I’ve heard the warnings at conferences and especially in the Social Media Optimization field that spamming or multiple submissions to Digg and other social news sites could lead to the banning of that URL from future Digg listings.
Seems that such a horrible fate was brought about on SearchBliss.com although they say that they were not spamming.
From v7n Forums: URL banned by Digg.com
I have an “add to Digg.com” button on my forum among others, “furl”, etc. But now it seems that Digg banned my URL because people were adding my content. Has this happened to anyone else? I guess I’ll have to just remove all of those image links to Digg and stick with furl and del.icio.us.
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Tamar Weinberg on Dec 19, 2006 at 11:44 am
I’ve seen this happen before as well. I’ve tried to submit a pretty darn good article to Digg only to be told that it could not be submitted. When I spoke to the webmaster, he said that he’s been banned from Digg for almost a year and attributed it to the number of buries his Dugg submissions have gotten. Still, judging by the content of his site, I wonder why that would be occurring.
Loren Baker, Editor on Dec 19, 2006 at 12:14 pm
By the way, if your site has been banned by Digg.com, please feel free to list it here :)
Tamar Weinberg on Dec 19, 2006 at 12:55 pm
It is not my site — though I’ll see if he agrees to that. :)
Toivo Lainevool on Dec 21, 2006 at 1:12 pm
Since Digg is banning SEO sites, I went ahead and started a social news site for the SEO community.
http://www.seoyak.com
hata on Dec 22, 2006 at 10:54 am
http://www.digghater.com/
Nyllover on Dec 28, 2006 at 12:00 pm
Mine too… http://www.nyllover.com/blogeng
but it was my fault…i didn’t know it was forbidden to submit my own stories to Digg… wish i could do something now to unban my blog…probably impossible :(
Daniel Michel on Jan 6, 2007 at 8:27 pm
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Quote:
When submitted stories are consistently reported as spam and users complain via our feedback email about submission spam, we ban the domain. The domain will not be unbanned. The domain would consistently get reported as spam otherwise.
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NEW SITE GETS BANNED FROM DIGG WITHIN 6 DAYS - Steve on Mar 28, 2007 at 5:47 pm
Digg.com is getting cocky and banning small web sites just because digg’s users submit them to digg and digg’s moderators don’t like it. Scifidigg.com is the latest victim of Digg’s “We are big, you are small and we can do whatever we want” attitude.
First some background.
After running the website Scifi2u.com for the last year we realised there was a demand for a scifi digg type website – 6 Days ago ScifiDigg.com was born and is powered by open source Pligg and the YouTube API.
So what went wrong?
The site went live on the 22 March 2007. People submitted stories and video links to digg and other sites del.icio.us, Yahoo, Simply and Reddit. Having a submit button makes submitting very easy and fast but that could be a problem.
Let’s get to the point
WITHIN 6 DAYS THE SITE HAS BEEN BANNED FROM DIGG
Digg’s moderators decided that since the link pointed to my site and the posts are mainly videos from YouTube ScifiDigg should be banned from digg and no other links from scifidigg.com can be posted to digg.
Digg’s response
I contacted digg to find out what happened and why they blocked my site. The response I got from them was that my site violated their terms of use, by copying another site. I explained to them that although the video is streamed by YouTube we give the facility for original coments to be added.
The response I got was that they do not allow sites that copy other sites to be submitted to digg. I told them that according to their rules they should also ban Yahoo news, since it does not have an original content but republish articles from PCWorld, Reuters, MACWorld and others. Also falls under this category other major sites like neowin.net, blink.nu and many more that are doing exactly the same infact they should ban YouTube because the video content is often copied from other video websites. But hey, they are big sites and digg can’t pick on them without repercussion, like they can pick on small blogs that try to establish themselves.
So what have we learned?
· Digg’s users don’t really determine what gets promoted, but digg’s moderators do.
· Digg have a different set of rules for small site and different rules for big sites, even though both are doing the same.
· Digg will ban a small site just because one of its user’s submitted an article that other digg members liked and promoted, but moderator didn’t like the link.
· Digg will not listen to reason when told that the site did not violate its TOS.
I am going to create a Digg.com clone for banned sites http://www.BannedDigg.com Watch this space!!!
Pee on Jun 27, 2008 at 2:12 am
I’ve just been banned by Digg.com for some reasons. However, People need second chance. Not just like being banned forever….
Amit Ganguly on Aug 9, 2008 at 6:08 pm
I have been banned from digg. When I contacted them they say, “your blog url has been reported as spam by digg users”. Although, my blog is not a spam. But I made mistakes of submitting it several times, because I didn’t able to find out whether it is submitted properly or not. Also, my computer was giving problem. That is the reasons why my blog url was treated by digg users as spam. Could you please help me to unban my blog url from digg?
Knut Holt on Aug 19, 2008 at 4:21 am
Those bookmarking sites do not follow any consitant policy. They ban whoever they will if they feel the stuff goes against their own commercial aims, or the aims of their be it spam or not. I have had the same experience with digg and furl.
On the other side, there is a lot of spam on those sites that is bever banned.
Frank on Aug 21, 2008 at 9:37 pm
I guess my site http://www.ewagz.com got banned from Digg. It’s an article submission site.
Eventually they will ban everyone and shoot themselves in the foot.
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