Digg is banning some sites which are useful. Here is a list of some banned sites. The articles from these sites cannot be submitted at Digg.
Digg is banning some useful sites. Recently when I tried to submit my article from Computersight, I got a message “This URL has been widely reported by users as being regularly used to spam Digg’s submission process and cannot be submitted at this time”. I waited for some time and tried another time. Then the same message repeated. Whenever I tried I received the same message.
At last I contacted the Digg support and they answered me that I could not submit that article because it was spam. I was stunned by the reply because neither the article nor the website contains spam content. At that time I got curious about the spamming or banning of websites at Digg. Then I searched for and learned many things. Here I am sharing the information with you.
There are three types of bans in Digg:
Permanent Ban:
When you try to submit content, a message appears saying “URL is on the banned submit list.” This is a permanent ban.
Temporary Ban:
“This URL has been widely reported by users as being regularly used to spam Digg’s submission process and cannot be submitted at this time”. This may be a temporary ban. Some sites which were listed with this tag don’t appear to be currently banned.
Banning for Some Period:
Sometimes the banning may be for a period of time. Then the message appears like this “Please link directly to the story source. This URL has been reported as a news middle-man, it will remain blocked for x days”, x being any number.
Digg banned many famous sites like Geocities, Furl, News Now nearly one and a half years ago. But after sometime it let many of the banned sites backed in.
Actually, Digg banned adult content of all sites and some sites containing spammed advertisements.
At present some domains and websites are banned at Digg.
Here is a list of some banned sites. The articles from these sites cannot be submitted at Digg.
Computersight
You can find excellent computer related articles here.
Ezinearticles
Ezinearticles.com is an online writing site for expert writers to post their articles to be featured.
Go Articles
Goarticles is a free content article directory.
Indian Pad
This is a social bookmarking and blogging site like Digg.
June 19th, 2008 at 6:17 am
This is good to know, Valli!
June 19th, 2008 at 7:17 am
Useful information
June 19th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Thank you Icy and Louie for reading and commenting.
June 19th, 2008 at 10:02 am
my own site was recently banned for middle-man, DailyBLT, doesn’t really matter though. Digg is not the king of traffic as Kevin wish’s they were.
June 19th, 2008 at 11:18 am
Good to know. Thanks Valli!
June 19th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
That is interesting and useful information.
June 20th, 2008 at 6:37 am
Quoting DailyBLT: Digg is not the king of traffic as Kevin wish’s they were.
Sorry to say this, but Digg brings a monster of traffic to any site withing an extremely short period. If the need to submit is very “urgent”, consider submitting to some other search engines. Or just blog about it, and someone will submit your own site to digg
June 20th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Thanks for sharing! Take care!
June 20th, 2008 at 11:05 am
thanks for the interesting info valli
June 21st, 2008 at 7:57 am
Valli, thank you for sharing this useful information with us.
Take care.
June 21st, 2008 at 10:00 am
This is something I didn’t know about before. Thanks for the info.
June 21st, 2008 at 11:58 am
Shame they’re doing this, there are so many good pieces on these sites. They’ve also banned gameo… (the site which publishes material about gaming etc.)
June 22nd, 2008 at 12:40 am
Thank you all for reading and commenting. I hope Digg will remove ban on these sites.
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Thank you for sharing this info. I have tried using Digg for my articles, unfortunately, it has not worked out for me
June 28th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
this is very good to know! But I think that digg should really look at the sights that are being reported as Spam, a lot of them probably arent
October 8th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Thanks for shearing this information
October 10th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
I believe they ban some sites because they are websites that Triond submits too, and they think that people just want to make money.
January 17th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
I was wondering why I could submit one of my computer-related pieces. Thanks for clearing that up.