skymanhonor - 6:29 pm on Feb 22, 2004 (gmt 0)

You are abosolutely right. I was thinking more in terms of coming up with some guidlines or ideas everyone could use - but the best way to do that may be to look at some specific examples.

I have a travel guide for a region. And it is by far the most complete, attractive and usable site with the most content. The next compeitor is the chamber of commerce which has a small unattractive site with not a lot of information and only member listings.

I want my site to be listed on the best website that covers the region my region is in. But they only list sites that are "official:.

So the real measure of "official" for my case is whether the webmaster for that regional site agrees or not.

One option is asking what they consider official. But it would be nice to not have to do that.