I thought that everyone already knew that they could have a website which is banned on Digg, but I guess not! Loren Baker talks about a few websites which have been banned from Digg and how this could have happened.

It seems that if a website has a good amount of buried stories on a certain basis, which is decided by the Digg algorithm, or if the website is a spam website with too many useless Diggs, it can be banned from Digg.

One example Loren mentioned was SearchBliss.com (found on V7N Forums) which reported that his website was banned from Digg. He included a Digg button which allowed his members to submit the stories to Digg. He claims he was not spamming, but his users submitted the Diggs.

It makes you wonder, would you have to suffer the consequences if a competitor decides to get you banned from Digg by submitting spam submissions to Digg?

I knew that a website could be banned from Digg when TextLinkAds (TLA) released their FeedVertising service. Since I’m a small Digg user, I only submit stories which I think are important to me. I decided to submit the page talking about their FeedVertising service and I got an error message which said:

URL is on the banned submit list.

Nevertheless, I found it quite comical that TechCrunch put up a post in a matter of seconds which made to the front page of Digg and basically did the promotion for TextLinkAds! The comical part is the fact that the owner of TLA, Patrick Gavin, was actually promoting the Digg story as well. He even placed a small Digg link on the page (which I noticed) for a few hours until the story hit the front page of Digg!

So if your website is banned from Digg, but you launched a new service which is definitely something others would want to know about, just get a famous blog like TechCrunch to blog it and submit that post to Digg!

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