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Please read the following before you bother reading the rest of this form.

This is NOT an automated form. Meaning, a failure to read and follow the instructions below will NOT result in your site being added anyway, but your request being ignored. After you submit the form your request will be reviewed by staff, and if we feel your site is appropriate based on the guidelines below, we will email you back.

(We do apologize if the preceding sounded rude, and if you do have a legitimate website, we ARE glad you're here. It's just that this form has recently resulted in a lot of "spam" or totally inappropriate submissions, and we're trying to "head that off at the pass," if you will.)

Thank you!

Roomie Match is currently looking for meaningful linkage partners, for mutual traffic building, awareness generating, and site enhancement. We'd like to develop a network of sites to attract and share web traffic within and beyond what search engines AND to enhance placement on the search engines. We would like you to fill out this form and have us consider you as a linkage partner IF:

1) Your site could conceivably interest our typical user. Our TYPICAL user tends to be (other than someone interested in moving and/or looking for a roommate, of course):

-on the younger side of 40
-college-educated
-technologically savvy
-an urban dweller
-single and dating

2) Your website has major search engine placement, does advertising and/or already has high traffic. We do, we think you should too.

If you think your website qualifies, here are some more restrictions:

3) NO PORNO. We make no judgments regarding "personal" time, but we will not endorse anything X-rated here. That includes ads on the site as well as the site's own content.

4) NO AFFILIATE NONSENSE. We will not list sites that offer products/services marketed through an affiliate UNLESS there is significant unique content on the site. You know who you are. Please don't bother submitting.

5) Along the lines of #4, please don't bother submitting if your site immediately confronts the surfer with an annoying bevy of popup ads, popunder ads and/or advertisements for 75 other sites on the index page. If you don't have enough confidence in the content and/or service you provide that someone would want to just stay with that for a couple of minutes, we probably won't either.

6) WE REQUIRE A LINK EXCHANGE. This whole thing is about mutual publicity. We require a link exchange to list your site. Meaning, if your site is appropriate we'll be more than happy to list it on our "resources" page (which is accessible from a clear menu directly off of our index page), but only if you agree to list ours as well. The page on which you list us must be:

-accessible from your true index page. By index page we mean your TRUE index page, not one created just for this. (This really shouldn't require explaining, but we've had some 'spammy' submissions along these lines so we're clarifying now.) For instance, the index page for this site is:

http://www.roomiematch.com

NOT some duplicate of the page with extra links and coding added to look like our index page, but actually just be a duplicate doorway/dummy (i.e. http://www.roomiematch.com?ref=61985462) to fool others into thinking we're linking to them from our main page. We won't attempt to deceive you with bull**** nonsense, please return the favor.

-accessible from your true index page within no more than 3 clicks from that page. Meaning, no pages buried too deeply within the site for search engines to find them, and no "island" pages that aren't accessible at all from your true index page.

-you need to be willing to leave the link up indefinitely - or for an agreed upon time. We will be checking. Please don't agree to place a link to us on your site then remove it after some brief period, we will be checking.

The link would need to be to our index page:
http://www.roomiematch.com
and our preferred description is as follows:
Find a roommate - not just any roommate or the roommate from hell but the best possible one for you. Free Roommate Search/Cheap Roommate Search options - detailed roommate matching profiles with lifestyle and personality factors. US and Canada.

Here's all the code you'd need to do that prefab for you, you can just cut-and-paste this into your source code:

<p><a href="http://www.roomiematch.com" title="Real roommate matching predicting compatibility - all the right questions to ask when looking for a roommate.">Roomie Match Roommates</a> - Find a roommate - not just any roommate or the roommate from hell but the best possible one for you. Free Roommate Search/Cheap Roommate Search options - detailed roommate matching profiles with lifestyle and personality factors. US and Canada.</p>

7) The preceding guidelines are an excellent start in determining if your site will be considered appropriate, but we still reserve the right to make our own decisions based on our own taste about what is appropriate.

If any of the preceding is unacceptable to you and/or if you aren't really willing to go along with our guidelines, please don't bother filling out the rest of the form. But if you are, we look forward to hearing from you!

Title of your site:

Email address where we can send you mail re: link exchange:

URL of your site:

URL on YOUR site where you will be listing our index page according to the guidelines above:

Your preferred site description (please keep this brief and hyperbole-free):

Anything else you think we'd like to know?