Blogger thinks I'm a spammer.

oh oh. I hope you can figure out how to get un-locked! I seem to recall someone talking about a similar situation in another thread - I'll see if I can find it.

I'd be SO frustrated by that!!!!

Yikes! That sounds awful!

No luck yet finding that post I swear I saw. Sorry

...maybe it was on a blog...

No luck yet finding that post I swear I saw. Sorry

...maybe it was on a blog...

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I suspect you saw it on Miss Snark's blog.

See: http://misssnark.blogspot.com/2005/12/are-you-for-real.html

Mac

MadScientistMatt said:

I went to post a message in Blogger, and found my blog was locked. Seems that Blogger's automated software concluded I was writing a spam blog. Must have been the handmade index posts that pushed it over the edge...

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I had the EXACT same thing happen. I emailed their tech team (can't remember the link, but I just went from the main site) and explained the situation.

It took two requests and two weeks, but they did unblock me, and with apologies.

Mac H. said:

I suspect you saw it on Miss Snark's blog.

See: http://misssnark.blogspot.com/2005/12/are-you-for-real.html

Mac

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YES!!!

Bless you, Mac H. I'm not quite as senile as I thought I was!

This happened to me as well as quite a few people I spoke. Actually some of those people have had their blogs completely deleted without explanation or warning. It seems that adding a lot of links at one time flags the anti-spam brigade into shutting the blog down until someone can investigate. It was enough to scare me into moving all but one blog to their own domains. Now the only thing I have to worry about is server uptime. Hope it works out.

They lock it up if you put up to many links at one time!? Man I just switched looks and have to put all my links back. I hope it doesn't get blocked.

Or are we talking about adding links within the text of the blog posts we write? as opposed to the links list. I've been thinking about writing some posts with links in them.

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They lock it up if you put up to many links at one time!? Man I just switched looks and have to put all my links back. I hope it doesn't get blocked.

Or are we talking about adding links within the text of the blog posts we write? as opposed to the links list. I've been thinking about writing some posts with links in them.

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When I got locked out of my blog, I had posted 30 links on my sidebars to various blogging resources. Apparently, doing this is some kind of "Mark of the Spam Blog" or something. This is why I recommend that if you plan on blogging for the long haul to move off of free hosting as soon as you are able.

Matt I'm glad everything worked out.

Wow, I never heard of that. I'm still so new to blogging it's pathetic.

I don't seem to have any problem with the tons of links I put in. Perhaps it's because they are mostly links to other blogs and not potentially 'commercial' sites? *shrug* Now that I've said this I'll get locked out...

I was going to put up some posts about different aspects of cooking. Like different kinds of soup and have links to different recipes. one for chowder, gazpacho, stuff like that. But I don't want to get locked out of my own blog.