P3 Strikes Again!
Okay, if you read my other blog entry, this is just as much of a pain… I got denied for having another “sponsored” post up on my site in between my two paid posts… This was my reply:
First off I used to be able to call Izea customer support when I had a problem, what happened to that? And why is it that when I need to send an email I have to go through 4 steps just to try and send an email?
I have been blogging with you guys for the last year now, my first blog got hit and reduced it’s PR from a 3 to a 0, after a long time of rebuilding I finally have another blog with a PR3 that I’ve been using. In the last month and a half I’ve done 56 posts for your company, on this one blog, and some others on my original blog. I’ve made over $800 in that time, of which I know your company makes 35% and $5 per opporunity posted. So my contribution alone has brought in $280 for your company in about the last month or so. As a full time blogger I would think that you would like to help me stay around and continue helping your company what it is. Without bloggers you don’t have any advertisers, and without advertisers you don’t have a job.
Therefore I am very confused as to why you are trying to drive bloggers away. Especially this reviewer you have Erin. Over the last year, and 137 posts I have not had any troubles with my blogging techniques. I have advertisements on my site, none of them detract from, nor disqualify advertisers posts. Yet in the last month I have had several of my opportuniites denied by Erin because on my HOME page, not within the posts, but only on the home page there are in text Kontera ads. I was finally tired of getting posts denied because of it so I removed them from Archmaille.com (my new blog). My old blog codysortore.com/blog/ still has them, and has never had a problem over the last year.
Now that I have removed those I am now being denied for not having a clear “disclosure policy” which is utter crap. My disclosure policy is very good, very clear, and does not mislead my readers in any way. Yet, because my disclosure policy is not going to get my pagerank stripped away Erin does not like it, and has requested that I give up all PageRank and quit making your company money. Excuse me, but no. I will not give up my PageRank again just so that Erin can sleep at night.
The problem is such that I have my disclosure policy under a “Policies” page which contains multiple policies about copyright, paid posting, and other important items to my readers. “Policies” pages have been around for just about as long as the internet, and have been widely known ever since the ecommerce boom on the internet. My readers know what they will find under the Policies page, and so do people just passing by my pages who are not regular readers. Erin wants me to rename that page to “Disclosure Policy” which not only confuses readers, it also gives a nice big fat red flag to Google that say’s “Yes, please remove all PageRank from my site.” Which I will not do. People don’t know what a Disclosure Policy page is, and I won’t be conformed to your cookie cutter blog pattern that gives so many bloggers trouble with the search engines.
My site does very well thank you, if I ever feel the need to destroy all chances of having readers again, or get myself removed from the search engines I will contact Erin. Until that day comes I’m perfectly content with my PR3 website, and will be submitting another PR3 site here shortly when it has 20 posts. I don’t want either one to be reduced to PR0’s at the moment though. If there is no change, and you would still like for me to reduce my site to a PR0 that is fine, it has been nice doing business with you while it lasted, I will blog exclusively for ReviewMe.com from what I hear advertisers with them pay better any ways.
