Blocked Blog

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    thome5000 · Member ·

    Hello, my personal blog was disabled today because I’ve tried to add a sitemap, I didn’t know that this was not allowed due to terms of services. Please switch my blog online again and now I know any SEO kind of stuff is not allowed, which I didn’t knew since I don’t know anything about SEO.

    Hope to continue blogging again,

    Thanks,
    Thome

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    socialbfly · Member ·

    Hi Thome…has anyone replied to you about your issue? My blog was suspended today as well and I haven’t a clue why and no one from WordPress has gotten back to me.

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    timethief · Member ·

    @thome5000
    I’m sorry but this is not a matter for posting to a public forum. We Volunteers have no role to play in this process. This is between you and Staff. You have a warning notice on your dashboard with a link in it. Please click that link and be patient while waiting for Staff to get to you.

    If you contacted Staff by using the “click here to contact us” link in the notice, our ToS department definitely received your request. Please be patient as they’ll be getting back to you as soon as they can.

    Reference links:
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/suspended-blogs/
    http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/

    WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org: The Differences > http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

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    timethief · Member ·

    @socialbfly
    If you received a warning on your dahsboard it contained a link for contact Staff. Please use that link.

    In a nutshell free blogs from and being free hosted by wordpress.COM cannot be used to drive traffic to third-party sites by means of advertising and/or affiliate programs (see next section for more clarity). E-commerce transactions via shopping carts and the like cannot be conducted on wordpress.COM blogs. No retailing or reselling the work created or services provided by anyone other than yourself is allowed.

    Affiliate marketing blogs
    The only exceptions with regard to affiliate links are found here:

    Affiliate marketing blogs: Blogs with the primary purpose of driving traffic to affiliate programs and get-rich-quick schemes (“Make six figures from home!!”, “20 easy steps to top profits!!”, etc). This includes multi-level marketing (MLM) blogs and pyramid schemes. To be clear, people writing their own original book, movie or game reviews and linking them to Amazon, or people linking to their own products on Etsy do NOT fall into this category. http://en.wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/

    Advertising
    I am sorry, but advertising is not allowed on free hosted WordPress.com blogs. The only exceptions are for high traffic blogs that qualify for and are accepted into the Ad Control program, and very high traffic blogs that qualify and are accepted into the paid VIP hosting program.
    http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
    http://vip.wordpress.com/

    If you require an ecommerce site, advertising and/or affiliate links on your blog, you can hire a web host and get a free software install from http://wordpress.org In that case, please see the information at the link below to learn about the differences between free hosted WordPress.com blogs and WordPress.org software installs for self hosting. http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  • staff-blorbo · Staff ·

    If you contacted us through the “click here to contact us” link in the notice, our ToS department definitely received your request, and they’ll be getting back to you ASAP.

    As a policy, please refrain from discussing ToS issues on the public forums.

    Thank you for your patience!

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