Standard Listing

Standard listings give you a link with a short description to a page on this site containing detailed information about your site/company, from all regional and category pages which are related to your listing. Links to your website will also appear on our detail page about your site/company. links to sites with standard listing will have the "nofollow" attribute attached. Standard listings are the only type of listings available to companies that do not have a website with its own domain. If you dont currently have a website, or have one that is hosted as a subdomain or section of another website, and are interested in getting one of your own, check out our local Hawaii web designers page.

Requirements

• Your site/company must relate to the topic of adventure travel in Hawaii
• You must submit your site to Hawaii Nightlife Guide.

Featured Listing

Upgrading to Featured Listing Status by placing a link to Hawaii Nightlife Guide anywhere on your listed site gives you all the benefits of the standard listing, and will remove the nofollow attribute from your links as well as qualifying you to be in the pool for a FREE block ad displayed in the top right hand corner of every page where your site applies to the content of the page. Featured Listings Ads link directly to the website of the site or company being featured. This provides you with the opportunity to have a link to your site on top level region and category pages, as well as the potential to get a link straight from the root, or homepage of hawaiinightlifeguide.com. Featured listings are also eligible to select up to two additional related categories in which their listing will be displayed.

Requirements

• Your website must relate to the topic of adventure travel in Hawaii
• You must submit your site to Hawaii Nightlife Guide.
• A hyperlink from any page on your site to your listing, city, island or category page on www.hawaiinightlifeguide.com

Preferred Listing

Upgrading to Preferred Listing Status by placing a link to Hawaii Nightlife Guide in a prominent more visible location such as a featured link section, or partners section, elevates your listing an even higher status enabling additional features. The preferred status enables the option of placing call to action buttons on your listing page. There are two currently available options. The first option is a contact us form which allows our users to fill out a contact form, the results of which can be sent to any email address of your choosing. The second option is a book now button which will take the user directly to a booking interface the URL of your choosing. You may choose either or both of these options.

Requirements

• Your website must relate to the topic of adventure travel in Hawaii
• You must submit your site to Hawaii Nightlife Guide.
• A hyperlink from a prominent link location on your site to your city, island or category page on www.hawaiinightlifeguide.com

Custom Preferred Listing

Upgrading to Custom Preferred Listing Status by placing a link to Hawaii Nightlife Guide on the home page or root of your site enables the highest possible status of custom preferred listing. Sites with a custom preferred listing status are eligible for all of the opportunities of other listing types. Beyond what any other listing type enjoys, custom listings enable exactly that, the ability to provide a customized html listing which allows additional images, additional links embedded in the content of your listing page, the addition of audio and video elements such as a podcasts and flash video/presentations. Other types of widgets that you create can also be accommodated.

Requirements

• Your website must relate to the topic of adventure travel in Hawaii
• You must submit your site to Hawaii Nightlife Guide.
• A hyperlink from the root or homepage of your site to the homepage of www.hawaiinightlifeguide.com

Recomended Listing

Recomended listings appear at the top of any search, regional or category page related to your site. Recomended listing qualification is solely determined by users of Hawaii Nightlife Guide. Although the listing type status of your listing plays no direct role in wheter you qualify for Recommended status, sites who link to www.hawaiinightlifeguide.com tend to recieve a higher volume of reviews. Up to 3 recomended listings may appear at any time.

Requirements

• Your site must be listed as a standard, featured, preferred or custom listing on Hawaii Nightlife Guide.
• At least three reviews of your website posted within the last 90 days.
• An average user review rating of at least 4.0 out of 5 for your website during the last 90 days.

Link to us

• If your site is listed on Hawaii Nightlife Guide, placing a link to us on your site removes the "nofollow" attribute from links pointing to your site and upgrades your site to Featured Listing status.
• Placing your link in specific locations such as a featured or partner section, or on your homepage gives the benefits of the featured listing plus additional benefits reserved for preferred and custom listings.
• Linking to Hawaii Nightlife Guide tends to generate a higher volume of reviews and thus increases your chances for qualifying for recommended listing status.
• If you are not located in Hawaii and wish to link to us from a website that is related to adventure travel we may be able to link to your site on one of our other travel resource pages.
• If your site is listed, or you wish to link to us, or request a link exchange, go to our Link Code Page to have link code automatically generated for you.
• If your site is not related in any way to Hawaii, or Adventure Travel, we will not be able to list or link to your site.

Regardless of whether or not a site is relevent to our topics, we will ABSOLUTLEY NOT LIST OR LINK TO, web sites or domains which....

• Have pages banned from Google or Yahoo.
• Are link farms or contain hundreds of links and little else
• Maintain links to or from link farms
• Practice cloaking or use more than one domain to point to the same file content.
• Contain little or no unique or useful information
• Are affiliates of sites already listed or linked from this site
• Make inappropriate use of popup or popunder windows
• Exchange links with multiple sites that have no relation to thier content
• Employ any questionable or "Black Hat" SEO practices ie keyword spamming, or invisible text

If you are employing any of the above we strongly urge you not to. Most if not all of these techinques do not work, or if they do it only works till you are caught. The cost of being caught doing things that are counter productive to search engine users can range from ranking penalties to a permanent oughtright ban from search engines. In most cases sites that are relevent to the topic they are targeting would rank much higher without these tactics, especially in Google, which is the most important of the big three. Search engines are constanly attempting to improve thier ranking systems to provide thier users with results that point to the most useful content on thier search topics. Having said that, the best possible method of "SEO" is to provide as much original and useful content as possible on a cohesive topic or set of topics.