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Guidelines

Due to the proliferation of spam blogs (splogs) and malicious practices in the Blogosphere, we use many techniques to identify what is legitimate and what is suspicious. We include or exclude blogs based on the evaluation of the criteria listed here and other systematic factors. We do not disclose all of these factors to prevent sploggers and others from gaming the system. We’ve compiled the Blog Quality Guidelines to help you understand what criteria we use for indexing blogs. Use of the Holistic Wisdom Blog is subject to these guidelines and our Terms of Service.

By following these common sense practices, legitimate blogs typically provide sufficient criteria for us to ensure their successful indexing. Failure to follow our guidelines will cause you to be removed from our blog.

Do

• Publish feeds that are discoverable by using feed discovery
• Publish full content (not summaries or excerpts) in an Atom 1.0 feed Sign in and ping
• Holistic Wisdom directly with your claimed blog URL
• Write posts with original content.
• One of the biggest differences between blogs and websites is that blogging is about being part of the online conversation. We’d like to hear your opinions and comments in your blog posts. Write often. The more you write, the more you are a part of the conversation.
• Cite your sources. Provide attribution by quoting and linking to the source.

Do Not

• Do not republish content from other sites without adding your original commentary or reaction.
• Do not publish with excessive Commercial Intent. We understand that many blog to make money. However, sites that include a high proportion of content and links solely intended to promote ad networks, affiliate system bounties, or other transactions are not considered blogs.
• Do not tag excessively. Make sure the tags you use to describe your posts really do describe your posts. If we see high occurrences of unrelated, variants and synonyms, or overuse of tags in your posts, we may conclude that your site is trying to game the system.
• Do not promote or participate in viral linking schemes.
• Do not ask us to index objectionable, obscene, offensive content or content that promotes or displays pornography.
• Do not publish posts with nonsense text intended to boost keyword matches in search engines.
• Do not be overly repetitive. If we find that your posts all contain the same content and/or links, your site may be considered gaming the system or link spam.
• Do not be misleading with inappropriate redirects.
• Do not use links that take the reader to completely different content than what is expected.
• Do not promote malware or objectionable content.
• Do not promote downloads to view objectionable content, promote malware or spyware of any form.
• Do not link to our competitors and use our site to advertise for them.