Issue 166: Interactive Global Web Directory & Link Exchange

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• If you ask almost any health related question on CureZone forums, you will receive at least one answer, usually many answers within the 24 - 48 hours.  But, if you ask a question of type: "do you know a good dentist in my area, it is possible that you don't get any answer, sometimes for months.
  So far, CureZone web site was very good in helping you locate non-commercial advice and services, but not very good in helping you locate commercial services. Well, considering that we are a non-commercial web site, that was OK.
  
  Another problem with CureZone was link exchange. Links are the blood vessels of internet. The energy lines. Most sites with a common subject try to exchange links with one another in an attempt to attract new visitors.
  
  Since the first days of CureZone , I was receiving requests to exchange links with other web sites.
  I created this Link Exchange page and I was manually adding links as requests were coming. But, since last few years, the number of requests was growing, and I could not find time to review and add all the sites. So today, I have at least 2000 emails from web site owners requesting to exchange links with CureZone ... waiting for me to find the time to add it manually ...
  
  It is time for change!  It is time you place your own links on CureZone without my help. I am just a single person with no free time.
  
  Cure Zone just got a $50,000 worth brand new software: CureZone Interactive Global Web Directory. It is a web site  where you can suggest a dentist, (one that you have had a positive experience with), or a doctor, or a herbalist, or a dental surgeon... You can suggest a good health food store, you can suggest a good site, a good book, a good naturopath, a good practitioner of Ayurveda, a good product, a good magazine, a good video, a good radio station  ....
  
  If you have a web site, you can add your site into the Interactive Global Web Directory and your web site will automatically, the same second, appear on the brand new CureZone Link Exchange page. First come - first take. Hurry up!  The one who comes first will have his/her web site listed at the top of Link Exchange page.
  
  So, how did CureZone get a software worth $50,000?
  
  Well, that is a long story: it all started 6 years ago. At the end of the previous millennium, 1999, I took a job on developing a program for the Global Web Directory.  Business owner was ready to invest more then $50,000, money he got from investors.  But, in the middle of the development of the last version, business owner was killed in Columbia, and his company slowly disappeared...  The web site was taken down.
  I was left with $50,000 worth unfinished software and with many months of my hard work unpaid. I was working 10 - 12 hours a day during those last 6 months.  Don't ask me how much money I lost.
  
  I didn't really like the fact that years of my hard work are now laying in unused, unfinished software, somewhere on a cd, so I decided to invest few more hours to bring it to life. The idea was to finish it and to ad it to CureZone.
  
  I knew that job was huge for a single person, I knew that it was going to take many months (or years), I knew that I could only work on it during my free time, which doesn't exist. So, 2 years later, the first version of the software is ready installed and you can use it.  There are still some parts of the wider project that are not finished, like multilingual web site (10 languages), possibility to ad comments and votes on every ad, ... but the software is already good enough to be used on CureZone.  Now you know why you didn't get any CureZone newsletter for more then 2 months. I just had to finish this software.
  
  The software web pages were designed by professional designers, (not me), and that is the main difference between the present CureZone pages and Global Web Directory.  I am not really a graphical web designer and you can see that on CureZone.  When god was giving sense for aesthetics and colors, I think he somehow forgot me. Anyway, that is the story. Software is now yours.
  
  The Directory exists in 3 separate parts: Global Health Directory,  Global Web Directory (non-health categories) and Global Business to Business Directory. The default page is Global Health Directory.
  
  Here are answers to a few questions that you may ask:

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• How to add URL to CureZone Global Health Directory ?

  • The Directory is organized geographically. If you would like to add your own web site, and you are located in USA, you should start from the front page of Health Directory and click on USA ,  then click on  States and select your state.  Further, you can select your city or town.  Once you are located in the right city/ town, you should navigate through categories. There are over 700 health categories and they are organized hierarchically.  With 2 -3 clicks you should be able to locate the right category.
    On the page of your category, you will find a link Add New Info / New Link to This Category.
    Click on that link and fill out the form. The only mandatory field on the form is site/business name. If you have URL, you should also add it. If you have the address and /or contact phone, you should add it.
    
    Every link included into Health Directory will be shown on at least 2 pages on the Global Directory, and if you select Link Exchange, also on that page.
    
    If you choose to add a link into category Dentists in Kansas City, that link will also appear in the category Dentists of the state Kansas, and in the category Dentists of the USA. 
    That way, by placing a single link on the page of Kansas City, you are adding you link on 3 other pages too, including Link Exchange Page.
    Link Exchange page lists all links regardless of geography or category.

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• I have a health food store, but I have no web site. Can I list my store on Health Directory pages without having a link to a web site?

  • Yes, you can list your physical address, your phone numbers, and also you can have one whole page dedicated to your business, listed on CureZone.  All free of charge.

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• How can I exchange links with curezone?

  • To add a link to your web site on our Link Exchange Page please access the CureZone Global Health Directory and include your link into the proper category.  While adding your link, you will get option to select if you want link to your site included on Link Exchange Page.

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• How to get listed closer to the top of the Link Exchange Page?

  • First come-first take.  The first link added into the Health Directory will be the first link on top of the Link Exchange Page.  The sooner you add your link, the closer to the top it will be listed.
    
    Every link included into Health Directory will be shown on at least 2 pages of the directory, but usually one three or four pages.

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• Can I add a link to my blog?

  • Yes, blogs are like personal web pages.  You can list your blog into appropriate category.

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• Must site be health related to get listed on the Link Exchange Page?

  • No, any site in any category can be listed on our Link Exchange Page.  To add your site in a category other then Health, access our Global Web Directory (non-health categories)   or  Global Business to Business Directory.

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• How can I become a sponsor of CureZone Global Web Directory?

  There are 4 main levels of sponsorship.

  • Page sponsor( $100 per year )
  • Bronze sponsor( $500 per year )
  • Silver sponsor($1000 per year )
  • Gold sponsor($2000 per year )
  • Platinum sponsor($5000 per year)

  CureZone is a non-profit web site.  In order to continue running and developing CureZone web site, we need financial help from sponsors.  Thanks to our first and only Gold sponsor, howhealthworks.com, CureZone has got it's own database server, allowing unlimited growth of CureZone forums and CureZone blogs, and allowing creation of Global Web Directory.  Database server is just one of many investments that curezone may need, so if you have funds, and you would like to promote your web site, you should become a CureZone sponsor?  If you have any questions, you can contact webmaster by filing up this form.

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• What are the benefits of being a CureZone sponsor?

  • CureZone sponsors are listed at the top of all pages of the Global Health Directory.

  • Platinum sponsors are listed on all pages of every country and all pages of every category in the Global Health Directory.  In other words, if you would like to have a link to your web site listed on every page of the Global Health Directory, you will have to become a platinum sponsor.

  • Gold sponsors are listed on all pages of every country, but only into the single, appropriate category.

  • Silver sponsors are listed on all pages of their home country and into the appropriate category.

  • Bronze sponsors are listed on all pages of their home State and into the appropriate category.

  • Page sponsors are listed only on a single page of their home City and  into the single Category.

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• Where can I send sponsorship $$$ ?

  • Please click on the PayPal link  on our donations page. By using your credit card, through PayPal.com, you can transfer any amount of money to CureZone.com.

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• Do I have to be a sponsor in order to have my link included into Global Health Directory ?

  • No, you can have you link included into Global Health Directory free of charge, in less then 1 min, and you can also have one whole web page free on CureZone Directory.

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• Can any web site become a curezone sponsor?

  • No, we do not accept sponsorship from sites and businesses related to porn industry,  gambling, pharmaceutical industry, weapon industry, medical industry, homogenized milk industry, chemical industry, MLM ...  or sites promoting hatred, war, intolerance, racism, nationalism, religious intolerance, crime, fraud,  ...
    
    If in doubt, please contact the webmaster here before you transfer the funds.

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  Don't forget: First come - first take. The first people to submit links will have their links at the top of the page!
  The first sponsors to send sponsorship will have their links at the top of the page!

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