No public business submissions
Businesses cannot create accounts, publish their own profiles or upload descriptions. The site does not accept automated directory feeds. This prevents duplicate listings, outdated records and pages created primarily for search-engine links.
A business or attraction may still be mentioned when it is genuinely relevant to a guide, but inclusion is an editorial decision rather than a submission entitlement.
No user-uploaded photographs or logos
Images create copyright and permission risks when they come from unknown users. The site will use original images, properly licensed media, images used with clear permission, or other sources where usage rights are understood.
The safest approach is to avoid copying photographs simply because they appear on another website or social-media page.
Outbound links must help the reader
Government, transit, health, parks and other changing public information should generally link to the responsible official organization. Commercial links should have a clear reason to exist in the surrounding content.
Anchor text should describe the destination naturally. The site does not change anchor text on request simply to help another website rank for a keyword.
Corrections are different from submissions
If a factual error is identified in an editorial guide, it should be corrected. That does not mean the site must create a listing, add a promotional description or accept a backlink request.
This distinction allows the guide to remain accurate without reopening the moderation problems of a public directory.
Sponsored relationships must remain separate from editorial selection
If the site ever accepts paid advertising or sponsorship, it should be labelled and technically treated as sponsored content where appropriate. Payment should not determine whether an editorial resource receives a search-ranking link.
Keeping that boundary clear protects both the usefulness of the guide and the credibility of the city-guide platform.
Related-site links are used selectively and contextually
Langley-BC.ca may link to related transportation or travel websites when the destination genuinely helps a reader plan the trip being discussed. These links should appear inside relevant explanatory content, use natural descriptive wording and remain a small minority of the page’s outbound references. Government, municipal, tourism and other authoritative sources should continue to be used wherever they are the better source.
The guide will not place large blocks of keyword-only links, sitewide commercial anchor lists or unrelated backlinks simply to influence search rankings.