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HotScripts.com Submission Guidelines

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Thanks a lot for your interest in submitting your resource to HotScripts.com. We have established these submission guidelines to make HotScripts.com as useful as possible to our users and at the same time ensure that your listings are validated in a timely manner.

We reject the following types of sites:

  • Sites that have already been submitted to HotScripts.com. Multiple submissions using different URLs, titles, descriptions are not allowed.
  • Under construction sites or sites consisting of broken links on homepage.
  • The site must be in the English language, or have a version that is in English.
  • Affiliate, partners, and authorized vendor or distributor website.
  • Sites dealing with pornography, casino, hate, racial sentiments, unlawful practices, illegal products.
  • Sites created solely for displaying Google AdSense advertisements and other similar advertisements
  • Sites with poor design and with a lot of advertisements

We reject the following type of listings:

  • Beta or under development scripts.
  • Turnkey related scripts
  • Adult-oriented listings.
  • Webhosting companies.
  • Fake hits, fake clicks type of scripts
  • Nullified and warez related scripts.
  • Modules or plug-ins related scripts (unless these can be run as standalone applications)

Title Guidelines

  1. Use the official title of the product, service or website.
  2. Make sure that the title of your listing is unique. For example ‘Guestbook Script’ can be renamed to ‘Sam’s Guestbook’.
  3. Do not include any version number in the title.
  4. Use proper abbreviations if your title is longer than the allocated space.
  5. Do not use all CAPITAL letters or unnecessary punctuation marks, symbols or letters, company slogans or promotional language in the title. For example, titles like ‘The best PHP Guestbook’ will not be allowed.

Description Guidelines

  1. Description should be made as professional and concise as possible (Description should in general include a brief summary of the product / listing and its main feature list)
  2. HTML code, sample programming code, and website URLs are not allowed.
  3. Avoid the use of sales and advertising pitches and claims such as “best script”, “cheapest software” and “buy our script NOW”.
  4. Use correct grammar, spelling and punctuation.
  5. Do not use all CAPITAL letters or unnecessary punctuation marks, symbols.

Site URL and Download URL Guidelines

  1. Make sure that your website and download URL are valid. Use the format http://www.site.com
  2. No order URLs should be allowed as the download URLs for the commercial products.
  3. Users should be able to view your website without downloading or installing any additional software.
  4. Your downloads should be available in commonly used formats like .zip, .rar, .tar.gz etc.
  5. Make sure that your downloads are free from viruses, spyware and other malware.
  6. Files hosted on free file sharing websites like rapidshare.de, megaupload.com is not allowed.
  7. Downloads or websites that encourages users to participate in any marketing activity like “Refer friends to download script” is not allowed.

Price and License Guidelines

  1. Prices listed should match that on your site.
  2. Make sure that the correct currency unit is used. We recommend using dollar (USD $) as the default currency.
  3. Licenses and price fields is mandatory and listings missing these info will be removed from HotScripts.com

Editorial Discretion

HotScripts reserves the right to reject a site if it is below our quality standards as determined by our editors. We also reserve the right to delete a site listing if it violates our existing policies. Finally, we reserve the right to move your listing to another category or subcategory and edit your site title, description without your consent.


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