Some Unfortunate Changes to Blogitive Requirements
The goal for Blogitive is to create a market place for all bloggers to make money. Unfortunately some companies disagree with that vision, and have a limited ability to block it, at least for their users.
Starting on Dec. 4th, we will no longer be able to accept or provide offers to blog hosted on services like writingup.com and blogparty.com. There is a short list of these types of sites that allow you to post content on their site, and then add your AdSense account info to earn money trough clicks. I will not name the companies, but we have gotten at least two companies like these that object to Blogitive being used on their network and have pulled down pages, as well as closed accounts. We are going through our network one-by-one, if you use one of the networks we are discontinuing, we will let you know through email.
Another site that seems to not be Blogitive friendly is WordPress.com. We have gotten feedback that some bloggers accounts there were suspended after posting for Blogitive. So, it looks like we have to knock those blog from the network as well.
I know that this will be disappointing for some of you, which I understand. But keep in mind this is disappointing for us as well. We spend a lot of time and energy into recruiting bloggers to the system. We only approve around 20% of bloggers who apply. So it’s no fun to go back through and narrow the network more.
I would like to make the suggestion that people start creating blogs that live on their own domain. I know it has a cost associated to it, but you can pick up a domain for less than the price of blog posting from us. I could see a time in the future where we make that an unfortunate requirement. We want to work with all bloggers, but sometimes things are out of our control.
Just to be clear, if you have already accepted a posting opportunity, and you on those networks, you will be paid.
[tags]blogitive, writingup.com, blogparty, wordpress.com, wordpress[/tags]
December 4th, 2006 at 7:19 am
Could we keep our blogs listed but for those companies that don’t like those sites just not receive the offers from them or put a clause in there that says must reject if using and then list the sites? At least that will give us a little time to find new blog hosts to get established on since we need to have so many days before we apply.
December 4th, 2006 at 7:45 am
Wouldn’t it be fair to have something like an alternate blog that can be “blogitive approved” if one has a blog on wither one of these sites?
December 4th, 2006 at 12:30 pm
For those of you that use the free version of WordPress, you can get a hosted domain and run the Wordpress software on your own domain.
So you can essentially port over an existing blog into the software from Wordpress on your own domain.
December 4th, 2006 at 12:51 pm
If anyone would like help porting over to a wordpress install, drop me a line.
December 4th, 2006 at 12:54 pm
Just to clear, if we knock your blog out of the system, that doesn’t mean that you are banned from Blogitive. It just means that you would have to establish a blog somewhere else and re-apply.
One thing to consider is that we have to also be fair to our sponsors. They are paying bloggers money based on the idea that the posting will stay up. We cannot in good faith take their money knowing that the posting may very well be taken down.
December 4th, 2006 at 7:57 pm
The changes don’t affect me or my blog at all.. If it allows Blogitive to attract or maintain a large number of sponsors, I’m all for it.
December 4th, 2006 at 8:07 pm
Would it be possible to publish a list of places that DO accept Blogitive? I know many of us here find Blogitive to be a very lucrative opportunity and wish to continue using it’s services but it would be wonderful to have a list provided of places that we can publish through and be 100% sure that our blogs will not be denied.
December 4th, 2006 at 9:54 pm
What hosting services do you still accept?
December 5th, 2006 at 5:28 am
This change didn’t effect me this time - but being Blogger hosted, I’m concerned. What about a blog set up as a sub domain? Would that slow the indexing process by Google to a redicilously long wait?
December 5th, 2006 at 12:33 pm
At this point as long as your blog is on a sub-domain, and it’s not a Wordpress.com blog, you should be fine.
December 5th, 2006 at 1:35 pm
Well, I know myself and other have lost their blogs on:
Writingup.com
Bloggerparty.com
Blogcharm.com
Clearblogs.com
Xeeks.com
Blogfeast.net
Wordpress.com
Geocities.yahoo.com
December 5th, 2006 at 1:55 pm
Transfering a blog to a new host is fairly easy. I recently did this with one of my blogs.
I transfered http://www.monasmall.com/bestdeals
to
http://www.timetobudget.com
If you need to see what it looks like. If you transfer then all of the content on the old blog can still be published on your new blog. Both of these were Wordpress accounts I host on my own domains but it works for transfering from other hosts as well.
December 5th, 2006 at 8:05 pm
If I’m understanding this correctly, it’s not just that advertisers don’t like particular blog sites. It’s that the blog sites don’t like advertising or paid posts and may suspend your account or delete your post anyway. Therefore, the advertisers don’t want their ads on sites that may dump the posts.
December 6th, 2006 at 6:07 am
why’d you remove my blogcharm blog?
December 6th, 2006 at 10:25 pm
Dear All,
I found out about this thread now and saddened by these latest changes regarding our blogsites. Most of my blogsites are in WordPress. I like the ‘category’ section that’s why I transported my two bloggers to WordPress.
Please, can anyone suggest another blogsite with acceptable hosts to Blogitive that I can transport to or does this mean that eventually the same requirement might happen to the other sites? How about Blogger?
Thanks!
Tel
December 7th, 2006 at 9:18 am
It is quite sad what is happening. The whole idea of hosting your blog on your own website is not a bad one, because that is what I do with my main blog in case something like what is happening to Wordpress users and so on should occur. There is a cost but it pays off in the long run.
December 10th, 2006 at 5:12 pm
There are many reliable hosts out there that offer plans that cost less than $5 a month, and provide you with a domain name for free, and you will have tons of space and bandwidth. If you blog for a few different paid to blog sites, the $5 (or less) investment is worth it in the end. Try www.1and1.com or www.ixwebhosting.com . They both offer a variety of plans that includes a plan for less than five bucks a month, and a free domain.
December 11th, 2006 at 2:50 pm
Hi Ed,
I understand losing all my Wordpress although sad about it, but was hoping that my telscafe.blogspot.com would have been retained. I lost it too. I thought Blogger’s ok. Is it because mine is in Beta version?
Tel
December 19th, 2006 at 12:53 pm
Thank god I am on Blogger. So far so good.
January 3rd, 2007 at 12:59 pm
There is no point having your blog hosted on some one else’s server or domain coz you live under a risk of loosing it one day or the other.
Its very easy to buy your own domain name and hosting.A domain name will cost you anywhere from $1.50 to $10 depending on where you buy it from and some registrars are selling .info domains for 99cents (US) and there are plenty of shared hosts who will offer you blog hosting starting from 50 cents upwards per month.
In any case it shouldnt cost you more then $10 a month to maintain a blog of your own.
If you already have a blog on one of these free hosts you dont need to worry just use the data base (some of them allow you to download the mysql data base for a fee) on your own domain.
If for some reason you dont have the experise to mov your existing blog to your newly bought hosting you can just leave links to your new blog there and that should help you get indexed properly and pass some PR on.
So stop crying like a sissy girl and spend a tenner and set up your own blog.
If you are stuck on something I will be more then happy to help you out,just post your problem here and I will answer as soon as i read it
Have fun
For Comment no 19: Adam,
Your blog is not safe on blogspot.Take my word for it. One of my friends had 27 blogs on blogspot which vanished overnight in september last year.
Just my 2cents…
January 4th, 2007 at 10:49 am
Hey all.
Thise who need help in moving over, drop me a note over @ http://melayu.eu cos PPP to have kicked alot of people off their programs due to this.
If you can’t afford to pay for the hosting, I got an ISP willing to give the first month for a penny *(one cent / 1c) and all you need is to pay for the domain,which is peanuts.
I can pull some strings to move you off Wordpress.com or any blog system to wordpress based system, with yr own host etc.
Oh the thing you guys forgot…friendster and a few others are killing it off too.
All I ask is a good mention later on…so everyone makes $ rite?
best wishes everyone!
April 1st, 2007 at 6:03 am
I don’t know what all sites allow advertised posts. I noticed, however, that someone mentioned blogfeast.net not allowing advertised posts. They do allow advertised posts as long as you state that it is a sponsored post, and as long as you put other non-advertisement posts on the site as well. The main problem there is that there were bloggers copying and pasting content from other sites or putting only advertisements that were not listed as sponsored posts, and the site was getting filled with splogs.
April 8th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
sounds Like a great concept. I will watching this closely,
Smoky