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Please find the most appropriate sub-category for the site. Submitting it to the proper sub-category (e.g. a site selling watches should be submitted to Shopping/Jewelry/Watches) will speed the review process. Find the single most appropriate category for your site. With few exceptions, sites will only be listed once in the directory.

Submit your site using your main url.
Use the legal name of your company as the site title.
Create a brief description describing what your site offers for sale. This should be the current content of your site (not the future content).
Marketing verbiage will be removed.

more information (editors only)

This category is for sites selling jewelry and jewelry products at retail prices to the general public.

Please note related category links for jewelry manufacturers, jewelry wholesalers and non-shopping jewelry sites.

Please see overall Shopping category guidelines .


Bead and Gemstone

If your site sells a combination of different jewelry items, such as bead jewelry and/or sterling silver jewelry and/or watches, select just the one category which best fits your overall site and submit there.

Do not submitt your site to every category for which you have jewelry products. Duplicate listings and mirror sites will be deleted.

This category is for jewelry sites who primarily sell necklaces, bracelets, earrings, pins, pendants, and anklets or other jewelry items that are made using common, man-made and gemstone beads.

Body

This category is for the retail sale of body-piercing jewelry. If your site primarily features the sale of body-piercing jewelry add your site here.

**Please note that you must have prices listed on your site in order to be accepted in this category.**

Studios, informational sites, directories, personal pages, and image galleries regarding the art of body piercing should submit their sites to Arts/Bodyart/Piercing or one of the appropriate sub cats.

Manufacturers and Wholesalers of body piercing jewelry should submit their sites to Business/Consumer_Goods_and_Services/Jewelry/Wholesale_and_Distribution/

more information (editors only)

For sites that sell mostly non-body piercing jewelry. Please submit sites selling mostly piercing jewelry in the sub category "Piercing"

Charms

Please check the various Shopping/Jewelry sub categories to see if there is another category that better describes your main product. This category is for retail stores.

Be sure to read the Shopping/Jewelry description for an overview of Shopping/Jewelry guidelines.

Jewelry with a focus on charms, and charm bracelets. Stores that sell charm jewelry to the retail public and offer a price list.

Costume

This category is just for costume jewelry made with vermeil, gold plate, silver plate, sterling silver and vermeil or other base metals such as copper or brass.

Most costume jewelry will incorporate synthetic or imitation gemstones, however natural gemstones are often used with the lessor metals. Another common term used to describe this jewelry is: faux jewelry.

Please do not submit to more than one category, duplicate and mirror sites will be deleted. If the site offers a variety of products, choose the category which best matches the site's overall theme.

Sites that offer strictly wholesale jewelry should submit to /Business: Consumer Goods and Services: Jewelry: Wholesale and Distribution.

And sites that manufacture jewelry for the jewelry trade should submit to Business: Consumer Goods and Services: Jewelry.

Diamonds

Please select the most relevant sub category that best describes the site before listing. If the site fits more more than one sub category, it may be submitted to the top level of Diamonds.
This section will include sites whose main focus is to offer diamond related merchandise, to the end customers.

Directories

This category lists sites which are directories of jewelry shopping related sites or are jewelry "shopping malls."

Websites of individual businesses should not be submitted here and will be deleted without review. Websites of individual businesses should be submitted to the appropriate category under Shopping/Jewelry.

This category lists sites which are directories of jewelry shopping related sites or are jewelry "shopping malls."

Directories and malls categorize their listings and users generally drill down through categories from general to specific to find the shopping sites they are looking for. Must offer a variety of different types of jewelry in several different jewelry categories.

Estate and Collectible

Estate Jewelry is a general term for jewelry that has been owned by others.

Collectible jewelry is a term used for vintage jewelry, often known as Art Noveau, Victorian, and Edwardian.

Sites offering these types of jewelry and/or antique jewelry should be submitted here.

If you also offer other types of jewelry choose the jewelry category which best describes your overall site or submit it to the top level of Shopping/Jewelry. Do not submit your site to multiple categories. Duplicate submissions, listings and mirror sites will be deleted.

Ethnic and Regional

Please submit sites selling handmade jewelry which qualifies as native-made under the American Indian Arts and Crafts Act to Native-Made. Other sites may be submitted to Native-Inspired. If the artists and their tribal affiliations are not identified on the website, it will not be listed as Native-Made.
Sites in this category sell ethnic and regional jewelry. Subcategories have been created for African, Celtic, Indian and Native American.

Sites selling jewelry for a variety of ethnicities can be listed at the top level, otherwise they should be listed in the appropriate subcategory.

Fine Art

Submit only sites presenting hand-crafted, generally one-of-a-kind jewelry items of gallery or juried art show quality. In most cases, the site will identify the artists or artists responsible for the designs. Remember, however, that this is a Shopping category. Items on the web site, or their facsimiles, should be offered for sale.

This category is for original designer art jewelry usually made with precious metals and/or gems, but often with a metal mix including copper and/or brass.

The jewelry sites listed here should be of the same artistic level and quality as that found in top fine art galleries and fine juried art shows. Hand crafted one of a kind work from a well designed and professional web site or high end designer jewelry will be the norm.

Jewelry created with commercial mountings, production jewelry, jewelry sold on TV shopping networks, through major department stores, mass mail order catalogs, or jewelry with a more commercial appeal should apply under other more appropriate categories.

Handcrafted

Please submit sites featuring the work of several crafters.

Please select a sub-category for submission according to the most important component of the jewelry.

If numerous components are evenly used, please select "Beads" as your sub-category.

If you are an individual crafter selling your own work, please submit your site in the corresponding category in Shopping/Crafts/Jewelry/

This category includes sites that sell jewelry that is handcrafted by a number of artisans.

Individual crafters selling their own work are categorized under Shopping/Crafts/Jewelry.

Pearls

Please submit sites to this category only for retailers that handle primarily pearl jewelery.

If your site is focused on freshwater pearl jewelry, please submit your site to Shopping: Jewelry: Pearls: Freshwater, and not this category.

If the site you are submitting offers different types of jewelry, choose the category which best describes the overall site, and submit it there. Sites will not be listed in multiple categories in Shopping: Jewelry.

This category houses sites that primarily offer pearl jewelry for sale. Pearls may be natural, fresh water, South Sea, or cultured.

Precious Metals

You may submit your site to this category if you offer only jewelry made with precious metals. If you also offer watches, fashion or costume jewelry, estate jewelry or jewelry with various themes, please check the categories listed under Shopping/Jewelry and submit to the most appropriate category.

Category listing of jewelry made from platinum, karat gold, or sterling silver with or without gemstones.

Supplies

Sites that sell jewelry that incorporates gemstones and pearls in their products should submit their sites to the most appropriate shopping category.

Please do not submit to more than one category, duplicate and mirror sites will be deleted. If the site offers a variety of products, choose the best overall category match.

Sites that offer wholesale gemstones and/or rough should submit to:

/Business/Consumer_Goods_and_Services/Jewelry/

or

/Business/Consumer_Goods_and_Services/Jewelry/Wholesale_and_Distribution/

For suppliers of jewelry findings and components, tools, materials, metals and loose stones/gemstones offering their products to the general public.

Please review the sub category descriptions and choose the best overall category to list the site. Duplicate listings and mirror sites will be deleted.

Manufacturers or wholesalers who sell strictly to the jewelry trade should submit their sites to:

/Business/Consumer_Goods_and_Services/Jewelry/

or

/Business/Consumer_Goods_and_Services/Jewelry/Wholesale_and_Distribution/

Manufacturers and wholesalers who also sell to the general public from their site will be listed in this category and will not be listed in both /Shopping and the /Business categories.

Theme

Please check the various Shopping/Jewelry sub categories and only submit to Shopping/Jewlery/Theme if there isn't another more appropriate category.

Also, please check the Shopping/Jewelry description for an overview of Shopping/Jewelry guidelines.

Jewelry with a specific theme such as nature, animals, personalized, angels, motorcycle or religious.

Please note the various sub categories under Shopping/Jewelry/Theme.

Varied Merchandise

Sites offering a variety of jewelry specific merchandise belong in this category. An example would be a site offering wedding bands, various gemstones, bracelets, watches, and sterling silver charms.

Sites that can be classified into any of the other more specific jewelry categories should be listed there. For example, sites selling only wedding rings should be listed in Shopping/Jewelry/Wedding/Rings. This category is for sites that are not specific enough to belong in the other existing subcategories.

Jewelry sites should be submitted to the one, most appropriate jewelry category, using the root url. Do not submit various deeplinks to each category pertaining to that product, as they will not be listed.
Sites offering a variety of jewelry specific merchandise belong in this category. An example would be a site offering wedding bands, various gemstones, bracelets, watches, and sterling silver charms. Sites that can be classified into any of the other more specific jewelry categories should be listed there. This category is for sites that are not specific enough to belong in the other existing subcategories.

Watches

Web sites that focus on the sale of watch and watch accessories. The sites must offer shopping capability.

Wedding

For quicker placement in the directory please follow these Submission Tips:

Title: Name of Business or Organization

Description: This describes the website and should note distinguishing features found on the site without the use of hype, personal pronouns, or repetitive terms.

This category is for sites that sell wedding jewelry. Sites in this category will sell a variety of wedding jewelry including engagement rings and bands, tiaras, and accessories.

If the site specializes in handcrafted jewelry submit somewhere in (unless the site focus is rings)

Shopping/Jewelry/Handcrafted/Wedding

If the focus of the site is wedding bands and engagement rings, both handcrafted and non handcrafted, as well as combinations submit to

Shopping/Jewelry/Wedding/Rings

If the focus of the site is jeweled tiaras and accessories submit to

Shopping/Clothing/Formal_Wear/Women's/Bridal/Accessories

If the site offers large amounts of veils or veils are a significant theme submit to

Shopping/Clothing/Formal_Wear/Women's/Bridal/Veils

If the site specializes in general hair jewelry submit to

Shopping/Health/Beauty/Hair_Care/Accessories/Jewelry


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