Well, it’s happened. The spammers have damaged it for the rest of us. All our Tumblr accounts have been suspended, good content or bad.
We’re only supposed to have 4-6 people in our teams. Ed Dale went on Facebook and found teams with hundreds of people. When they all were asked to give new blogs some hugs, those blogs got hundreds of hugs in a very short period of time. Not natural. So, they got suspended. But those of us following the rules were suspended too.
Apparently, some of the affiliate links were pure feces as well. This type of stuff is considered spamming, an attempt to manipulate Google, and Google doesn’t like it one bit. Google will find out quickly when you “bulk market” a new topic or page, and it will get you put into the Google Sandbox. That’s where your site goes until Google can decide where and whether you belong. The Sandbox means your site is crawled and indexed, but you get no page rank at all until Google can decide what to do with your site and its content. No page rank means you don’t show up in any search results.
Fortunately, I wrote all my content either in Wordpad or in Google Docs. When my Tumblr blog was suspended I put up a new blog on blogger.com and copied my content to it. I’m working on my second phrase this week. I had only been working on one phrase. I want to make time to come up with a third phrase as well.
Unfortunately, I’m not getting anywhere near the ranking in a short amount of time that I had with Tumblr over the weekend.
Whenever you socially bookmark a quality site, it’s like making a deposit in your bank account. Whenever you honestly give a site with poor content a thumbs down, that’s good feedback for the site owner to improve.
Again remember, no one site or umbrella phrase should contribute more than 10% of your traffic, sales, and profits. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.
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