Waterjets.org
Listings
FAQ's and Terms of Use
Page Contents:
What's
the value of a listing?
Visibility:
The Waterjet Web Reference gets approximately 20,000 to 40,000 visitors
per month, though occasionally the number of visitors may spike for
some months of unusual activity. (For example, December of 2006
had a spike of 26,500 visitors in a single day due to exposure from
Make Magazine). For the year of 2006, the Waterjet Web Reference
had a total of aproximately 350,000 visitors, which is an average of
approximately 30,000 per month.
The Waterjet Web Reference is perhaps
the most
highly visited waterjet related web site on the Internet. It
is top
ranked for the key words "waterjet" and "water jet" in Google, and
places very high in nearly all major search engines for waterjet
related search terms.
Quality of
visitors:
Visitors to the Waterjet Web Reference are highly targeted visitors -
Many of these visitors come
specifically to find job-shops to do work for them, or suppliers of
parts and consumables for
their machines.
Search
engine strategies:
Your listing on the Waterjet
Web Reference can link back to your web site, which not only attracts
more people to your web site, but also leverages off the Waterjet
Web Reference's high placement in search engines, to increase
visibility and ranking of your web site to search engines.
Waterjets.org Listings
Terms of use
Our goal is to create a place where waterjet
related
businesses can advertise themselves, and web users can easily find
listings for
waterjet-related businesses.
- Paid
listings may be changed by you
at any
time, and the updates will appear immediately.
- Your
listings are subject to
approval.
Waterjets.org reserves the right to reject or edit submitted
content.
- All listings
must be submitted to
their appropriate category and geographic region. You are responsible
for the accuracy of the listing.
- Listings
that
are not related to
waterjets may be rejected.
- If your
company fits in multiple
categories or has multiple geographic locations, you may create
a listing for each category or region by purchasing additional
listings, one for each region or geographic location.
- Waterjets.org
will take every
reasonable action to ensure that the web site and all registered
listings are available to the whole internet at all times. However,
Waterjets.org assumes no responsibility for interruptions of service
due to software or system failures that may be beyond our control.
- Waterjets.org
strongly urges you to
pay via PayPal. Doing so gives you
more flexibility in terms of managing your account subscriptions.
If
you pay via check/mail, Waterjets.org requires payment in full year
subscriptions and you lose the ability to change between "premium" and
"basic" listing status during this term.
- All payments
to Waterjets.org are
non-refundable.
- You may cancel your listing
at any time.
- Waterjets.org
will not share your
administrative email address given to us with any third party.
(though your "contact" email address will be posted to the public as
part of your listing. If the administrative and contact email
addresses are the same, then it will be shared, of course.)
- By uploading images, you
understand that you are the owner of the original images and give
permission for waterjets.org to display the images you submit to our
web site. (Do not upload any images that you are not the owner of.)
- Waterjets.org reserves the
right to remove any images and/or cancel listings if submitted content
is offensive or inappropriate.
- Waterjets.org
may periodically send emails related to your listing to your
administrative contact
email.
- These
terms
of use may be subject to
change.
- If you need assistance or
have questions, please contact us.
Waterjets.org
Job
Shop Listings Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's):
Q:
How much do listings cost?
A: For all listings except for equipment manufacturers: Standard
job shop and supplier listings are US $9.00 per month.
Premium
listings are US $23 per month. For equipment manufacturers,
standard listings are $49 per month, and premium listings are $199 per
month.
Q: What is the difference between a
"Standard" and a "Premium" listing?
A: Premium listings enjoy special treatment. For example, they
appear above other listings in the same category and region, have
additional room for more detailed
descriptions, and are displayed in a larger font. When signing up
for a listing (before you pay), you
have the opportunity to view how your listing will look under both
styles so that you can make a more informed choice.
Q:
How come the Waterjet Jobshop Listings are no longer free?
- The Waterjet Web Reference started out as a free listing
service. This worked well when there were only a few
listings. However, as the number of listings has grown, so has
the management required to keep it up-to-date and running
smoothly. In order to continue to serve you and the industry well
we had to switch to a paid service model. See
also: What's
the value of a listing?
- With an automated system, it's very easy for people to
"spam" the system. Charging for listings insures that only those
who are serious enough to pay money are listed.
Q: I already have a job-shop
listing. What do I need to do?
A: All legacy listings have already been transferred to the new
system. You should have received an email with your
password and instructions for next steps. If you have not, contact us.
Q: I have an existing listing, but I'm
unable to log in with my email address and password, because my email
address has changed and/or I don't know my password. What should
I do?
A: Send us an email,
and ask for a new email address and password to be assigned to your
existing account.
Q: Can I have more than one
listing? How do I do that?
A: Yes you can, simply sign up just the way you would for a new
listing, one for each region, geographic location,
service, etc.
Q: What does it
mean
that my listing is a “subscription”?
A: That is the way that PayPal handles recurring
payments. Each month the subscription
fee is automatically deducted from your credit card, or other payment
that you
specified in PayPal. If you subscribed
by mail (check), then you have paid for an entire year and your
account will
expire at the end of the year unless another payment is made. An expiration notification will be emailed to
you
prior to your end date.
Q: Can I list non-waterjet
related shops or services?
A: Not at this time. Our focus at the moment is
to provide an extremely targeted audience to waterjet and abrasivejet
job shops and suppliers. By listing non-waterjet related
businesses we risk reducing the value of the service.
Q: What happens if my
email changes? How do I log-in?
A: Log in with your old email address, edit your account,
and then change your primary contact email address. If this does
not work, contact us.
Q: I have already signed up for a
listing in one category, and I want to change to another
category. Does this work?
A: Yes and No. If you signed up for a listing in Job-Shops,
Abrasive-Suppliers, Hardware-Suppliers, Services, or Software Vendors,
then you can change your category after-the-fact by simply logging into
"edit my listing", and changing it to a new category within this list
of categories. However, you can not change to "equipment
manufacturer" without adding it as a new listing. If you are
signed up as an "equipment manufacturer", then you cannot change to
another category. (This is because "Equipment Manufacturer" is a
category with a different price point than other categories.)
Note that you can also sign up for multiple categories, if your
business spans multiple categories.
Q: If I subscribe to
a “Basic” account, how do I upgrade to a “Premium” account?
A: Log in to edit your listing, click on the
"Upgrade to Premium" button and follow the on-screen
instructions. The upgrade will happen automatically but your
credit card will not be charged until your next payment due date.
This only works if you paid by PayPal. Unfortunately, if you
paid by mail, upgrades are not available during your current
subscription term. You must purchase an additional listing on the
web site.
Q: If I subscribe to
a “Premium” account, how can I "downgrade" to a “Basic” account?
A: Log in to edit your listing, click on the
"Downgrade to Basic" button and follow the on-screen
instructions. The downgrade will happen
automatically but your credit card payment will not change until your
next payment due date. This only
works if you paid by PayPal. If you paid by mail, you will have
to wait until your premium subscription expires and then sign up again.
Q:
I want to put a banner
advertisement on the Waterjet Web Reference - Can I do that?
A: Yes. Click here
for information on banner advertisements.
Q: How do I cancel my
subscription?
A: There are two options depending on how you paid. If you paid
via PayPal, then you can go to the "Edit Listings" page, click on
the "Cancel" link at the bottom of the page and go through the steps
provided by PayPal. Once you do this, you will no longer be
charged for future payments. If you paid via mail (check), your
listing will
expire one year from the date payment was first received (listings paid
for
by mail are non-refundable.)
Q: What can I do to be listed closer to the
top?
A: Make sure your web site links back to either
http://www.waterjets.org, or http://listings.waterjets.org, and that
you edit the "link back url" item in your listing to indicate that you
have provided the link. Also, upgrade to a premium listing, if
you
have not already.
Q: What determines the
order in which listings are displayed?
A: Here is the order in which listings are currently displayed:
- Premium listings that also have links back to
http://www.waterjets.org or http://listings.waterjets.org, which have 2
stars by them, are listed first.
- Premium listings that do not
link back (one star listings) are listed second.
- Standard
listings that link back are listed third, followed by...
- standard listings
that don't link back.
- Finally, expired listings are listed last,
or not at all.
If there is more than one listing in a given
category (for example several premium listings), then the order they
are listed in is the order that the listings were signed up for (so
oldest listings first - an incentive to sign up soon). Note that
this listing order may change slightly in the future (for example, it
may some day be alphabetical, reverse-alphabetical, random, or some
other method.) Also, in search results listings may appear based
on search relevancy, such as closest to searched for zip code, etc.
Q:
Who owns waterjets.org?
A: The Waterjet
Web Reference is owned by Olsen Software,
LLC. Contact us
for more
information.
Q: Does the Waterjet Web Reference
sell anything?
A: The Waterjet Web Reference only sells advertising space. We do
not sell equipment or other services.
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