~Forum Rules~

 

Rules for Bloggers and Business Owners:

These are our rules for how to post on these forums if you run or are affiliated with, a travel business, travel website, or a blog.

 

Bloggers-

 

We welcome bloggers to post on our forums and encourage you to keep on blogging - we love blogs! But, we have a few rules.

 

Please follow these guidelines:

 

You may NOT post solely for the purpose of recommending your blog. Do not start a thread just to get people to go to your blog.

 

If you have travel information on your blog and someone asks a question that one of your blog entries answers, you may post a link to the page, but be sure to include some basic information in the post, don't just link to your page.

 

If we feel you have posted just to promote your blog, we will delete your post. Please put a link to your blog or website in your signature. That will appear on all of your posts.

 

 

Travel Business Owners-

 

We welcome people in the travel industry to take part in our forums, but we ask that you NOT promote your business in your posts. If you post in any way that we think is promoting your business, your post will be deleted.

 

We have these strict rules because we want these forums to remain a place for discussion, not a place for promotion of goods and services. Our goal is to keep the forums as commercial-free as possible, so that our members are not being "sold to" when they are reading the forums. We ask all businesses to respect this.

 

We at 'Italia Living' pride ourselves on keeping this online destination a place where we can honestly and personally recommend the products and services we feature here.

 

We ask that all travel businesses consider contacting us regarding information about the possibility of advertising/partnering with 'Italia Living', in our Travel section.

 

Please follow these guidelines:

 

Do NOT put your domain name as your member name. If you do this, we will edit your profile and change your member name.

 

You may include a link to your website in your profile and your signature. The link in your signature must be a simple link displaying either the URL or the business name - it cannot be a long advertising phrase. If you put an advertising phrase in your signature, we will remove it. You can link to only ONE website.

 

You may NOT post recommending your business.

 

If you have travel information on your website and someone asks a question that your page answers, you may post a link to the page, but be sure to include some basic information in the post, don't just link to your page.

 

If we feel you have posted in a thread just to have your signature with your website displayed and there is not good content in your post, we will delete the post. For example, "You will love Tuscany" by a poster with vacation rentals in Tuscany linked to in their signature. This post would be deleted. However, if you posted with some interesting information about traveling in Tuscany, we would not view it as a commercial post.

 

 

A Final Note~

Grazie for understanding and many thanks to everyone who takes the time to come post on the Italia Living Forums. Your questions, comments, advice, experiences, and thoughts are creating a wonderful and valuable virtual Italia community.