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Submission Guidelines
The Turkey Central Internet Directory is the largest English-language directory of Turkey on the Internet. It is larger that the Yahoo Regional Directory (http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/Turkey/).
At Turkey Central, users don't get millions of irrelevant search results like they do with the automated search engines of Google, MSN, or Yahoo Search (Yahoo has both a directory and an automated search engine). Turkey Central is a directory specializing only in Turkey. Each website submitted is reviewed by a human editor to make sure we provide high-quality, relevant search results.
To be added to the Turkey Central Internet Directory, your website must meet the following minimum conditions:
- Must have English content as a substantial part of the website. If the main language of the website is Turkish, there must be a link to the English version, prominently displayed on the home page.
- Must be predominantly about Turkey or something that exists in Turkey, such as a business, city, historical site, cultural information, news, etc.
- Must not be a hotel directory or real estate directory (individual hotel websites, or real estate agency websites meeting our guidelines will be accepted) or a site primarily booking hotel reservations.
- Must have a working contact page, and business websites must have an actual office address in Turkey, with a working telephone number in Turkey.
- The link must point to the website's home page.
- Must not be a site primarily consisting of selling goods or services using affiliate programs.
- Must be up and running 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
- Must clearly define its purpose, products, or services offered.
- All links on your site must work, and the site must be complete and ready for use.
- Must not contain duplicate content which is already contained in other sites already listed in the Turkey Central Internet Directory.
- Must support multiple browsers, such as Internet Explorer, Netscape, and Firefox browsers.
- Must not contain adult content or be a site involved with pornography, hate speech, criticisms of Turkey or its founder, Ataturk, or Turkishness, or about finding sex partners, gambling, or offering escort services. The website must not be in any violation of any law in the Republic of Turkey.
- Changes to the Website itself, after submitting it, which violate the submission guidelines, may be grounds for removing your link from the directory.
Commercial For-profit Websites:
Links for commercial, for-profit websites involved in the selling or renting of any product or service meeting our guidelines will be added for a one-time fee of $20 USD (the Yahoo Directory costs $299 USD per year). This is for the website review by an editor, inclusion to the directory, and maintaining your link in the directory, and is non-refundable. Payment for a review may be made by credit card, and handled by our credit card processor, 2CheckOut. The payment is part of the link submission process. We can also accept international bank transfers. If you would like to pay by bank transfer, contact us using our contact form.
Not-for-Profit Websites:
Links for non-commercial, not-for-profit sites primarily providing information and not selling or renting any product or service for profit will get a free review and will be given a free review. If your website meets this description, contact us using our contact form.
Site Review by Editors
Each website, after payment, is reviewed by an editor. If your site meets the submission guidelines, it will be added to one or more categories of the Turkey Central Internet Directory within 10 business days. If your site is rejected, we will send you an e-mail explaining why. If you choose to make the necessary changes required, you can re-submit your website and an editor will review it again for free.
Turkey Central and its editors have the right to modify your link submission and, if necessary, change the title, description, and category to conform to our listing policies as explained on the links submission page.
Inclusion of websites in the Turkey Central Internet Directory is the sole decision of Turkey Central and its editors.