What are "votes" and "referrals"?
A "vote" is recorded when someone arrives at Top Wedding Sites by clicking a link to us that you've placed on your site.
A "referral" is when someone clicks on a listing in our directory, under popular wedding sites headings, and the visitor is sent to that wedding site.
In short, "votes" are visitors sent to Team Wedding from our wedding site owners/members, and "referrals" are visitors Team Wedding sends to our wedding vendors/sites.
What is the benefit of the voting?
The voting program has three main benefits:
It allows wedding site owners/webmasters the opportunity to promote their wedding site to brides, grooms, etc, for free on our popular sites listing pages.
Participation in the voting entitles wedding businesses to display our recognizable and respected logo on their wedding site, offering instant respectability among your new visitors.
It allows Team Wedding's visitors the ability to discover new sites they might not otherwise come across in a typical search.
How does the voting work?
When a wedding business/website places a link to Team Wedding on it's site, each time a new person clicks on it, that website/business listing is credited with a vote. The more votes, the higher the listing will rank in it's category, and the more return traffic we're likely to send. A single visitor can vote only once. All subsequent clicks on that banner/link, from that user, will not be scored.
How do I list my wedding site?
To become a Team Wedding/Top Wedding Sites member, which gives you the opportunity to create your free listing and also to purchase advertising, click here.
How are votes scored?
Votes are scored when a visitor clicks on a topweddingsites.com link on one of our wedding member's websites. Each visitor can score only one vote. Wedding site owner: please do not click on your own link. Owner clicks and multiple clicks from the same person are logged, and may result in your account being penalized or removed.
You may create a link to www.topweddingsites.com yourself, or use our Custom Banner Creator.
How often are the vote statistics reset?
The current vote counts are reset weekly for the nation-wide listings and monthly for the state-wide listings. This is to give newly added sites a fair chance to rise to the top.
The listings are sorted according to the number of votes since the last weekly or monthly reset. (Ties are broken by the number of lifetime votes.) So the more clicks sent to Team Wedding, the higher a site will rank, and the more traffic we'll send.
Are there any rules for the voting?
To make the voting fair, and the results useful, we have established rules that all participants in the voting must agree to and follow. The rules can be viewed here.
How do you prevent cheating?
While we do not know of any Internet voting system that can detect and prevent 100% of those intent on cheating, we have established several measures to minimize it. Furthermore, the more security measures that are put in place, the less convenient it is for members to cheat. We do our best to balance security and convenience within our current system. We use a combination of technologies to enforce our rules, including restricting individuals and computers from voting more than once for any one site.
Those intent on trying to cheat will find it both inconvenient and time consuming. Furthermore, it is easily and automatically spotted, reported & corrected by us and the person and/or site found responsible may be blocked from future voting or have their site deleted without notice.
I think a site is cheating. What can I do?
Send an email to the administrator of the site including all information about why you feel a site is cheating. We take cheating attempts seriously. If we determine that an individual or computer has sent in multiple votes for any one site within a 24 hour time period, those votes will be deleted and the account may be suspended or removed at the discretion of the administrator.
Why didn't my vote count?
Our voting system allows one vote per visitor. Reasons why your vote would not be counted:
- You or someone else who has access to the computer you are voting from has already voted from that computer.
- You or someone else who has access to the IP address you are voting from has already voted from that IP address.
- You have cookies turned off in your browser options.
- You have not placed the voting link on the domain we are linking to. Right-click on the page where your voting link resides on your site and be sure that is the same domain you have listed in your account as the website address. For example, the following would not score votes since the page with the voting link (reciprocal link URL) is not on the same domain as the website address:
- Website Address: http://www.abcdiscjockey.com
- Reciprocal link URL: http://geocities.abcdiscjockey.com
This: www.abcdiscjockeys.com and www.abcdiscjockeys.com/links.html are both using the same domain.
Can I change my account details?
Yes, webmasters/website owners can log into their account to update most parts of the account including site title, description, category, URL, or email address. You may not change user name. All edits are reviewed by the administrator. Click Member Login to edit your listing.
Can I list my site in more than one category/state/region?
According to the rules each member agrees to upon creating a listing, only one free listing is allowed. If you would like to list in more than one area please login to upgrade your listing, see rates and option.
What if I forgot my password or username?
You can automatically retrieve your username or password here. For security purposes, the username or password will be sent to the email address on record for your account.
Who can join, and what does it cost?
Only commercial wedding related sites may be added (all others will be removed). We reserve the right to reject any site we deem inappropriate. Review our Terms of Service and our Site Rules for more information.
Why isn't my site appearing?
Assuming it was not deleted for a violation of one of our rules, there are only three reasons why a recently added site has not yet appeared on one of our rankings pages.
- You have not added a link to TopWeddingSites.com on your site, so your listing is being ranked below all the sites with votes, at the bottom of the list.
- None of your visitors have cast a vote for your site by clicking your link yet, so it still ranks very low.
- The vote didn't count because it came from you (the site owner) or from someone who has clicked on your link in the past. Only one vote is recorded from each IP address.
If you know that an hour has passed since a vote has been sent, and you still do not see your site, contact us and we will look into it for you.
