Real Estate" is disabled for featured and regular listings, only sponsors are allowed to sponosr that category.