Rejected by BlogCatalog

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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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..

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Category: Promote-Website
Friday, January 29th, 2010 at 4:18 pm

One Response to “Rejected by BlogCatalog”

  1. 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…

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