Yesterday when I tried to log in to my Digg account I was shocked to see my account as invalid. All my friends, fans, details, submissions etc were gone. For those of you who are thinking “What a big deal in it?” let me tell you that Digg is an almost indispensable tool to promote your blog or site, because of two reasons first – storiesarticles or whatever submitted to Digg are ranked very high in Google and other search engine results. And you can imagine what does that mean to be in the top 10 or 15 (First search results page) search results in Google – hundreds of thousands or more visitors to your BlogSite, (or in other words resulting in more Ad clicks or lots of money). The second reason is that Digg itself is a huge community of bloggers and visitors and if your submitted Post or Article become popular enough on Digg, you just can’t even imagine the number of visitors to your blog (May reach lacs in number per day for Digg front page stories).
If unfortunately you are banned from Digg, then although you can create a new account with a different ID but all your previous submissions will become useless, reason is that they would be removed from Digg, so no visitors from Digg itself (you will have to do all the submissions again). Also the previous submissions will appear in Google search results but the links will become broken and useless as they will return no reply when clicked (Saying something like – “What you are looking for is not here” or “Whoa! Something Blew Up”)
Now in my case I could not understand what went wrong with my Digg account. So I mailed support@digg.com asking the reason. Two days later I received reply telling that I violated their terms and conditions but how? they did not give any further details and also added that the removal of account is an “Irreversible” decision. I was fuming and thinking what the heck I did? Then one thing came into my mind, perhaps the reason of removal is a post of mine that I submitted some days back, so things went this way – some say that this is a Hoax, I spread it and Digg kicked me out!!! As simple as that! but how cruel of them they should have given me atleast one chance.
Now I have created another account with a different ID and will have to do all the hectic work of submission again……And you know something, this very post that you are reading, will be my first submission. Now this is called Tit For Tat.
I will write a post about these very useful social networking and bookmarking sites (Digg, Stumble Upon, Propeller etc.) in my series on Blogging later on…..Bye for now
Now in my case I could not understand what went wrong with my Digg account. So I mailed support@digg.com asking the reason. Two days later I received reply telling that I violated their terms and conditions but how? they did not give any further details and also added that the removal of account is an “Irreversible” decision. I was fuming and thinking what the heck I did? Then one thing came into my mind, perhaps the reason of removal is a post of mine that I submitted some days back, so things went this way – some say that this is a Hoax, I spread it and Digg kicked me out!!! As simple as that! but how cruel of them they should have given me atleast one chance.
Now I have created another account with a different ID and will have to do all the hectic work of submission again……And you know something, this very post that you are reading, will be my first submission. Now this is called Tit For Tat.
I will write a post about these very useful social networking and bookmarking sites (Digg, Stumble Upon, Propeller etc.) in my series on Blogging later on…..Bye for now
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