Oops... They Banned My Wordpress Blog

[Vozzek]

My Wordpress blog got banned today, after about three weeks of daily posts. The whole thing was geared toward affiliate marketing, a couple of Clickbank products I was promoting. Guess I should've read their TOS - and that's my fault entirely.

That being said, I was wondering if other blogs (blogspot?) have similar conditions. Although I was affiliate marketing I was generating my own unique content, and I spent a lot of time making about twenty or so high-quality posts packed with good information.

I'd LOVE to somehow retrieve those posts so I can at least post them as articles (any ideas on that?), but if they're gone - they're gone. My fault for not saving them in a .txt doc before posting. I guess I just didn't forsee my blog being banned... although it was designed to sell and promote things, it was still pretty innocent and I had some positive comments from readers.

For three years now I've been creating my own websites and promoting them in other ways (linkbuilding, article writing, press releases, directory submissions, etc...) I'm new to blogs, and don't want to make this mistake again.

So is this a Wordpress thing? Or am I going to run into this type of problem whenever I blog about promoting something?

Thanks for the input!

[gr8liverpoolfan]

Look for any cached versions Google may have of your website and take all the articles that it shows.

As for Blogger, the chances of your blog being pulled down is quite low in comparison to WP.com.

[hotalexa]

Follow the rules next time, or if you can't just buy your own domain.

[bob25]

Mostly a Wordpress thing as you can't have commercial links on their free blogging platform. It's a good thing it happened early before you spent to much time on it.

That's a good example of why you should get your own domain, just imagine spending months or years writing articles, building backlinks, bookmarking, etc. only to have some free host change the TOS or violate them and have it disappear. Like Geocities which closed down earlier this year. I use them, but only for backlinks using spun articles.

[izzatz13]

That's the reason I switched to paid hosting. You never know what coming right at ya..

At least when we are on our own we know we can never be wrong and it give us some space to play some dirty tricks

[Vozzek]

First off, liverpool fan, thanks for the cached page idea. Between google and bing I was able to retrieve 7 of the 18 chunky posts I'd made. Good call on that!

I also learned along my journeys that Yahoo sucks as a search engine.

What the rest of you have said is true... owning your own domain is the way to go. I'm running 25 different sites right now, most of them commercial, some of them affiliate sites. I love the freedom of doing whatever the hell I want, whenever I want, without having to worry about moderators making stuff go bye-bye whenever they feel like it.

I jumped on the blog bandwagon because it seemed like an attractive (especially Wordpress - good looking blog service!) easy way to post a few articles with links back to my site from yet another source. But you know what? I'd probably be better off writing the articles as pages on my website(s), rather than putting them up elsewhere.

I dropped Wordpress a line, asking them politely if they could allow me to retrieve my content. Even if they reactivated it for an hour or two, I could grab the stuff I did. Not holding out too much hope there, but I did ask nicely.

Thanks guys!