Dos and Don'ts

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Do:

Submit valuable unique content. Our users are interested in finding quality sites which offer what they are looking for. Scrub The Web strives to deliver content different than main stream search engines. Our goal is not quantity. It is about quality.
Create a page with rich content and design that is straightforward, appropriate and relevant for visitors to your site.
Use the Meta Description Tag to let visitors have a complete description of what your Web page is about.
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Use the Meta Content-Type Tag to let Scrubby as well as other robots and browsers know what character encoding you are using. Example:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

Don't:

Avoid Duplicate Content - Scrub The Web tries hard to index and show pages with distinct information. This filtering means, for instance, that if your submitted URL's content results in duplicate content (two or more pages with identical content) already found in our index, your submittted URL will not be listed in the search results. If Scrub The Web perceives the duplicate content was an effort to deceive our users we may also make appropriate adjustments in the indexing and ranking of the sites involved.
Submit more than one URL per any 24 hour period. Doing this will only place the submission at the bottom of the list.
Submit the same URL more than once per week. Doing so may prevent your page from ever being indexed. If Scrubby accepts your submission it can take Scrubby up to 6 weeks before indexing so submitting too often will only confuse Scrubby.
Submit pages that do not have valuable content. Scrubby does not want to index pages that do not provide valuable content to our visitors.
Include metadata that does not accurately describe the content of web document.
Submit pages whose primary intent is to redirect users to another page.
Submit irrelevant cloaked pages. If cloaking methods are used and Scrubby or our visitors report you as a spammer, your entire Website may be removed from our index. Remember a snapshot of your submitted content is always available to our visitors.
Send automated queries to ScrubTheWeb.com in an attempt to monitor your site's ranking. Detected use of these programs will result in your access to ScrubTheWeb being blocked.