FAQ

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT:

SITE LOOKING

The site doesn’t look okay or looks small?

There are many internet browsers and versions. If our site looks distorted, look if your browser has a Compability View button.

If our site appears small in your display you may use the browser’s zoom to increase its size to one acceptable for you.

SUBMISSION OF YOUR FREE TEXT AD

Does my site, blog, shop, store, site page, etc. have to be about the Victorian, Edwardian, and/or Civil War Eras?

Yes, it must be related in any way with those Eras, or with some site page with related content in order to be approved. In this last case the URL to be registered would just that web page. Commercial, historical, educative, etc. related sites are welcome. To submit it please go to the GET YOUR FREE TEXT AD at the upper menu.

Are sites from any part of the world accepted?

Worldwide sites are accepted. Please at submitting use the direct URL of your site’ English version if available.

I got an error message when entered the verification image text (Captcha)?

Carefully enter numbers and letters in the same order and exactly as they are. Letters are always small ones.
If you get an error message go back and refresh (reload) the page due it is needed to get a new captcha image. Enter again your data and try this time with the new verification text (Captcha) displayed.

VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: Chrome and Safari users have reported problems with the Captcha image (it doesn’t reload with a new image when the page is refreshed in order to get a new one), so automatic submission fails. This doesn’t seem to be happening with Mozilla and Explorer.

So if you get a continuous CAPTCHA ERROR MESSAGE when attempting to submit the form you may try using Mozilla or Explorer, or write to me (Margaret Clarke at [email protected]) with the requested info of your site in order to add your free text ad manually. I’ll be pleased to do it for you and will send you a submission confirmation Email when done.

When would my site be “active” on the listing to start to go up?

Once your site is approved for us it will appear in the listing.

But your free text will start to go up toward the upper positions after you have added within your site the HTML button code (or the other ways as explained below) sent to the email address you used for registration, uploaded the site change,s and clicked once on the personalized button.

I submitted a site but I don’t find it listed?

We recommend to use the Control + f key board find searching tool to look for your site’s tittle you submitted. Remember that the listing has at his moment 10 pages.

You may also use the Search button located at right of the upper menu at the SITES LISTING page. In this case look for especific keywords (as less common as possible tu reduce the number of sites found) you used in your site title and/or description.

Remember that alll sites will be revised for us before approval according to what we have indicated into the first two questions of this FAQ.

What about the Privacy?

When submitting for a free text ad you must provide us your valid and actual email address that you are able to check due you will receive important instructions of how to get the most from having a free text ad in our listing.

We assure you that the email address will not be shared, or included in a mail list, or sold to third parties in any way. It is also not public in your free text ad. However we eventually could send you some information about our site that we consider it can be of your interest.

YOUR SITE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER (ID) IN OUR SYSTEM

What is the ID?

Your ID is the number that our system assigned to your site when you made the submission, and identifies it for all the tasks you want to do with your free text advertisement.

I don’t know how to get the ID of my site fre text ad?

The easiest way to know your ID is just pass the mouse arrow over the link to our site you added in yours and see the linking URL at the bottom bar of your browser.

But if you haven’t added the link yet, look for your site title in the listing (as explained above) and pass the mouse arrow over it.

The linking URL is similar to this one:
www.victorianeralovers.com/topsites/out.php?id=2620
and the number that appears after id= at the end of that URL is your ID.

In the above sample the ID is 2620, and note that it is “out”, so it counts the visits your site gets from our site.

You can also get your ID number by clicking over the five white squares (Site’s statistics) that are at the right of your free site text ad in the lisitng. A new window will be opened with your ID number and other data of your site.

If you still are not able to know your ID please contact us as explained at the end of this FAQ page.

PERSONALIZED BUTTON

Is it really necessary to add the button (or other link) on the site?

It isn’t a must but as explained above your free text ad will go toward the upper positions (more possibilities that our visitors see it) if you add it according as is explained below.

It’s important to do it due it is a tracking button which allows to count the visits it produces from the page where it was inserted making your site going up in the listing which means better position and better visit chances to your site from other visitors of the guide

Why is the button personalized?

The button is personalized because it is associated with your ID which is unique in our system.
The button image is this:

Which is its HTML?

The HTML is the code used for web editing that has the script commands to show your personalized button appropriately linked to your site ID once added in your site homepage (Or any other visited often). You will get it at the opened page after you make the text ad submission appropriately, and in the email you will received from us to confirm your submission.

An example of button HTML is:

<a href=”http://www.victorianeralovers.com/topsites/in.php?id=2620″>
<img src=”http://www.victorianeralovers.com/topsites/button.php?id=2620″ border=”0″>
</a>

Where may I get my personalized HTML?

This HTML was displayed in a new page once you submitted your site, and also sent to the email address you used for registration.
But other way to get it once again is clicking on the “LOST BUTTON HTML” button found on the upper menu at the SITES LISTING page, and entering your ID.

How to add the personalized button in my site?

Copy on the clipboard the complete HTML code and paste it into the appropriate place of your web editing sotware.

If you use Dreamweaver© or a similar web editing software these instructions could be very useful for you to insert the code into a page of your site:

– Open the page where you want to add it with your web editing program.

– Put the cursor in the middle of the place where the button will be inserted.

– Right click mouse and look for the “insert HTML” command.

– Click on it and an empty blank will open. If it already has these symbols < >, delete them in order that not appear in your site.

– Use control + v on your keyboard to copy the HTML, paste it at the blank and hit enter on your keyborad.

– Save page changes and upload the new page to the server replacing the existent one. You may use an uploading FTP program as Filezilla, or your host provider File Manager tool.

If above instructions are hard for you, it’s strongly recommended you request your webmaster or a person with enough knowledge to do this task.

You may also add the button just as an image linked to the URL with your ID as explained below.

Why when I added the HTML only a script was showed?

This happens when the HTML is copyed, pasted and inserted into your site just as a text instead of an HTML code. You must add it using the “insert HTML” tool of your web editing program.

Why when I added the HTML just an X instead the button is showed?

This is due that the HTML was baddly copied and/or pasted.

How to add the button as an image linked to my URL ID?

If you want your text ad climbs up the listing and can’t add the HTML code, you may add the button image showed above in this FAQ section, download and save it into your PC, upload to your site and link it to your URL ID:
http://www.VictorianEraLovers.com/topsites/in.php?id=XXXX
where you must substitute XXXX for your own number ID in our system.

Note that it is “in”, so it counts the visits our site gets from your site which allows your text ad to go up in the listing.

You will get your URL ID at the automatic email we sent you with the HTML code after you submitted your free text ad.

Add the linked image into your more visited page of your site (Usually is the Home Page, but any other with high traffic is okay too) in order to get better positions in the listing.

Once it is added, please click on it in order to activate your ID in our system and start the lisitng climbing.

May I use a text instead of the personalized button or an image?

Yes you may copy this short text:
VICTORIAN ERA LOVERS, Biggest guide of Victorian, Edwardian and Civil War sites
and paste it into your site, and link it to:
http://www.VictorianEraLovers.com/topsites/in.php?id=XXXX

where you must substitute XXXX for your own ID number in our system as explained above.

Then upload your upgraded site page to the server where it is hosted (If you aren’t familiarized with uploading it would be better you ask your webmaster or a person with enough knowledge to do it).

GOING UP IN THE LISTING

How to go up in the listing?

The best and honest way to go up in the ranking is to insert your personalized button in as many site pages as you can besides the home page.

This way, all clicks to the button, image or text that come from those pages will be counted by our system making your site to go up faster in the listing due there are more chances that your visitors click on your button adding votes to your site counter.

What about cheating clicks?

Besides IP detection (continuos visits from the same IP are no counted) we also have many other forms to detect cheated clicks in our Data Base. Any site’s ad that is found using this practice could bedeleted from the listing, so it is preferably don’t do it.

PASSWORD

What if I forgot/lost the Password entered when submission was made?

Just click on the “LOST PASSWORD” button at the upper menu on the SITES LISTING, introduce your ID and submit. A link will be sent to the email you used for registration. Click on it and you’ll be redirected to our page where you can enter a new password. It will be activated immediately.

Note: Some Internet Service Providers (ISP) blocks emails with this kind of links. If you don’t receive the email even looking for it into the spam (junk) try please contact us for helping you.

CHANGING THE SITE DATA ENTERED

I want to change the data entered in my initial submission?

You can change your site data and email address. Just click on the EDIT YOU AD button at the SITES LISTING and enter your ID and Password. Make the changes you wish in the form and enter your password once again. Click on Submit and it is done.

Note: Do not use this form to change or to recover your Password. Use the LOST PASSWORD button as explained above.

May I change the URL?

No, the URL you entered can’t be changed, you must make a new submision for the new URL you wish to submit.
And if you submit a new URL you must also add to its home page the HTML button code you will receive by email in order it can counts the visits when somebody clicks on it.

STATISTICS

Does your system have statistical information about the submitted sites?

Yes, you can find statistics of all the listed sites by clicking on the five little squares located at the right of each site description text.

Once into the stats page you will find a lot of data within the last five days, classified into 6 parameters:
Unique Hits In
Total Hits In
Unique Hits Out
Total Hits Out
allowing you to have a traffic view of your site or any other one.

LINKS EXCHANGE

Do you accept link swapping?

We don’t use link exchange, but you can add your site free text ad in our listing for free click on the GET YOUR FREE TEXT AD button found at the upper menu of this page and inserting the button HTML, image or text linked to our system URL as explained above.

However, if you still wish to have a link to VICTORIAN ERA LOVERS in your site please click on the upper “LINK US” button of this page where you will find all the necessary info to do it.

We would be very grateful.

HAVING A BANNER IN YOUR SITE

What if I want to have a banner ad of my site into yours?

Although to have your site url, title and descriptionlisted in the SITES LISTING is a free advertisement, to get a banner is optional and paid…And that is how we can keep Victorian Era Lovers up in the web, so we will highly apreciatte that!!

Please click on the upper “ADVERTISE WITH US” button at this page to get full information about the advantages of having a banner on our site….Thank you!!

OTHERS DOUBTS OR QUESTIONS

I have another doubt or question that it isn’t mentioned here?

If you have any other question or doubt which is not answered in this page, feel free to email us. Our email address is at http://VictorianEraLovers.com/advertise.php