FAQ

The voting program has three main benefits:
It allows webmasters the opportunity to promote their site in front of our visitors for free on our popular sites listing pages.
Participation in the voting entitles you to display our recognizable and respected logo on your site. This gives your site instant respectability among your new visitors.
It allows our visitors the ability to discover new sites that they might not otherwise come across in a typical search.

When you place a link to Top Wedding Sites on your site, each time a new person clicks on it, your listing is credited with a vote. The more votes you get, the higher your listing will rank on our site, and the more return traffic you're likely to get. A single visitor can vote only once. All subsequent clicks on that banner, from that user, will not be scored.

To become a Top Wedding Sites member, which gives you the opportunity to create your free listing and also to purchase advertising, click here.

Votes are scored when people click on a topweddingsites.com link which you have placed somewhere on your site. The domain of the page where you place the link must match your Site URL, and each visitor can only give you one vote. 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.

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 you send our way, the higher your site will rank, and the more traffic you'll get in return.

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.

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.

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.

Our voting system allows one vote per visitor. Reasons why your vote would not be counted:

1. You or someone else who has access to the computer you are voting from has already voted from that computer.
2. You or someone else who has access to the IP address you are voting from has already voted from that IP address.
3. You have cookies turned off in your browser options.
4. 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
   So, you would need to make sure you are placing our link on any page on your domain http://www.abcdiscjockey.com and not on the geocities, or some other domain or in an email or forum.
   
   This: www.abcdiscjockeys.com and www.abcdiscjockeys.com/links.html are both using the same domain.

Yes, you can log into your account to update most parts of your account including site title, description, category, URL, or email address. You may not change your user name. All edits are reviewed by the adminstrator. Click Member Login to edit your listing.

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.

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.

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.

1. You have not added a link to Top Wedding Sites on your site, so your listing is being ranked below all the sites with votes, at the bottom of the list.
2. None of your visitors have cast a vote for your site by clicking your link yet, so it still ranks very low.
3. 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.