How to Get Listed

How We Select a Site for Listing || How to Request a Listing
Interested in Advertising Here? || Our Policy on Reciprocal Links
If You Want to Link to The Riley Guide || How to Contact Us

Please read the Introduction to the Guide and our Disclaimers.

How We Select a Site for Listing

All services and resources included in this guide must include job listings or other career or employment-related information, services, and/or resources that benefit job seekers.

We prefer services and sites offering free access to the job listings or other resources, but we will consider inclusion of a fee-based resource if we can determine that it is
1. exclusive to the niche it serves and/or
2. valid in charging for the services it provides.
Sites which are merely selling products or advertising their services will not be included. We want you to have something of value for all visitors, whether or not they opt to purchase your services or resources.
We prefer sites that identify who is operating the site and/or service beyond a simple Webmaster@DomainName.com email address or a Contact Form. Anonymous sites that do not provide any information on who is behind their operation will have to be particularly wonderful and/or useful to be considered for a listing.
We are not fond of sites that register their domain names as "Private" so that the name and contact information of the owner are hidden. (Yes, we do check.)
Anonymous sites with no contact info and utilizing Private Domain protection will not be considered at all.

All sites submitted for a listing are evaluated according to these criteria. However, the final decision for inclusion and placement or rejection is Margaret's.

The Addition of Fee-Based Services

As stated before, some sites which charge for their services may be included since the information or service they offer is unique or the field or industry is not otherwise represented online. The final decision about listing a site is mine. However, I do not run background checks on these sites nor do I purchase their products to test them. The decision to do business with any service and the responsibility for making such a decision is yours alone.

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How to Request a Listing

Please check to be sure you are not already listed. I get a lot of mail from sites (or from the marketing firms they've hired) requesting listings when they are already in the guide. It will take you 3 seconds to search this site using my custom Google Search just to verify that indeed, you are not here.
This Google Custom Search will search this site plus select others that we feel will be helpful to you in your search for job and career information.

Custom Search
If you are not listed, send me an email message requesting inclusion. All I need is the URL of your site, a short description of your service, and a valid email address and phone number for a contact with the service, not a contact with your PR firm. If I have questions, I want to talk to the folks who know what is going on, not the folks who need to find someone to answer my questions.
Due to the volume of requests received, I cannot keep you appraised of the review process for your site. I try to acknowledge your request, and I save all requests until I have had a chance to review them.
It may be a long time before any site is evaluated and, if appropriate, included in the guide. There are several reasons for this.
- I get a lot of requests to add sites to the guide.
- A real human visits each site to review it, which takes time.
- I purposely make you wait a while to be sure you won't die shortly after you've started up.
Many sites contact me for inclusion just as they've started up but before they have any real content. Sorry, but I want to see some longevity and original content before adding you. I'm not here to increase your exposure and customer base. I'll list you once I see you have something to offer.

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Interested in Advertising Here?

We have agreed to participate in paid programs offered by a variety of advertisers in order to help cover expenses for the operation of this site. None of these sponsors nor advertisers has any influence over the content of The Riley Guide.

I will consider your ad, subject to the following guidelines.

I must know who the advertiser is, and I must approve of the advertisement before I will discuss placement of the ad.
I only place ads in the margins of the site, never in the main text.
I follow the "terms of use" policy for Google AdSense members in the handling of these links.
Payment is due in advance of display of the ad.

Regarding the Google Ads: I retain the right to block certain sites from my Google advertising if I feel they are not a good service nor resource for my users.

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Policy on Reciprocal Links

The Riley Guide does not request nor
require reciprocal links with other
guides and sites. We do not honor
requests for reciprocal links.

Requests for reciprocal links will be considered for the value they add to the guide, a major part of that value being how they can benefit the job seeker without requiring payment for the services or information offered. (See the How we select sites...) These requests will be judged along with all other resources. Links which are then recommended for inclusion will be placed with the pages of the Riley Guide and featured as resources and not merely as the result of an exchange of links.

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If you Want to Link to The Riley Guide

Permission is granted for anyone who is interested to link to The Riley Guide or any page within the guide at any time, but the location address (URL) must not be hidden through the use of frames nor any other technology nor technical development.
If I hear of The Riley Guide being included in resources and services with whom I do not want to be associated, I will write and request removal.
If I discover you are copying the content of my site to yours without my explicit permission and without appropriate credit, I will contact your host and your advertisers and file complaints in accordance with the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, section 512.

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How to Contact Us

Contact information is listed under Introduction to the Guide.

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