After weeks of waiting....

...to be approved by the benevolent admin at BlogExplosion (and my hours spent surfing via their system to earn points), I received this in my email yesterday:


Your site was denied at BlogExplosion.

Title: The Everything Portal to the Web
URL: http://everythingweb.blogspot.com/

This site was denied for the following reason(s):

No Original Content

Our reviewers determined that your site contains content from or links
to nothing but other sources, and does not have any original content.
Because of this, your site does not fall inside the definition of a blog
and we cannot accept it.


Spam/Keyword Site

Our reviewers determined that your site has no purpose other than to
generate money. Such sites include keyword blogs and blogs with nothing
but sponsored posts and largely rely on incoming links to generate
revenue. Such sites are not blogs, they are spam.

Don't you think this is outrageous? What really pisses me off is the Spam/Keyword Site section. Find one single sponsored post. I have two, count them: 2, places I could possibly make money off this blog. If you look in my Ads and Affiliates section in the right, I have referral links to Agloco and FreeCardMatrix. IS THIS SPAMMING???!!! As far as original content, I would like to think the time I've spent writing about websites and cool things on the internet have not gone to waste. Please comment to this post. I don't care if you agree, disagree, or are indifferent, just let me know that you've read this post and what your thoughts are. Thank you, dear readers.

6 comments:

  1. I was denied too :(

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  2. hey you should ry blogmad their cool
    http://www.blogmad.net/

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  3. I understand where they are coming from when you have a lot of links on your blog it looks like spam.
    I know they don't except blogs with download because of possible virus's Sending people to different sites can be thought of as keywords.
    If someone would send me a link to another web page I would consider that spam also.
    Taking a look at your blog that is all it is is sending someone to a different website.
    I wouldn't go don't know if there are virus's.
    Just my thoughts.
    Thank You
    Dawn K

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  4. Hey Dawn K I know who you are I can see from my blog's counter's tracking cookies that you came from admin.blogexplosion.com at the time your comment was left! I know you are BlogExplosion admin! Your comment is a load of bull and you guys are making it very difficult to like you any more. I don't need you anyway, I'm getting plenty of traffic from BlogMad and Blog Soldiers!

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  5. The writers of ZardozZ News & Satire search constantly for interesting feed content and we came across your site today. We would like to invite you to add your site's url to our ZZ OpenWeb Blogring as your material appears interesting and aligned with our readership. If you are interested, you can find further information at the ZZ OpenRing. This is not meant as spam but as a sincere invitation. Hope you'll join us... -- OpenWeb Staff

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  6. I don't know why that should anger you. after all even a cursory look at your blog seems to indicate that their evaluation is correct. I do not know if you make much money off your blog, don't care. But it does appear you promote things. It may be that you actually like the things you promote and make no money off them, but there is little signs of original content on this blog.
    And it seems to me that blog-explosion has the right to decide what sorts of blogs it allows in its blog network. And after all there are other ways of generating traffic than blog explosion. If they are wrong about your blog then its their loss, if they are right, you have other avenues available to you.

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