Merchant Information: Submission Guidelines
Getting Started
Getting listed in MonsterMarketplace Shopping Directory is easy. First, you must be a Network Solutions storefront owner or user, which now means that your online store is supported by the Network Solutions e-commerce platform. Simply fill out the merchant submission form and your information will be reviewed for guideline accuracy by one of our editors. If your site meets the criteria, it will be added to MonsterMarketplace within two weeks of submission. Submission does not guarantee acceptance or inclusion
MonsterMarketplace was built to generate additional exposure for MonsterCommerce clients. Being listed in MonsterMarketplace is FREE, but your store must meet our minimum acceptability requirements.
Submitting Your Store
Submission Form Field Descriptions
When filling out the submission form, you'll be asked to create numerous descriptions about your online store that will display in MonsterMarketplace.
In addition, you can also view the Merchant FAQ's to answer any other questions you may have about MonsterMarketplace.
Minimum Acceptability Requirements
- Must submit unique content for your listing information, cannot cut -n- paste from another website. Listings in violation will not be accepted and deleted from our database.
- Must have a easy to navigate site, with contact info available
- Must have a clean professional design, optimized for all bandwidths - non Flash preferred
- Must be cross-browser and screen resolution friendly (800x600 minimum or 100% preferred)
- NO illegal or offensive web sites. Sites that contain and/or link to pornographic or sexually related material/images including, but not limited to, adult toys, adult DVDs, or lingerie that is too explicit in nature, are not allowed in MonsterMarketplace, nor will they be considered for acceptance.
General Store Optimization Tips
Issues with your store's appearance in MonsterMarketplace
- We recommend as does the MC manual for your storefront, a thumbnail image no larger than 100px by 100px. This will prevent unnecessary resizing by MonsterMarketplace.
- Avoid using HTML in the submission form when submitting or when modifying your listing. HTML in the product description of your MC store administration panel is accepted though.
- Avoid using HTML symbols in your code preceding your menu link text, it causes some menus to wrap as well as appear in front of MonsterMarketplace bullet lists. i.e.
- We recommend you add images to all of your product categories from your storefront admin, these will display in your subcategories when you have an enhanced listing.
- Occasionally you may see a missing image with an "x", this happens when you are "hot linking" images from another site; this should be avoided as much as possible. All imagesshould reside on your server.
- In addition, if MonsterMarketplace still shows a broken image even though you have an image, it is because your site may have been too busy at the time our server made the request for the image, so as to not tax your server, our placeholder appears.