The backlog of work left by our taking holiday to attend festival has left us too overloaded to publish a June installment. July’s issue will release as scheduled on the first of the month.
A quick word before I go…Have you heard about LiveEarth? 7 Concerts, 7 Countries, 1 Day! All to combat global warming. Have fun and help at the same time. The US venue is Giants Stadium in New Jersey, the UK event will be held at Wembley Stadium in London
WebWeaver was created to fill the gap left when so many witchcraft, pagan and occult oriented search engines closed shop. In order to fill this space in good conscience, it became paramount to us that WebWeaver contain valid, useful links that would appeal to the wide range of interests of the community. To create this resource we chose to go about it the hard, manual way, the human edited way, for quite a few reasons:
Many search engines auto-approve submissions which allows spam links to infiltrate what promised to be a useful search engine. By manually validating submissions to WebWeaver, we avoid listing spam as well as yet-to-be-completed sites.
Prior to its inclusion, each site submission is reviewed by human eyes though we do not pass judgment on the actual content of a site. Whether we agree personally with the views of a site is irrelevant as long as the site might be of interest to some in the community. What sites will not be approved?
Human editing also allows WebWeaver to avoid the influence of keyword spamming, the practice of placing keywords in a title or repeating them numerous times on a page simply to achieve a higher search engine ranking.
We strive to properly categorize submissions to make browsing the directory more user-friendly. Not all sites fit neatly into one category and so we allow a site to be placed in up to three different categories.
Every so often, Arachne will go on a cleaning spree to clean out dead links. Nothing is worse than clicking a promising link to get a 404 Error or a parked domain. Dead links waste time and are something that we strive to eliminate in our effort to serve the community.
During a cleaning spree, each listing is re-reviewed to make sure that the link is valid and the site still properly categorized since some sites will change their focus often.
You can help by reporting dead links, rating sites and suggesting sites that you love. If you have a listing with WebWeaver, please, please, please keep it up to date. Through your account, you can modify all criteria for your listing as well as delete it.
You can also spread the word about WebWeaver by just talking about us on message boards or by adding one of our banners to your site.
Because of the reasons outlined above as well as some left unmentioned, we think that it produces the best resource for the community. And yes, we are real, live, honest to goodness, human beings.
Helikas has sold out of our largest web hosting account, the Professional! Thank you to all clients who have chosen to upgrade or purchase this account as it allows us to make the largest donations to selected charities.
For those interested in upgrading to or purchasing a new Professional account, more will be made available soon.
Sapphire Moon offices are back to full staff. We were back on Monday, but Monday seemed like such a bad day to go back to work.
All WebWeaver submissions will be processed today.
The festival was a great time and a much needed break for everyone. We thank you all for you patience during our much needed rest, but now its back to work.
Find out what’s new and what’s on its way under the Sapphire Moon
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