What is your intent for having a website? Are you looking to sell something? Is it a personal blog? What are your future plans?

When an editor visits your site to consider it for inclusion having the following will help:

1. About Page
2. Contact Page
3. Obvious Intent

What should be included in an about page?

An about page introduces you to your visitors, it should include your name and a description of what your site is about. Think of the about page as an introduction to your websites content.

Why should I have a contact page?

A contact pages shows that you are serious about what you do. If people do not have any way of contacting you they will think you do not stand behind your website.

What is your websites intent?

What is the purpose of your website? If it is to become the king of “blue widgets” say so, there is nothing wrong with establishing goals in an honest way. One thing that can get you thrown out of any quality directory is to bait and switch.

There have been many good sites ruined by webmasters who buy them to spam in search engines. Stating your goals and intent in your about page is a great way to build important trust in search engines, this also makes people want to link to you and visit your site again and again.

Bonus: A physical address also shows ownership and authority though it is not required.

If you have good intent we will gladly included your site in this directory, our goal is to build the highest quality directory yet, one site at a time.

It is clear that there are individuals who are submitting multiple sites to our directory that interlink (or are planned to interlink in the future) to boost search engine rankings. We only allow multiple site submissions if they are unique in theme. So in other words if you are selling “car covers” and have 10 sites all offering the same product you must only submit your main site. This directory was not made to help you own a niche using unfair practices.

Example of correct use of multiple sites:

MyPlasmaArt was accepted to our directory even when we detected that it was owned by a company offering a plasma cutting machine on another website interlinked. We accepted this submission fully knowing this was a clever marketing strategy because the “art” site was different in theme. The plasma art site was made for people to submit projects and discuss the subject in general so even if it’s intent is to boost the main sites rankings in search engines, it offers something unique and useful.

Simply stated, multiple sites will only be accepted if they clearly state ownership and are different in theme.

The Environmental Directory is now sorting through current submissions and has removed 99% of them because they are clearly spam. The websites that were accepted and included in the directory are under a probationary period and will be monitored closely. We do this to ensure quality.

This is an area reserved for future editors; I will start out giving examples of the quality of websites that are accepted (and denied) into The Environmental Directory to give an idea of what I am looking for.