I'm creating links that are redirecting as not allowed?!?

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  wjduncan137 · Member · Aug 22, 2013 at 5:23 pm

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  I am a coach for Beach body and I created a blog to post information for prospective customers, I need to be able to link back to my beach body site page so they can order products from me. When I create a link that may contain a video or information that redirects back to my site wordpress blocks it, if the greatest blogging site is not going to let me promote my business through my blog then I will have to go find someone else to work with.

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

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  lorelle · Member · Aug 23, 2013 at 9:22 am

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  I don’t understand. Why would WordPress block any links?

  I clicked on several links that redirected to your other sites. They worked.

  Consider checking to ensure you filled out the links properly, and consider using the direct link and not a redirecting link to ensure they will go to the right place. Several of the links I clicked said one thing and redirected to another.

  As long as you adhere to the WordPress.com Terms of Service, WordPress staff will not take action against your site, and there is nothing to block well-formed external links.

  Video is another issue. Make sure you are embedding video properly.

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  wjduncan137 · Member · Aug 23, 2013 at 1:30 pm

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  Thanks for taking the time to respond to my issue. I removed all the links that were directing to my beachbody business site, those were the ones that were going to a wordpress landing page saying they weren’t allowed. I added to links redirecting back to my beachbody page at the bottome of this post here: http://whywaitgetfit.wordpress.com/2013/08/22/can-we-end-the-trend/

  Let me know if they work for you or go to that WP landing page.

  Thanks!

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  auxclass · Member · Aug 23, 2013 at 2:22 pm

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  Beach Body sites tend to get suspended

  You might also review the TOS before you get too far along:

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

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  wjduncan137 · Member · Aug 23, 2013 at 2:31 pm

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  Thanks for your response too, it kinda stinks because all I want to achieve is a blog that can offer information all in one place then direct customers to the ecommerce part of it.

  Thanks Again!