Frequently asked questions
Thetravelcenter.net search service helps you find travel and travel related web sites on the internet. Here’s how it works. To find what you are looking for, try typing in keywords, phrases, or questions in the search box. You will be given a list of all the Web pages in our index that relates to the topic that you typed in the Search box. The list returned will list sites by relevance, the most relevant content will appear higher in the results. You can link words together into phrases if you want specific words to appear together in your result pages.
Site Submission
To submit a site and have it accepted, you will need to ensure the site topic relates to the travel industry. All sites are added on review. The review can take from 24 hours to 2 weeks to be included in the travel center index.
- Why are the URL’s I submit, not appearing?
- Answer : You have probably submitted too often and are being blocked.
- How can I ensure a good ranking for my Web site?
- Answer : Ensure your site has good keywords and sufficient content on the page.
- Can you update my URL with the correct title or keywords?
- Answer : No, you will need to re-submit
- How can I avoid having my site blocked?
- Answer : Do not attempt to submit, contrary to our submission terms.
- Why has my URL disappeared from the index?
- Answers : We are continuously updating, please re-submit if your URL does not show up.
- Can you tell me how to remove my URL from the index?
- Answer : You can remove a URL from our index by blocking our spider in the robots.txt file. If the URL is no longer pointing to a valid page, or if indexing is denied by robots.txt, it will be removed from our index in the next update.
- How can I ensure a good ranking for my Web site?
- Answer : The best way to improve the ranking of your web site is to be more specific about the content and use meta tags within your HTML document. It’s not a good idea to use duplicate words or include keywords that do not relate to the content of your page..
- How can I avoid having my site blocked?
- Answer : Avoid using duplicate words multiple times, including keywords excessively, or using keywords that do not relate to the content of your document.
- Why has my URL disappeared from the index?
- Answer : When we rebuild an index, pages may not be indexed. We apologize for any inconvenience. You would need to resubmit your site, go to our Add Pages and re-submit.
- Do you follow the robots.txt standard?
- Answer : Yes we do
- How can I block your spider?
- Answer : you can block the user agent Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: Thetravelcenter.net search)
