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What are the terms and conditions related to your Enhanced services that include placement of ads on external search engines on our behalf for making a contribution to the site?

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Terms and Conditions

1 - ACCEPTANCE OF SERVICE AGREEMENT
1.1 - By applying for A MediaSyndicate Featured Listing you agree to the Terms and Conditions set out in this document. You also agree to provide complete and accurate information including a valid email address and other contact/billing information as requested in the in the signup form.
1.2 - MediaSyndicate reserves the right to alter, add to or remove parts of this agreement at any time.

2- DESCRIPTION OF SERVICE
2.1 - A MediaSyndicate Featured Listing is a fee-based service provided by MediaSyndicate to consider your site for inclusion into the MediaSyndicate Featured Listing Section under a specific Keyword or Keyword Phrase for a period of 3 or 12 months. Inclusion in the Featured Listing Section is not guaranteed and is subject to the inclusion rules stated in Section 3 (SITE CRITERIA) of this agreement.

2.2 - The fee for consideration of a Featured Listing is NON-REFUNDABLE and DOES NOT GUARANTEE THAT YOUR SITE WILL BE INCLUDED.

2.3 - The fee for consideration WILL NOT BE REFUNDED if your site is rejected due to content.

2.4 - The number of Featured Listings allowed for any given Keyword or Keyword Phrase is limited and therefore the selection of a particular Keyword or Keyword Phrase may not be available. Your fee WILL NOT BE REFUNDED if the Keyword or Keyword Phrase you selected is not available. However, you may select a different one.

2.5 - The fee is a recurring fee that will be charged again at the end of the term you have selected, unless we have been notified that you wish to cancel the recurring billing.

2.6 - Future renewals of your featured listing(s) can be cancelled at any time through the member interface, however such cancellations must be made at least 5 business days before the next renewal date or you will be charged for your next term and your listing will remain active until that date.

2.7 - We strongly discourage using a PayPal account that is tied to a bank account instead of a credit card. We are not responsible for any banking fees or overdraft fees that you may be charged due to insufficient funds in the account tied to your PayPal account.

3- SITE CRITERIA
3.1 - MediaSyndicate will reject any submission, and your fee for consideration WILL NOT BE REFUNDED, for any websites that are determined by MediaSyndicate to include content, services or products that are:

Pornographic or containing Adult Content;
Inflammatory, Offensive or Promoting Hate Literature;
Illegal or in violation of another person's, or company's, rights or trademarks;

Gambling Sites that are prohibited by law from being advertised in the USA.

3.2 - MediaSyndicate will reject any submission, and your fee for consideration WILL NOT BE REFUNDED, for any website whose URL, as submitted, is unreachable.
3.3 - MediaSyndicate reserves the right to consider other criteria for accepting or rejecting a site.

4- LISTING OF SITES
4.1 - MediaSyndicate reserves the right to determine how, where and when the accepted Featured Listings are displayed.

4.2 - MediaSyndicate also reserves the right to remove, or edit the Title and/or Description of any Featured Listing, for any reason, including but not limited to the above Site Criteria.

5- SERVICES AND CONDITIONS OF USE
5.1 - By using the service, you agree that you will not attempt to undermine the integrity of this web site.

6- LIMITATION OF LIABILITY AND WARRANTY
6.1 - CUSTOMER AGREES THAT USE OF THE SERVICE IS ENTIRELY AT CUSTOMER'S OWN RISK. SERVICES ARE PROVIDED 'AS IS,' WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY WARRANTY FOR INFORMATION, SERVICES, UNINTERRUPTED ACCESS, OR PRODUCTS PROVIDED THROUGH OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SERVICE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE SOFTWARE LICENSED TO THE CUSTOMER AND THE RESULTS OBTAINED THROUGH THE SERVICE. SPECIFICALLY, WE DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION: 1) ANY WARRANTIES CONCERNING THE AVAILABILITY, ACCURACY OR CONTENT OF INFORMATION, PRODUCTS OR SERVICES; AND 2) ANY WARRANTIES OF TITLE OR WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

6.2 - THIS DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY APPLIES TO ANY DAMAGES OR INJURY CAUSED BY ANY FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, ERROR, OMISSION, INTERRUPTION, DELETION, DEFECT, DELAY IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION, COMPUTER VIRUS, COMMUNICATION LINE FAILURE, THEFT OR DESTRUCTION OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO, ALTERATION OF, OR USE OF RECORD, WHETHER FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT, TORTIOUS BEHAVIOR, NEGLIGENCE, OR UNDER ANY OTHER CAUSE OF ACTION. CUSTOMER SPECIFICALLY ACKNOWLEDGES THE SERVICE IS NOT LIABLE FOR THE DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF OTHER CUSTOMERS OR THIRD-PARTIES AND THAT THE RISK OF INJURY FROM THE FOREGOING RESTS ENTIRELY WITH CUSTOMER.

6.3 - NEITHER THE SERVICE NOR ANY OF ITS AGENTS, AFFILIATES OR CONTENT PROVIDERS SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF USE OF THE SERVICE OR INABILITY TO GAIN ACCESS TO OR USE THE SERVICE OR OUT OF ANY BREACH OF ANY WARRANTY. CUSTOMER HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL APPLY TO ALL CONTENT ON THE SERVICE.

7- TRADEMARKS
7.1 - All trademarks appearing on the service are trademarks of their respective owners.




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I just submitted a press release and made a payment for 3 months of enhanced services through PayPal. When PayPal referred me back to your site, I received a message saying I was not authorized to see this article. The release is not listed in my account with my other releases and I am concerned that it was not properly received and posted.

I would much appreciate it if you could let me know if there was a problem and what I should do about it. Thanks so much.

No problems.

Your PR is reviewed for content, and I manually choose the highest performing keywords / keyphrases that will deliver the most hits to your PR. So, it takes a couple of hours sometimes.

Thanks for your support!

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Hi,

I've submitted several press releases through your site. Previously I used [site URL obfusicated]. If I do a Google web search on [some key phrase] we're right on the first page. However, if I do a Google New search, nothing. When we used [site URL obfusicated], I could find the releases either way. What is the difference?

Hi,

Your rank in Google or any other site is dependent upon a whole number of factors, several of which are directly tied to the actual writing of your press release. In fact, when I completed a search of your keyphrase, your press release was the third highest ranked posted in the Google search results - right behind the paid listings in Google. So, it might have just taken a little bit of time to be reviewed for content and appropriateness prior to acceptance and submission.

To this end, the main difference behind our site and several other similar services is that all our stories are moderated; most other sites accept just about anything which devalues the content and introduces a lot of duplicate content which also causes stories to rank lower in the search engines. In other words - if you submit to just one or two sites, the likelihood of having a high rank in Google is higher than if you submit to multiple sites, which is subsequently interpreted as spam by Google.

Bearing all these things in mind - as well as a whole host of other things that demand a fairly comprehensive evaluation of your PR content, the submission frequency, the number of sites submitted to, and even the category of submission in each case - it's a bit too complex to immediately determine why or why not something might be happening. If you want to discuss this further, I'd be happy to review with you outside of this FAQ forum at your convenience.

Also, thank you for your support. It is genuinely appreciated, and helps us pay for servers and bandwidth. As a donation-supported vehicle, it is users like you that keep the site going.

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