Great! I spent two hours this morning (what a waste of time) posting my article onto a blog using wordpress.com and had a link back to my article and site and they've suspended my account, and taken down all of the links..... how do I prevent this from happening in the future?
When I log in it says account suspended for violation of terms of service. I've checked my e-mail. They haven't supplied another reason so i can only assume they marked it as spam.... but I don't understand why?
I think this might help: http://robertlindsay.wordpress.com/...your-blog-suspended-or-censored-by-wordpress/ I've also heard that wordpress also forbids duplicate content. You can try to contact them at support@wordpress dot com or with this form: http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/ Hope this helps.
ok this explains it. thanks for the link, hvalle98. i think I'll go for 5 links a day to be safe and sign up using a proxy... it will take much longer but oh well. I think I over did it, I linked back to 20 of my main articles and did 20 blogs in one day.
You better use Wordpress on your own host, so you have all freedom that you want. Install the plugins you want, use the ads you want to use.
Best bit opf advice you have heard in this thread, and I am only going to echo it again. Set up your own blog on your own hosting, that way if you do make a mistake, you have the chance to learn from it instead of getting a ban from somewhere like WordPress. You have more control over your blog, ftp access, etc, and its just much easier overall.
My thoughts exactly. I've never personally used the Wordpress free blogs. I've used Wordpress as my blog but always had my own domain & host for it. Wordpress is super simple to install and work with even on your own host so if you are familiar with it on their site you should have no problem in making the transition. If you are not skilled in design then you can find good designers to mkae you a custom skin or there are tons of free wordpress styles which I'm sure you are aware of on their site. It really give you the freedom to do what you want on your blog. You should give it a try.
well clearly I am the loser in this situation as if that wasn't already obvious, I'm allowed to be pissed off or am I? Anyway I doubt even the most experienced marketers read the terms of service of every blog site before they start getting linkbacks. Everyone with a bit of common sense will know know spam is against TOS but I did not consider my posts 'spam'. I have posted on several web 2.0 sites in the same way (top ranked ones such as blogger, squidoo etc and have not being banned) the sites have been up for over a week now. at least others will see this and take it as a warning. thanks for the replies guys, I'll do that next time.
Look, instead of letting you walk away pissed off at this whole thing, I will tel you a story. A while back, I was banned for life from AdSense. Partly it was at fault of Google, they made an accusation that was unfounded and very wrong, and I lost alot of money from that, but at the same time, I was advertising on a website that was against their TOS. End of the day, you walk away from this having learned something. If you did something against their TOS, then that sucks... but you learn from it, right? Its not all bad.
Yes I will host on my own server, and next time I will take it slow with the link building and hey I may even check out the TOS before I go all link crazy Mistakes aren't really a bad thing, they're just learning curves. I'm not peeved anymore, I think this morning I was a bit like 'what the hell, two hours for nothing' especially as I delayed going shopping as I wanted to finish putting the links up first lol. You need to make mistakes to know how to get better and stay on the right track, thanks.