• The site must clearly define its purpose, products, and/or services
• Your website cannot be under construction and must be fully functional. All links on the site must be properly working.
• Your website must be in the English language or offer English language translation.
• Your site must be active 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.
• Your site must load quickly.
• The submitted URL cannot redirect to another URL.
• Your website cannot be an affiliate site or a site that mirrors or duplicates another site.
• Your website cannot be a domain name that is parked, or a site developed for the sole purpose of displaying contextual ads, banner ads, or other advertisements.
• Your website cannot utilize a free hosting service that provides hosting at no cost in exchange for the right to show 3rd party advertisements on your site.
• You acknowledge that your company is one of the following: i) A manufacturer, wholesaler or retailer that sells a product, service, articles or information. ii) a fee based professional service to businesses or consumers. iii) a directory that provides listings of other companies or businesses. iv) a search engine offering search results based upon a specific user query. vi) an Internet site offering editorial content, white papers or research within a specific area of expertise.
• Sites containing only articles, developed for the primary purpose of surrounding that content with advertisements of products or services offered by others will not be approved.
• Your website cannot be a blog, or a site that primarily offers written content such as opinions, views or essays.
• Your website should contain sufficient pages and content. We typically like to see sites that provide an "about us", "contact us", "our products or services", etc.
• The viewer must land on the home page of the submitted URL. In effect, the viewer must walk through the front door by landing on the home page of your domain name as it was registered. No sub-domains are accepted.
• b2bYellowpages in its sole discretion will not list any websites that offer the following content or links, either directly or indirectly, to any of the following material: pornographic or adult, gambling or casino sites, violent, racially oriented, hate, ethnical, offensive or inappropriate, get rich schemes, multi level marketing (MLM), file sharing or peer to peer, infringe upon someone's property or rights as well as the offering of products, services or information that may be deemed illegal under any applicable law, statute, ordinance or regulation.

• If you wish to appear in our local results, your address and phone number must be also be posted on your website.
• Descriptions should describe your company products and services without self-promotion. They cannot state that we are "the best", "the largest", "the cheapest", etc.
• Keywords submitted must be specific to your business. For example a corporate lawyer can submit the keyword "business law", but not just the keyword "business". Everything on our site is related to a business!

Please note: While our criteria has been formulated and based upon reviewing tens of thousands of websites, the preceding is only a summary of the editorial criteria used by b2bYellowpages.com when selecting web sites for inclusion in its directory. The criteria we state and utilize in our approval process are not to be considered all-inclusive. The criteria stated only serves to provide a summary of the general criteria utilized. b2bYellowpages.com in its sole discretion reserves the right to include or exclude listing any site, keywords or descriptions for reasons that may not be stated and such determinations will be final and binding.