My application to BlogCatalog was declined; reason?
Thank you for submitting your blog Make Your Own Website (http://starising.net/) to BlogCatalog.
Unfortunately upon reviewing your blog we are unable to grant it access to the directory.
Your blog was declined for the following reason:
* The URL you submitted is not a blog.
That can’t be. This site is definitely a blog.
I made another submission, rejected again, reasons:
Thank you for submitting your blog Make Your Own Website (http://starising.net/) to BlogCatalog.
Unfortunately upon reviewing your blog we are unable to grant it access to the directory.
The most common reasons for not getting into Blog Catalog are:
- We could not verify ownership of your blog. A link back, widget or meta-tag is required to verify site ownership. visit: http://www.blogcatalog.com/buttons for more information.
- The URL you submitted is not a blog.
- The URL you submitted is solely for commercial purposes, or is suspected to be spam.
- Your blog is brand new and/or doesn’t have enough content to make it truly valuable. If this is the case, please resubmit after you have made more postings.
- Your blog contains pornographic material.
- At the time of review your blog was unavailable or there was a typo in your submission URL. Please make sure the URL submitted is correct and accessible
If you believe this to be a mistake, you can login to Blog Catalog ( http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/manage_blog.html ) and change anything which may have caused it to get declined. After updating your blog, it will be put back into the submission queue.
This only 2 reasons I could agreed to are:
- Your blog is brand new and/or doesn’t have enough content to make it truly valuable.
If this is the case, please resubmit after you have made more postings. - At the time of review your blog was unavailable or there was a typo in your submission URL.
Please make sure the URL submitted is correct and accessible
Site not accessible at time of verification is possible and common. I only need to submit for the 3rd time.
However, not having enough content is more likely to be the reason..
I accept this.
What I need to do is to re-submit after 30 posting or so.
So meanwhile, I’ll keep writing – one every other day, and continue to submit to other blog directories..
Tags: linking • SEO
Category: Promote-Website
Friday, January 29th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
We just got our rejection notice as well. Also along the lines of not enough content/brand new blog. Which makes little sense to us… since we’ve had the blog for a year now, and update at least a couple of times a week. Rejection stings, but there are plenty of Blog directories in the sea…