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Why do blogs get declined?

Posted by josephlayden • 5/22/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic

I keep trying to get my new blog at blogger.com added and they keep rejecting it. Is there a way to find out why it's being rejected? Thanks!

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5/22/07

TonyB

There are a number of main reason blogs get decline on BlogCatalog. The first is our goal is create a valuable resource of quality blogs on the site. If we see that a blog's sole (primary) purpose is to manipulate people into clicking on adsense or some other ads, then the blog will get declined. If a blog looks as though it is something thrown together simply to benefit from page rank then it is declined. In essence we are looking at the bloggers intent in creating the blog. If it looks like a splog it is declined. Your new bog was declined because it only has one post on it.

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5/22/07

jteitelman

because there is a demented little man sitting in a dark office somewhere in the central US who takes pleasure in declining people and then laughs at their pain! Think I'm kidding?! I know him; he's scary!

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1. 5/22/07
  
  AngieA
  
  LOL hahahaha 2 funny.
5/22/07

TonyB

JT..he lives in your brain ?

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5/22/07

VioletsVintage

I like to read blogs that reflect some of the authors personality and ideas and I didn't realize until recently how many blogs there are that are just filled with crazy ads....(bleck) I don't want to hurt anyones feelings but I'm glad there are some standards.

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5/22/07

MeleahRebeccah

ME TOO! I HATE the spammy bloggers and spammy comments and spammy pages... Its enough, its annoying. I refuse to have a single ad on my personal blog page, its just such a TURN OFF.

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5/22/07

josephlayden

Oh I see- thanks SitePro. I'll try again once I've got some more posts on it.

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5/22/07

sabareesan

my blog is declined three times here.my url is www.easymoneybag.blogspot.com can any one me help me regarding this thing..

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1. 5/22/07
  
  AngieA
  
  sabareesan
  
  Read what SiteProPlus wrote above.
  I think your blog falls in the decline category.
  Its a big ad not a blog.
  Sorry guy.....try editing your blog a bit.
2. 7/18/07
  
  kenjfleck
  
  You need to add the Blog Catalog link to your page and then resubmit your blog. I had the same issue the first time i submitted mine.
5/22/07

AngieA

JTeitelman...
You sort of look like the Wizard of oz - "And what is your wish, my dear"?

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5/29/07

josephlayden

WOW. My blog got declined again and it has LOADS of great theories and information now. The letter I got said it was overly commercial, but I cannot fathom why. If I stand to make any worthwhile sum of money from it I would really like to know why. It's just my theories on our prehistoric past, and a list of extremely interesting web sites on the subject that I have come across over the years of research into the subject. I haven't even finished any of the stories I plan to write about prehistory, much less published them.

In fact, the only thing I see commercial on it are the two links provided by blogger.com that match the content on the page. I stand to make something like a whopping 26 cents a year off of them.

Of course I have a link to my website where I provide links to places that sell my debut children's book...but I hope providing my readers with a link to my very own book isn't considered overly commercial!
I mean the way I see it, the only reason a new person might want to read my blog is because...hey...I'm an established author! I might actually have something to say!

Here's the blog, maybe you guys can figure it out:
prehistoricfantasy.blogspot.com/

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1. 5/29/07
  
  thegoodknife
  
  We generally decline blogs with very few posts, try adding some more content and then submitting again.
2. 5/30/07
  
  MadameX
  
  I don't think that people read blogs because the blogger is "an established author" and "might have something to say". I'm an "established author", too, but I don't really talk about it on my blogs and I don't link to my books and articles on my blogs except where, on very rare occasion, they're relevant to whatever I'm writing about--the people who read them read them because they're interested in the subject matter and (I hope) because they think I write about it engagingly. An established author ought to be able to write compellingly enough to inspire people to read his blog without selling credentials up front! That, after all, is the primary difference between blogging and other kinds of writing...we can put whatever we want out there and those who are interested can find it, rather than having to go through the agent/editor/publisher "is it profitable" screen. Those who are only interested in "established authors" can just buy our books, right?
5/29/07

josephlayden

Ok...there may be only four posts but they are looooong posts.

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5/30/07

josephlayden

Is there any customer service out there at all?

Here's the rejection note I got today for this blog:

"The URL you submitted is not a blog, is solely for commercial purposes, or is suspected to be spam."

Now, the content that I have written for this blog has FAR more significance than that of the blog that I already have listed in this community and is far less commercial. In fact whereas my currently accepted blog is about news pertaining to my children's book, the declined blog is simply about prehistory. I'm working on some short stories for that particular genre, but they are not available yet, and I am selling absolutely nothing on the blog.

The only thing that could even be remotely misconstrued for commercialism would be the two itsy bitsy ads that blogspot.com puts at the bottom of the page for matching content. I think I'd be lucky if I made 86 cents from those ads in a friggin' entire year!

I really think blog catalogue could be a little more specific in its censorship and do a little bit better job of explaining its actions.

I mean the blog has at least 10 posts, all very, very relevant to the subject of prehistory. What gives?

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7/18/07

awannabe

My new blog got rejected too :-(
Its just a personal ordinary one... Its a diary of sorts.

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7/18/07

josephlayden

Mine was totally my fault. I was a total newb and posted the wrong URL. When I fixed it they had me up and running immediately.

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7/18/07

paralyzingking

mine was approved for over a month and then I just got told it was denied about two days ago even though I didnt change anything. I resubmitted and then it was approved again. Weird stuff happenin' round these parts. Weird stuff indeed.

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