When BlogRush launched I signed up to see what all the fuss was about, the quality of the links was so poor that the code stayed on my site precisely 3 days, therefore I wasn’t surprised this morning when I received an email saying my blog had been rejected, fully expected it to be due to inactivity, not having code in place etc, but no my blog was rejected for unsuitable content.

For the record the blog is the fashion blog Fashion Style You and has 2 full time authors (ok me and someone who knows what they are talking about) with additional material from a couple of others.

BlogRush Quality Guidelines:

  • The blog contains unique, quality content that provides opinions, insights, and/or recommended resources that provide value to readers of the blog. Articles, videos, public domain works, press releases, and content written by others are okay to be used on the blog, but the ratio of unique content should far outweigh content from other sources. Over 99% of the content is unique, although some pieces have come from other sources been rewritten and embellished
  • The blog should be updated on a regular basis (at least several times a month) and should not just go a few months between posts. 60-70 posts every month
  • The blog should already contain at least 10-12 quality posts. New blogs with very little content will not be accepted. 326 and counting
  • The blog’s primary contain must be in English. BlogRush is currently not available for non-English blogs.OK so my spelling is a bit flaky and sometimes my grammar leaves a lot to be desired but its most definitely English
  • The blog should not contain an excessive amount of advertising and links and very little actual content. The focus of the blog should be quality content. No direct advertising on the blog, although each post contains links to resources which do advertise the products (so maybe this is why they zapped us surely not)
  • The primary content of the blog should not be “scraped” content from other sources and/or script-generated pages for the sole purpose of search engine rank manipulation. The focus of the blog should be quality content. wouldn’t know (or want to know) how to write a script to do this
  • The blog’s content (or advertising) should not contain any of the following types of content: hate, anti-racial, terrorism, drug-related, hacking, phishing, fraud, pornographic, nudity, warez, gambling, copyright infringement, obscene or disgusting material of any kind, or anything considered illegal. There are no posts about playing Texas holdem for Semtex whilst high on crack and dancing naked so if this is the one the Lingerie articles and pictures must be too hot for the little boys at BlogRush to handle

So there you have it either they don’t like the links in the blog posts to other sites which contain advertising or the lingerie pics are just too exciting for them. Either way I don’t really care, as I had no plans to try them again, but it’s given me something to blog about on here.

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