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How to Suggest a Site
At HauntedHouse.com, our goal is to become the leading web directory for all things related to haunted houses. The HauntedHouse.com directory is hierarchically organized by subject - from broad to specific and is maintained by a small community editors who evaluate each site individually for inclusion in our directory.

Although HauntedHouse.com maintains search capabilities for the convenience of our visitors, we are actually not a search engine. We care a great deal about the quality and the sites we list within it. As such, we do not accept all sites who submit to us. Please don't take it personally if your site not be accepted. Our goal is to make the directory as useful as possible for our visitors.

To keep the Haunted House.com editorial review staff from pulling out all their hair during the busy season and to assist us in exercising our editorial discretion, we have established submission policies. As such, we may reject, delete, or edit submissions that violate these policies or that we otherwise believe, in our sole discretion, should not be included in the directory. We may also reject, delete, or block other sites that we believe to be associated with a user who has violated these policies.

IIf you represent a Haunted Destination/Place, Haunted Attraction, Home/Yard Haunter or a special event related to haunted houses, it's important you select the most appropriate category.

If you are unsure as to which category, please select one which best describes your situation. Our HauntedHouse.com editorial staff may contact you for additional information (if needed).

Submission Policies

• Do not submit MySpace Pages, Facebook pages, Twitter or any other Community website page to HauntedHouse.com. They will not be accepted as legitimate links.

• Do not submit URLs that contain only the same or similar content as other sites you may have listed in the directory. Sites with overlapping and repetitive content are not helpful to users of the directory. Multiple submissions of the same or related sites may result in the exclusion and/or deletion of those and all affiliated sites.

• HauntedHouse.com has a strict policy against the inclusion of sites with any illegal content. Examples of such illegal material include child pornography; libel; material that infringes any intellectual property right; and material that specifically advocates, solicits or abets illegal activity (such as fraud or violence).

• We recommend you not submit sites "under construction." Wait until your site has minimal information before submitting it. Sites that are incomplete, contain "Under Construction" notices, or contain broken graphics or links aren't good candidates for the directory.

• At the current time, HauntedHouse.com only allows web site to be listed in no more than 2 different categories. You will need to identify the two best categories for your site. HauntedHouse.com has a wide array of subjects to choose from. You should submit a site to the two most relevant categories. Sites submitted to inappropriate or unrelated categories may be rejected or removed. The exception is in the Marketplace area where a company may be listed in up to 3 different categories.

After Your Site is Submitted
A HauntedHouse.com editor will review your submission to determine whether to include it in the directory. Depending on factors such as the volume of submissions to the particular category, it may take up to a week before your submission is reviewed. Please only submit a URL once. Again, multiple submissions of the same or related sites may result in the exclusion and/or deletion of those and all affiliated sites.

Banner Placement
For your listing to be included as a free listing YOU MUST HAVE THE HAUNTEDHOUSE.COM BANNER POSTED ON YOUR SITE AND LINKED TO HAUNTEDHOUSE.COM! If you do not have our banner on your site on your links page or elsewhere where the banner can be easily found, we will not approve your listing.

Banner placement is checked throughout the directory several times a year. If we do not find our banner on your site you risk losing your free listing. Click here to download our banner


Updating Your Site or Event
If a site has been accepted for inclusion in the directory but you are dissatisfied with how the site is described or titled, you may go to the category where it is listed, and fill out the "Update Site" form. If you are dissatisfied with the category in which your site is listed, you may send an e-mail to an editor for the category explaining your disagreement. Be polite and civil -- threatening or abusive behavior will not be tolerated.


Editorial Discretion
Please recognize that making HauntedHouse.com a useful resource requires us to exercise broad editorial discretion in determining the content and structure of the directory. That discretion extends (but is not limited) to what sites to include, where in the directory sites are placed, whether and when to include more than one link to a site, when deep linking is appropriate, and the content of the title and description of the site. In addition, a site's placement in the directory is subject to change or deletion at any time at our sole discretion. You should not rely on any aspect of a site's inclusion in the directory. Please understand that an editor's exercise of discretion may not always treat all submissions equally. You may not always agree with our choices, but we hope you recognize that we do our best to make fair and reasonable decisions.

HauntedHouse.com team welcomes comments and feedback about the directory generally. Please let us know what you think, and how we can improve the service.