Adgitize Announces Tougher Blog Guidelines

Adgitize indicated earlier this summer that they were going to implement a few changes in the blog guidelines that could result in your blog being pulled as a publisher for not meeting the requirements.  The premise is they are paying publishers to blog so they want quality blogs.  They don't want blogs without original or inconsistent content.  On August 15, 2010 Ken Brown clarified some to the criteria they will be looking for as they go through the blogs in their system.  Those blogs not meeting the criteria will be suspended but the authour will be notified and given the opportunity to correct the problems or argue their case. 

I don't think I will have a problem with my blogs meeting Adgitize's criteria but still I worry.  Quite clearly on one of my blogs I participate in Wordless Wednesday that by definition is wordless.  Those posts consist of a picture I took with a caption and date the image was taken so while it is original work with my © on the image there is no description other than the caption.  On my cooking blog I run one weekly feature called Kitchen Quick Tips where it is a graphic I made that is used for all of the KQT posts followed by a short one or two sentence tip.  Both of these fall under the "Not Enough Content - Images or videos plus one line sentences or no sentences."¹   I'm hoping that the Adgitize team will be reasonable with these types of post especially since my readers when polled love KQTs and Wordless Wednesday is part a particular community of bloggers!  Another concern I have is I do use YouTube videos from time to time but never just the video itself.  I always include some type of commentary so I'm hoping those kind of posts won't be a problem.  In the meantime I will keep on blogging while worrying :(

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