BlogCatalog - Submission Declined

A lesson worth learning

Well, I thought I was doing the right thing, but I ended up learning a priceless lesson. You know how the saying goes; "if it ain't broke, don't fix it!" Guess I've made a mistake. I didn't listened to the wise old man's words of wisdom.

This blog here was formerly known as Web Directory, a sub-dormain with Blogger. Then I changed it to BlogBeginners.com after I bought a brand new domain name at GoDaddy, something that I should have done when I started blogging many moons ago. With a new domain name, I've to start all over again when it Page Rank fall back to zero! It's okay, after all these while I've learned a thing or two about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and I'm sure I can bring this blog back to it former PR4.

Anyway, that's not what this post is all about. Back to BlogCatalog, I thought I wanna make it easier for my readers and especially to my followers that Web Directory has changed to BlogBeginners.com.

After filling up the new information (as you can see on the image below), I submitted the form expecting to receive an answer after 48 hours.

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Less than 12 hours later, I received an email from BlogCatalog telling me;

Dear ArahMan7,

Thank you for submitting your blog BlogBeginners.com (http://www.blogbeginners.com/) to BlogCatalog.

Unfortunately upon reviewing your blog we are unable to grant it access to the directory.

The most common reasons for not getting into Blog Catalog are:

• We could not verify ownership of your blog.
  A link back, widget or meta-tag is required to verify site ownership. visit: http://www.blogcatalog.com/buttons for more information.


• The URL you submitted is not a blog.


• The URL you submitted is solely for commercial purposes, or is suspected to be spam.


• Your blog is brand new and/or doesn't have enough content to make it truly valuable.
  If this is the case, please resubmit after you have made more postings.


• Your blog contains pornographic material.


• At the time of review your blog was unavailable or there was a typo in your submission URL.
  Please make sure the URL submitted is correct and accessible

If you believe this to be a mistake, you can login to Blog Catalog ( http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/manage_blog.html ) and change anything which may have caused it to get declined. After updating your blog, it will be put back into the submission queue.

If you have any questions/comments/suggestions/ideas please feel free to contact us.

Thanks,
BlogCatalog

Yeah, I believed there was definitely a very BIG mistake! Come on, this blog (when it was known as Web Directory) has been approved by BlogCatalog's admin and I was submitting the same old blog with it new name and new url. Okay, let's go back and run through the list maybe I did leave something behind;

• We could not verify ownership of your blog.
  A link back, widget or meta-tag is required to verify site ownership. visit: http://www.blogcatalog.com/buttons for more information. - ok, got a widget on the sidebar


• The URL you submitted is not a blog. - gee, this IS a blog!


• The URL you submitted is solely for commercial purposes, or is suspected to be spam. - gotcha, wrong on both counts!


• Your blog is brand new and/or doesn't have enough content to make it truly valuable.
  If this is the case, please resubmit after you have made more postings. - wrong again! This blog is an antique.


• Your blog contains pornographic material. - you gotta be kidding! This blog ain't no porno.


• At the time of review your blog was unavailable or there was a typo in your submission URL.
  Please make sure the URL submitted is correct and accessible. - Definitely NO typo!

Alright, everything was in order and checked to be correct. Not wasting anymore time, I login to my account and resubmitted the same old blog with the same old information that I submitted earlier. Let see how BlogCatalog took the submission?

Updates: Your blog (BlogBeginners.com) has been reviewed and your updates have been approved.

That's great. It didn't took long before BlogCatalog approved my submission (before I could finished this post, hehehe!). Anyway, now you can add me as a friend and follow any of my blogs on BlogCatalog.

See ya' and take care.

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