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Last Updated: April, 8th, 2007

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Q : How does GoldTop100 work?

Q: Why should I join the Gold Top 100?

Q: My site is a high traffic site, why is it still worth it to participate in the GoldTop100?

Q: My site is very small, Can I join?

Q: I submitted my site, but it isn't showing up on the list. Why?

Q: I want a higher rank, can I place a return link in my mailing list?

Q: What are reranks and resets?

Q: You have more sites in your database than you have places on your list. Will this affect my chances of being listed?

Q: What types of sites can be listed on the Gold Top 100 ?

Q: What size banner can I put on your site?

Q: Are there any other rules I should be aware of?

Q: How does GoldTop100 work?

A: When you join, you will be given a small piece of HTML code to cut and paste into your sites home page or sub pages. This code will display a normal text link to GoldTop100.com (example of how return link will look on your site: GoldTop100). Each time a visitor to your site clicks on this link, it will be tracked and rank you according to how popular your site is. The more clicks you receive, the higher you will be ranked on the list.

It is up to you to decide on how many pages of your site you wish to place the tracking return text link. Obviously, the more visible and the more frequent the text link appears, the higher your respective ranking will be.

The example html linking code that you would place within the link on your site is as follows:

http://www.goldtop100.com/cgi-bin/gold/in.cgi?id=youruserID

Q: Why should I join?

A: More Visibility, Visitors and Brand Building Power! On average, your site should receive more visitors (hits out) than it sends in. This occurs for two main reasons:

· Because hits in open in the same window, but hits out open in a new window. So more than one member site can be visited at a time.

· Some users set GoldTop100 dot com as their home page or bookmark and revisit it.

Google currently indexes and searches over 8 Billion web pages. In the interest of saving valuable time, the potential gold buyer or investor will seek out GoldTop100. Cluster sites which aggregate websites around an interest or topic are becoming more and more important as the internet grows larger.

1. Similar to the way people place a high perceived value on the USA TODAY's 'Top 50 colleges' list, people will also find great utility in the GoldTop100. The 'Internet Gold Industry' is highly fragmented and GoldTop100 helps to consolidate it and bring clarity to first time as well as seasoned traders.

2. GoldTop100 dot com is also actively managed and promoted externally for increased visibility. This includes potential reviews in offline/online print publications who often do 'site reviews' and may find GoldTop100 as very useful to their member base. In addition, business alliances and advertising deals are made with other high traffic targeted sites in order to make GoldTop100 the premier Top 100 gold site.

3. Prestige, Branding, Visibility. Being listed on the GoldTop100 shows you belong to the best of the 'Internet Gold Industry'.

4. Diversification of your traffic base. The sites that list under the umbrella of the Top100 Family represent a broad diversified traffic base. This means new potential customers for you.

5. Improved search engine rankings. By having your site linked to the Gold Top 100 you will be interlinked to the best and most popular Gold websites on the internet. This is important for improved search engine rankings.

6. Freedom and Flexibility! You can change your description text listing on the GoldTop100 at any time you like to suit changing needs, changing market messages. You are in control.

7. New potential traders need GoldTop100 to quickly survey the 'whos who' of Gold. Where will these newcomers go to find out about Gold? Something easy to understand Right? The Gold Top 100!

8. RSS FEED. Underlying the GoldTop100 is a very search engine friendly Gold Blog website which will provide updated gold editorials, content and discussions. The articles will be 'pressed' on Gold Top 100 giving visitors a reason to come back. In addition, the top 50 Gold Sites will be listed on the front page of the Gold Blog Editorial website, plus the top 20 Gold sites will be listed on EACH Editorial page. What this means is that if your site is within the top 20, it can potentially be listed on THOUSANDS of very search engine friendly editorial pages giving you enormous FREE exposure! In Addition, a randomly selected site from the Gold Top 100 is displayed on the Gold Blog editorial pages as well, giving all listed GoldTop100 sites solid exposure on the thousands of high quality editorial pages of the Gold Trading Blog.

9. It's FREE to join and FREE to stay as a member!

Q: My site is a high traffic site, why should I bother participating in the GoldTop100?

A. Sites that already have substantial traffic can still benefit from GoldTop100. First, you will receive proportional traffic back to your site, to the amount you send in. You will be able to diversify your traffic base (new customers) from the ones you already have. The GoldTop100 lists the 'whos who' of the 'Internet Gold Sector'. Not being included in this list may leave some to wonder why. When the mainstream investor/consumer wants to find out about gold, they will find what they need at the GoldTop100. And finally, its free, no risk. Lastly see point number 8 (RSS FEED) above. This one point alone is reason enough for you to participate.

Even if you are currently running a paid advertising campaign on other websites, participating in the GoldTop100 is a way to further leverage that paid-for traffic.

Q: My site is very small. Can I join?

A: Yes, of course. We hope you get a lot of extra traffic to help you grow. In addition, goldtop100 dot com randomly chooses sites from all those listed regardless of rank and features them on the front page above 1st place on each page (On 8 Pages) (at the very top) providing outstanding visibility and FREE exposure.

Q: I submitted my site, but it isn't showing up on the list. Why?

A: Your site will not appear until you have placed the HTML code on your site, clicked once to activate your account and the list has been reranked.

Q: I want a higher rank. Can I place a return link in my mailing list?

A: Yes.

Q: What are reranks and resets?

A: Every 30 minutes, the list is reranked. This means that the votes accumulated in the previous 30 minutes are used to reorder the list. In resets, which occur monthly, the votes and visitors counters are set back to zero, so that the ranking can start afresh.

Q: You have more sites in your database than you have places on your list. Will this adversly affect my chances of being listed?

A: It should not. We let dormant accounts remain on the list because we understand that some such member sites will begin to receive traffic at a later date, and we expand our list periodically to attempt to ensure that all sites that are sending even one hit weekly are displayed.

Q: What types of sites can be listed on the Gold Top 100 ?

Gold Websites
Gold message boards
Gold Editorial Sites
Gold Advice sites
Gold Subscription Sites
Gold NEWS Sites
Other sites that have a majority percentage of their content dealing with gold and/or gold trading.

Q: What size banner can I put on your site?

Your button, displayed on GoldTop100.com, must be 88 ×31 pixels (width by height) and less than 30 KB. If your button link is broken or if you cannot create a button at this time the default button will be used.

Sample Button Size:

NOTE: Do not underestimate the branding power of your button and the perception it creates to visitors about your site. If you need help creating a 88X31 banner I can create one for you for free within 24 hours.

Q: Are there any other rules I should be aware of ?

1. The email address associated with your account must remain active.

2. The HTML linking code provided must be added to member sites with a text link.

3. Attempts to create multiple accounts for the same site can be trapped by our software. Any attempt to circumvent such systems will result in the deletion of duplicate accounts.

4. Our software logs several kinds of cheating attempts. We can guarantee that we can detect cheating accurately, and have a zero tolerance policy. Any site that is found attempting to use artificial means to generate hits in will be removed and may be banned from future use of our service.

5. Spam of all kinds is strictly prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to, unsolicited bulk email, newsgroup postings, IRC and ICQ.

6. By submitting your site, you agree that we reserve the right to remove any member site, for any reason, and although we normally will explain our actions, we are under no obligation to do so.

7. We reserve the right to amend these rules, but will always inform member sites of any rule changes, clearly highlighting the precise nature of the changes.

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