Down On Our Luck

Obviously my blog is fairly new and I’m still learning some ropes, but I received the now famous “You’re not good enough for Blogrush” email today. I’ll post it word for word for you at the very end for you all to read.

If you received the same letter, I urge you to post about it, even if it’s not related to your blog. Let’s show Blogrush how much damage a bunch of new blogs with only a few posts can do.I write this blog as therapy to help me get through my husband’s gambling problem. I hope other people find it, read it and enjoy it, but I don’t need some big ole company telling me “Your blog isn’t good enough to display our widget.” Do they really think they’ll get any good press telling all of us newbie bloggers that we’re not good enough? Let’s see what kind of damage we can do.

I understand that there were people that manipulated the system and I may sound hypocritical, but I don’t even think the person reviewing the blogs stayed long enough at my site to even figure out what it was about. According to Google Analytics, I had one unique visitor yesterday. This visitor WAS from a direct source, but they didn’t go any farther than my homepage and the time spent at my site was 0:00. How can you make a judgment about my site when you didn’t even spend enough time at it for the page to load?

I’m 100% sure that I won’t be crawling back on the 21st of November begging Blogrush to tell me my blog is good enough now.

All I can say is RIP and you can kiss my butt. How’s that for original content?

Below is the letter I received from Blogrush:

Subject: Your BlogRush Account Is Now INACTIVE

We regret to inform you that your BlogRush Account has been made INACTIVE because your blog did not pass our Quality Review criteria. You will find instructions below for making your account active again.
You will notice that the widget no longer loads on your pages — please remove the BlogRush code from your blog for now.

We recently reviewed your blog(s) located at:
http://downonourluck.com
We determined that your blog did not meet our strict quality guidelines. Please do not take this personally but realize that we must abide by a very strict set of quality guidelines. (They are listed below.)

If you feel you have made the necessary changes to your blog(s) to meet our guidelines, you can resubmit your blog(s) for review after this date:
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
When you login to your account after this date you will notice a similar “inactive” notification message but you will find a “RESUBMIT” button (on that page) that you can use to resubmit your blog for review.
*OR* you can submit a different blog (right now) by following the appropriate link on that same page. (That you will see when you login.)
Your account will not earn syndication credits while it is INACTIVE. However, our system will continue to track the growth of your referral network so you won’t lose any referrals while your account is inactive. As soon as your account is ACTIVE again you will begin to earn credits on any activity from your own traffic AND from the activity of your referral network.
Below is a complete list of our quality guidelines…
BlogRush Quality Guidelines:
- The blog contains unique, quality content that provides opinions, insights, and/or recommended resources that provide value to readers of the blog. Articles, videos, public domain works, press releases, and content written by others are okay to be used on the blog, but the ratio of unique content should far outweigh content from other sources.
- The blog should be updated on a regular basis (at least several times a month) and should not just go a few months between posts.
- The blog should already contain at least 10-12 quality posts. New blogs with very little content will not be accepted.
- The blog’s primary contain must be in English. BlogRush is currently not available for non-English blogs.
- The blog should not contain an excessive amount of advertising and links and very little actual content. The focus of the blog should be quality content.
- The primary content of the blog should not be “scraped” content from other sources and/or script-generated pages for the sole purpose of search engine rank manipulation. The focus of the blog should be quality content.
- The blog’s content (or advertising) should not contain any of the following types of content: hate, anti-racial, terrorism, drug-related, hacking, phishing, fraud, pornographic, nudity, warez, gambling, copyright infringement, obscene or disgusting material of any kind, or anything considered illegal.
Best Regards,
The BlogRush Team

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