• The main focus of your home page should be about rap/hip hop music. If it isn't about hip hop but it is about music, you should submit it to Arts/Music/Personal_Homepages/. If it isn't about music, it should go to Society/People/Personal_Homepages/.
• If you are a hip hop group or artist, and you are not recording and not playing gigs, you should submit your site here. If you are recording and/or playing gigs, you should submit it to the appropriate location in Arts/Music/Styles/Hip_Hop/Bands_and_Artists/
• If your site is a fan site for a group or artist, it probably belongs in Arts/Music/Styles/Hip_Hop/Bands_and_Artists/ in the group or artist's category.

  (As an example: If you have a DMX fansite, you should submit it to Arts/Music/Styles/Hip_Hop/Bands_and_Artists/DMX/. If DMX didn't have a category (it does), you would submit it to Arts/Music/Styles/Hip_Hop/Bands_and_Artists/, so that when they collect enough links, they can make a DMX category. If your DMX site was in German, you would submit it to an appropriate place in World/Deutsch/Kultur/Musik/.)

Okay, so now that you are sure that this is the correct place for your site, here's what you should do to get your site listed quickly:

• Don't say that your site is under construction, or that there is "much more stuff coming!" If your site is under construction, you should finish it, and then submit it. If there's enough content so that we do list it now, and then you do finish it, the description will be wrong, and you'll need to get it fixed.
• If your site crashes computers because it's buggy, we probably won't list it.
• If your site is already someplace else in the directory, we probably won't list it again.
• If you want your description to talk about what's on the site, don't say ".. and more" or "..and much much more". That isn't very helpful, and we'll remove it.
• Your site is cool. That band is great. But that's subjective, so we change those sorts of descriptions. If you tell us what's on your page, we'll use that. If you tell us your site is the wickedest ever, we'll change it to say "Includes photos, stories, and links". or something equally lame.
• Spell out words. Don't say "pics" and "info", say "pictures" and "information"
• Don't put in weird capital letters, or no capital letters. The description should be a sentence- only capitalize words that are proper nouns, and the first word.
• We're big fans of complete sentences and correct spellings. I know, I know, we’re wacky that way.
• If you give us the wrong URL, the server is down, or for whatever reason, we are unable to find your site, we aren't going to add it. We aren't going to double and triple check your dead links to see if they work now.

Thanks,
ODP Arts/Music/Styles/Hip_Hop/ editors