If you have a website with a Cancun theme and would like to be listed please sign up for an account - it’s totally free. Your website can be about anything to do with Cancun. It could be your blog, your Cancun based company, a personal homepage that advertises your condo, a commercial site, yes - even a message board or anything else as long as it has Cancun content as it’s main focus.

If you’d like to know a little more of how the priciple works then please read on:

What is CancunTop100.com?

Cancun Top 100 is what is known as a toplist. All sites listed in a top list have a common theme, in our case all sites have a strong element of content devoted to Cancun or the Riviera Maya. A toplist works like a league table, sites that send more traffic comparative to other sites receive a higher listing. So, the more visitors you send the higher up the listing and the more prominent your site becomes. The more prominent your site the more visitors you receive back.

Where does the traffic come from?

The theory is that:

1. All participating sites will be feeding in visitors who already have an interest in Cancun web sites.

2. Add in the organic traffic from search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN searching for Cancun and Riviera Maya related terms.

3. Add in people who bookmark the site (because it provides a useful reference point) and return in the future.

4. because the links open in anew window most visitors visit more thna one site listed.

Given all the above the productivity of the traffic is good (the number of visitors out outweighs the number of visitors in)

So, you should receive many more visitors than you send. All these visitors will be highly targeted traffic who are seeking Cancun information and they will already be interested in your Cancun web site.

How many hits do I have to send?

The simple answer is none at all. Some toplists work by only showing those sites that send a minimum number of hits, but I have set the site to display your web site even if hasn’t sent a single user so as not to penalize smaller sites. Of course though, you must have the linking code on your page. An automatic check can be made to look for the code on all members sites. Please play by the rules and maintain your code. Short periods of downtime are acceptable but if you remove the code or never place it then your site will be removed from the list.

What kind of site can I submit?

Any kind of site is fine, but it must have significant content about Cancun. It could be your blog, your Cancun based company, a personal homepage that advertises your condo, a commercial site, a message board or anything else as long as it has Cancun content as it’s main focus. Click here to submit your site.

What is Cancun Site of the Moment?

Each time a new user visits the page your site will also have a chance of being shown in the very top position as the ‘Cancun Site of the Moment’. This means that even small sites will receive high visibility once in a while. The chance of your site being featured as ‘Cancun site of the moment’ is random. So, if there are 20 sites featured in the top list your site will show up once in the top spot for every 20 visitors. Hopefully, we’ll be attracting hundreds of visitors a day once established and therefore your site will receive great exposure.

How is traffic in and out recorded?

Once you sign up for an account you will be provided with a unique linking code. You should place this code somewhere on your web site. Obviously to send more people, and consequently receive a higher ranking you should place the linking code in a highly visible area of your site. You can use text links or a banner or even include your link on a mailing list you might have. I have yet to add banners but will do so soon and make these available. If you don’t know html very well then don’t worry, create an account and then log in and you will find examples of the exact code to place on your site.

Once your account is verified then you can log in and make any changes to your text and also view your statistics.

How often does the site update?

The rankings are recalculated every hour and the whole list is reset to zero once a month, this will be kept under review and may well change in the future. As more and more sites sign up then it’s likely we’ll move to having more than one page, introduce a search feature and categories.