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Sign up for a free account on TheBoutiqueCritique.Com and join the ranks of the most popular boutiques & boutique designers on the net. Increase your traffic and have fun participating!

Important: you must be sending productive traffic in to remain on the list. Make sure you have a banner or text link in place on your site our your site will not appear after each reset (approx every 90 days)!

How does this work?
The Boutique critique is a free traffic exchange network to help bring quality traffic to your web site! Powerful software tracks unique traffic in and out and prevents cheating. Visitors to your site come from similar websites and the more visitors that come from your site, the higher your site appears on the list! The list updates every hour and resets every 60 days. Simply click the "add your site" link to become a member.

I just signed up. When will my site appear?
Your site has to have a minimum number of votes in from several unique visitors before your site will appear. This is to ensure that webmasters are placing the voting code on their site and not just clicking the voting code to activate it, but not placing it on their site (a common cheating practice). The site is updated hourly. So, your site should appear w/in an hour of you placing the correct voting code on your site and you receiving a few votes (clicks on the banner) from your site! Make sure you linking code appears correctly on your website. Your link code should look like this: (replace your username) http://www.treasuresbylindsay.com/top/in.php?id=username

What Do I Need To Do To Be A Featured Site?
The Featured Site is prime real estate on each of the ranking pages! Of course the Featured Site on the home page is the best possible place to be! Each page runs a little differently but the listing is chosen at random. Here is the breakdown for how to qualify to be a Featured Site on the various pages:

To Be A Featured Site on the	You must be in the top
Home Page	100
Pages 2+	500
Category Pages	25 (of that category)

Depending on member count, these numbers will change. The numbers are set up to reward productive member on the home page and category pages.

My site disappeared off the list. Where did it go?
If all the sites numbers are very low, then the list was recently reset and your site will appear again once you have a vote in. In order to give new members an equal chance of climbing to the top of the list, the site resets every 60 days and all sites start at 0. After each reset your site will re-appear on the list once you get another vote (when someone clicks on our banner). Requiring your site to have votes in to appear on the list is to ensure a fair and productive list. Otherwise, sites that send in 0 traffic will be unfairly gaining traffic! A top list site with 300 members allowing sites to appear with 0 hits in, is an over inflated list redirecting traffic to sites that really aren't participating. It is unfair to active sites. We all want quality not quantity! If it doesn't appear that the list was reset, there may have been a problem with your account and your site may have been removed or suspended.

How are sites ranked?
Sites are ranked by the number of unique visitors that click on the boutique critique link that you place on your site in a 24 hour period. The more visible the link on your site, the more people will click on it to move you up in the ranks. Sites are also offered productivity bonuses. That means, if you send in an active visitor that clicks on other member sites too, you will get bonus hits for sending in quality traffic!

I added a banner during sign up. It is now gone!
Banners that are broken or distorted are removed. Most often the case is that you moved the image. It is great to update your images, but if you rename them, they will not appear on other sites! The other reason banners are removed is because you haven't added a 468x60 size banner. This is the only size banner allowed and if you add a different size banner, it will appear distorted because the system makes all banners conform to this size. In order to ensure a quality looking site, distorted or broken banners are removed with out notice. If your banner was removed, you are encouraged to add a new banner. But please remember that only 468x60 banners are allowed and make sure your banner URL looks similar to: http://www.yourwebsite/468x60banner.gif