my blog was deactivated – please help

  • Unknown's avatar
    pegmckie · Member ·

    I was so shocked and sad to see my blog was deactivated. I’ve contacted support using the link provided and I’ve emailed them, but no response yet.

    My blog is to help others lose weight and get fit, blog my weight loss progress, and also to market my Beachbody coaching business. Is this not allowed? I’ve seen many, many other Beachbody coaches’ WordPress blogs set up the same way as mine, and they’re all up and running.

    I appreciate any help you can give me. Thank you.

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

  • Unknown's avatar
    auxclass · Member ·

    The TOS Staff are the only ones that can suspend a blog or bring a blog back – none of the helpers in the Forum have any say in a Blog’s status – and suspensions are never discussed in the Forum.

    You have contacted the Staff and now all you can do is wait and perhaps review the Terms of Service.

    http://en.wordpress.com/tos/

    http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/

    http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/

    I doubt that “someone else is doing the same thing” will be a good defense.

  • Unknown's avatar
    pegmckie · Member ·

    Thank you, auxclass.

    In the event I’m not able to continue blogging in wordpress.com, would you recommend that I export my blog to a different site like blogger?

    Or can I switch to wordpress.org and talk about my Beachbody coaching business there?

  • Unknown's avatar
    timethief · Member ·

    I posted to your other thread. We Volunteers have no role to play in this process. It’s stricly between you and St6aff. Please use the link that is in th wauning notice you received on your dashboard.

    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. E-commerce cannot be conducted on wordpress.COM blogs. No retailing or reselling the products or sevices created or 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 advertising and/or affilate 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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