Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Getting locked out of your blog

Has that ever happened to you? Especially if you're on Blogger, Vox, or one of the other free blogging platforms. Last week someone I know was locked out of her blog because they thought it was a spam blog. How they confused her blog with spam I don't know. She posts several times per week and they're all personal posts. She doesn't do paid posts or even have ads on her blog.

Anyway it took them almost 5 days to unlock her blog. Meanwhile there are blogs out there that scrape other peoples content and are nothing but adsense blogs and they're fine. I dont' understand how they decide what's spam and what's not because they're getting it woefully wrong.

It did happen to me early in my blogging career. I only had around 10 posts because my blog was brand new. A day later I was unlocked and I didn't have to do anything. What did you do when it happened to you?

2 comments:

ids said...

Yes. I also had my very new (with around 10-12 posts) blog marked as spam.

This is what I did to get it cleared.

Ishan.

Sabrina said...

Crazy isn't it?!?! Blogs that really are spam don't have any repurcussions but regular blogs get tagged all the time.