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I survive from a vicious caugh to awaken to some good news. It seems Digg has decided to unban many domains that were unjoustly banned which includes SEO news blog. SEO news blog was banned on December 14th 2006 now two months and some later I am unbanned.

Pronet to my best knowledge was first to discover that we were unbanned and published a list of the unbanned domains so far. Also I’d like to thank Skitzzo from seorefugee and Muhammad Saleem from pronet for e-mailing me and letting me know.

Now the reason for these unbannings stems from digg updating it’s algorithm and has taken control of what they call “grouping” behavior or where groups of Digg accounts are controlled or effectively controlled by a person or group and can push stories to the home page or get them buried. This was what happened to anything remotely close to having to do with SEO on Digg.

I’d like to thank the guys at digg for taking care of this and also the SEO community for banding together and not staying quiet while this was going on.

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Digg just announced via their blog that the top diggers list will be removed. According to them people have been misusing their list to claim that those top diggers have been getting paid to digg stories.

The latest scandal came from a website called Payola asking top digg users to digg their stories for $500. This is what led Kevin Rose to remove the list according to him:

So what does this all mean? After considerable internal debate and discussion with many of those who make up the Top Digger list, we’ve decided to remove the list beginning tomorrow.

This new development is aimed at stopping people from trying to influence diggs from top diggers.

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You guys may remember my first post about being banned from digg, well this time it actually happened, I guess they were just getting ready to ban seo news blog. Try to submit any of my new post sand bam you’ll be hit with “that url is banned from digg”. I waited and actually wrote dig demanding an explanation and they just did. Here’s a copy of the email I just got:

Your site was reported as spam numerous times and subsequently banned from submission at digg. Please review our FAQ (digg.com/faq) for more information regarding banned URLs.

–digg support

Diddy1 wrote:

I am the owner of SEO News Blog http://www.seonewsblog.com/ and I want to know why my site was banned. I can’t submit any new stories and I don’t understand why it would get banned since I just started the site and I personally watched all diggs. I am a longtime user of digg and I really want to use my website to bring digg users new and relevant news stories. If it’s anything I did I wasn’t aware of, I apologize but I have read the faqs and I don’t think I’ve broken any rules.

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Now let me point out the fact I’ve personally submitted all 34 posts I’ve posted on here. And all of them, you can through them if you want, had nothing to do with spam. Is it maybe because I submitted them so fast since I’ve been trying to get some established user base as this website is new? I don’t know all the email says is users “numerously reported” my diggs as spam .Even though the ones I submitted all have 2 or more diggs.

This leads me to ask myself why I was banned, do I already have an enemy in my week of running this blog? Is there some kind of closed circle of blogs about SEO that no one else is included in? (aka. matt, seomoz, seoroundtable,…) Either way this just makes me mad and even more determined to have my website make it out there in the SEO world.

I’ll try emailing them one more time asking them to please review my submissions and they’ll see for themselves that it’s not spam. I’ll keep posting with updates.
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I’d like to take a moment to wish a happy birthday to one of my favorite sites out there: digg.com. It’s the second year around and digg’s had a good run. Starting from only one digg to over a million today. One of digg’s original programmers has released an official post congratulating digg on it’s accomplishment. The very first digg of course about google, the google cheat sheet, to the million it has now in only two years. Users are over 700,000 and counting. So Happy Birthday Digg! And good luck we’ll keep following closely in your dust.

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