Frequently Asked Questions about Herbal Remedies DB.com
What's this site really all about?
By bringing together links to articles from herbal remedies blogs from all over the web, we create a large up to the minute source of information about herbal remedies and other natural treatments. The helps out readers who are seeking information on this topic and also helps authors and bloggers with more traffic and readers.Are you just taking other people's work??
No! We don't display or even have full articles, only the post summaries provided in RSS feeds from the blogs. Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is employed by blogs to help promote their posts on other sites. We only reproduce what is being provided there. We don't exploit authors by taking their work and displaying it on our site.I'm a blogger, how do i add me feed to the site?
Simply add your blog details here and within a few days we will add it to the list if its content is suitable!Why wasn't my blog aded? or why was it taken off your site?
We are looking for blogs from genuine authors, posting their own original content, of which a clear majority is related to herbal remedies and realted topics. Any of the following could cause your blog not to be accepted or taken off:- a lot of irrelevant content.
- Posting content which isn't yours (appropriate use of sources is fine).
- Not much or poor content.
- Too much advertising (i.e. 'made for adsense' sites).
- inactive blogs
What do the votes and views numbers mean?
We allow readers to vote up or vote down posts so that other readers get an indication about the quality and popularity of posts. This rewards and encourages good blogging and makes the site more useable for readers.If you think a post is particularly worthy, we encourage you to vote for it. Likewise, if you think a post is no good, vote against it.
We also show the number of times a post has been clicked on.
What stops authors clicking their own posts to artificially inflate their popularity?
We track the IPs of all those who view and vote on posts. To try to discourage abuse of the voting system, we disallow the same IP from voting more than once for a post in a certain period. A similar rule applies to the number of views we count also...Why are some posts and blogs highlighted with a star?
A star beside a post or blog title indicates that the blog is a 'friend' of Herbal Remedies DB.com. This means that they have placed a link (specifics are outlined below under 'How do I become a friend...') to Herbal Remedies DB.com on the main page of their blog. This helps to spread the word about the aggregator and increases the benefit for all indexed blogs.What are 'Friend' blogs'?
See the previous entry...Why should I link to your site?
Once we have confirmed that you have placed a link to Herbal Remedies DB.com on the front page of your site, we will give it more exposure and preferential listing.Specifically:
- All pages on our site contain a list of blogs (limited in number) with friends appearing first, ordered by , this means it's far more likely your blog will appear.
- Our bloglist page contains plain text links to the homepage and feed of friend blogs
- You'll notice that many pages on this site have a prominent 'Featured Blog' section at the top. All friend blogs appear here in equal rotation.
- Posts from friend blogs are higlighted with a star, feature larger font and a border.
- Coming soon: popular posts from friends will be promoted on social networking sites such as Digg and Del.icio.us
- Coming soon: All new posts from friends will be mentioned in our Twitter feed...
How do i become a friend of Herbal Remedies DB.com?
Simply place the code below somewhere on the main page of your site or blog and let us know about it. Once we have confirmed that the link is there, we'll add your blog to the list of friends.<p><a title='Herbal Remedies db - Natural Remedies and Herbal Treatments Resource and Aggregator' href='http://herbalremediesdb.com'><img src='http://herbalremediesdb.com/images/link_pic.gif' style='border:0px;' width=144 height=20 alt='Herbal Remedies db link' /></a></p>Which looks like:
