At u-Hits, we reserve the right to reject listing submitted for review for any reason. However, we do screen all submissions and while we may edit listings with minor errors, we will reject those that clearly do not adhere to our published guidelines. This page serves as an index for, although definitely not all, the most common reasons for rejection. When we reject your site, you will have received an email indicating the reason why your submission was not approved. Contained within that email is a rejection code which if cross-referenced here, will give you details as to why we felt your site could not be included within our index. Using this page should help you prevent your listings from being rejected in the future.

Please note, we do not enter into any discussion as to why we reject free submissions for ANY reason.

Your site will be rejected should it found to contain, use, promote, sell, distribute or encourage the use of counterfeit replica goods, unlicensed software, warez, torrent or copyright theft. We will never knowingly accept these sites under any circumstances and should your description contain the use of certain words associated with copyright infringemnet, then it will be automatically removed or rejected without ever being seen.

If you are a licenced trader with authorisation to sell replicas, we will need evidence of the fact, such as a licence agreement or similar.

If your submission is a duplicate, or mirror of a site already contained within our index or pending approval, it will not be accepted. This includes sites that may look different, but have exactly the same content, or sites with different URL, that point to identical looking websites. Submitting multiple mirrored websites may result in ALL of your listings being rejected.

If you have chosen a reciprocal listing, your site will be rejected or removed if it is found that the site you submitted does not contain a valid link back to us. In order to be valid, your link to us must be contained on a page that is navigable from the index of your site and 'followable (i.e rel='nofollow' must not be set).

Any reciprocal links found to be located on hidden pages, or on pages with more that 100 other links will usually be rejected.

If you submit a free listing, it will be rejected if the URL supplied does not point to the top level of your domain. For free listings, we will only accept domains that are generic (gTLD) or country-code (ccTLD) Top Level Domains in the following formats:.

Examples:
• domain.com
• domain.co.uk
• www.domain.com
• www.domain.co.cc

Your submission will be rejected if it contains too many errors to reasonably correct. This can include one or more of the reasons listed on this page.

Generally for free submissions, we will correct minor errors, such as erroneous titles, or incorret category submissions, but if you listing was found to contain significant errors it will not be accepted.

Paid submissions will only be rejected for this reason under extreme circumstances and only if we cannot understand the message you are trying to communicate. If your paid submission is rejected, then a full refund will be given.

For free submissions, your submission will be rejected if it found to contain, sell or promote the following content:

• Loans / Credit-cards / Mortgage / Debt Management
• Pharmacutical / Pills / Medicines / Suppliments

Information only sites related to these subjects are generally acceptable as free listings, provided the content is of reasonable quality and do not serve just as a portal or gateway to another site selling such products.

We take pride in checking out the licence status of sites selling or promoting such items and as such, we will only accept these types of listings as paid submissions due to the time taken to research them.

Your listing will be rejected if you have chosen a paid submission and we have received no payment for that listing. Since no payment has been received, or no payment is pending, your submission will have been completely removed from the system.

We are aware that payment issues can sometimes occur outside yours or our control, so please contact us if you experience problems with your chosen payment processor. We can usually see if you have attempted to make a payment and in such circumstances, we will resend and invoice to you. We will wait a few days, but if we do not receive contact or payment, we recerve the right to either downgrade your listing to a basic free listing, or as is more usual, remove it completely.

Your listing will be rejected if your destination site is found to contain content that is considered of an unacceptable quality. While we appreciate any effort you may have made to construct your site, we do not accept free submissions to sites that are banner or link farms, or do not have any original content or design aspects. This will also include pages that contain only affiliate advertising or links, or sites specifically made to benefit from third party advertising.

In addition, we may reject your listing if your destination site contains an unacceptable amount of errors.

A common-sense approach is required when submitting a description. Accurate, relevent and easy-to-read descriptions encourage users to visit your site. As such, your site may have been rejected for any of the following reasons:

• TOO SHORT / INACCURATE / NOT RELEVENT:
  Your description must be of reasonable length. Descriptions effectively provide content and will encourage search engine spiders to index the page that your listing is on, therefore making your listing viewable to a wider audience. We do allow you a generous limit for your description, so please try and make use of it. An accurate and relevent description will assist users searching u-Hits in finding your site. It will also allow proper indexing of your submission when the major search engines crawl u-Hits. Short descriptions are often ignored or overlooked
• PROFANITIES / OBCENITIES:
  Do not included profanities, swear-words, insulting or degrading comments in your description.
• OUT OF DATE PRICES:
  While we do accept prices in our descriptions, any that are found to be falsely stated, or out of date will result in your submission being rejected. This also serves as a warning that if you do include accurate prices and we accept your submission, it may later be removed if those prices later become defunct.
• GRAMMAR / SPELLING:
  While we may edit minor errors and mistakes, we will always reject submissions that have descriptions that contain many grammar or spelling errors.
• FALSE CLAIMS / SLOGANS:
  Your description must describe the content and/or function of your site accurately in a grammatical context. If your description contains inflated claims or slogans, your submission will be rejected.
• LISTS OF WORDS/ KEYWORD STUFFING:
  Your site description must not contain long lists of keywords or phrases.
• REPEATED WORDS / PHRASES:
  In terms of SEO and SERPS, repeating the same keyword or phrase does nothing for either our site or your listing. Generally, repeating the same keyword more than three or four times in a description may get your submission rejected.
• CAPITALISATION:
  Only words at the beginning of a sentance, or proper nouns may be capitalised. Descriptions that contain sentences will all capital letters, or with every first letter capitalised will not be accepted.
CONTACT DETAILS:
No contact details, including email address, telephone numbers, fax numbers or physical address should be included in your description. At the descretion of u-Hits, this can result in either those details being stripped completely, or your submission being rejected. Contact details are available to paid submissions only.

Paid submissions will only be rejected for these reason under extreme circumstances and only if we cannot understand the message you are trying to communicate. We will attempt to edit your submission to reflect the message you are trying to convey, but if we find this impossible, we may contact you for clarification, or reject your submission with a full refund.

For free submissions, if the URL you submitted is found to be cloaked, masked or redirects to another URL, your free submission will be rejected. This includes affilate links, as well as URL's provided by redirection or URL shortening services.

We do accept some redirected and cloaked URL's for paid submissions. However, acceptance of these determined on an individual basis and if it is found that your supplied description does not reflect the content of the page that is eventually displayed, it will not be accepted. Further, if you have paid for a submission and later changed the destination site to one that does not reflect your supplied description, we reserve the right ro remove your listing without notice and without any refunds.

This is done to protect our user base from sites that contain illegal or unsuitable content. We have had several submissions in the past that later changed the destination page to content that could be considered unsavoury. As u-Hits is for a general audience, this practice is not tolerated under any circumstances.

Your submission will not be approved if your destination website is found to contain viruses, trojans, forced downloaders and other such threats. All submitted websites are regularly screened for such content and to protect our user base, they will either be rejected on submission, or suspended/removed from our listings until these threats have been dealt with. This includes paid submissions which will temporarly disabled until you contact us to advise that the threats have been removed.

We do appreciate that sometimes sites can be affected by malicious code which you may not be aware about, but this is a policy we have to pursue in order to protect our users and to prevent viruses and threats spreading further.

Your submission may also be rejected if it is SUSPECTED to be associated with fraud, including scams or associated illegal activities, as well as software amd procedures aimed at helping bypass security systems or hack to passwords.

Me make no personal judgement about such listings and only reject them on the basis of an overly large amount of publically available user complaints about the business in question or practices that WE deem to be unethical.

Unfortunately this is our 2nd most common cause for rejection. It is our policy only to accept human submissions; that is, submissions that are physically typed out or copied into our submission forms. Submissions identified as not being made by a human will be rejected. We have several procedures in place to identify auto-submits, including, but are not limited to, using forms that are clearly marked as 'do not use', as well as analysis of multiple submissions in a time that would be impossible for a human to achieve. This information is shared across our network and as such, multiple instances will result in your email, IP and domain being banned from our entire network of sites.

Ironically, most auto-submits are also rejected automatically by our own robot process without a human ever seeing them.

Your site will be rejected if it is found that your site is not available on the internet for more than a reasonable period of time. We do appreciate that downtime can occur outside your control, so we will generally wait for a few days before acting, but sites that are found to be constantly unavailable will be removed from our index.

In the case of paid submissions, we will temporarly disable your site from our listings, but will endeavour to make contact with the listed owner to advise them of the fact. As soon as you contact us again to say that your site is available, your listing will be reactivated. If we cannot contact you, or you do not reply, we reserve the right to permanently remove your listing from our index.

Under no circumstances will we accept sites that contain, promote, sell, sponsor or encourage the following activites:

• Adult / Pornography / Nudity / Escort Services / Indecent Activity
• Hate / Crime / Violence
• Conterfeit / Replica goods
• Anti-religions / Anti-semetic
• Pyramid / Ponzi schemes
• Narcotics / Drug Parapharnalia
• Copyright Infringement / Warez / Torrent
• Essay, Dissertation, Thesis, and Coursework writing services
• Gambling / Betting / Casino / Paid Gaming
• Hunting (except Fishing) / Poaching Shooting / Trapping
• Guns / Knives / Weapons

If you make a paid submission with the afore-mentioned content, your listing will be rejected with a refund being made only at our discretion.While we would like to accept some of the subject matter listed above, we are unable to accept submissions of this type due to acceptable-use policies of some of our advertisers and payment providers.

Our most common reason for rejection. All free submissions require confirmation of the email address you submitted as the owner of the listing. As soon as you submit your listing, an email containing a confirmation link that must be clicked, is sent to the address your provided in the submission form. Failure to act on this email, or a reminder sent out two weeks later, within one month of your submission will result in your submission being treated as spam and automatically removed.

When you submit to u-hits, please ensure that you do not filter emails from our domain to your junk or spam folders.

While it is not required to confirm paid submissions, it can expediate the review process if you do.