Is Newsvine The Next SEO Hater?
It appears the trusted news website Newsvine is now eliminating accounts without any warning. They appear to be following suit of other popular news and media sites like Digg and Squidoo, where SEOs and online marketers are not shown much love. News releases I posted across multiple accounts for my online marketing clients were completely cut away from the news vine.
Yes, I am aware of the Newsvine Code of Honor, and may have had borderline infringement on code #3, but an e-mail warning or message from a community member would have been well received on my end.
Not to give you a bunch of sour grapes, but if it’s editorial integrity that Newsvine is concerned with, then check out this outstanding article from the Newsvine homepage today - Yes Jenna Bush Is Pregnant…by an Alien… - some very substantial discussion.
A few questions for readers of this post:
Have you been banned from Newsvine as well?
If so, what type of content did you post to your Newsvine account?
If so, did you receive any type of notification from Newsvine to warn you about your account?
(On Aug 21st, 2007 at 5:27 pm)
Just to clear a few things up:
- We’ve been removing content and accounts that violate our User Agreement, from Day One.
- The fact that you openly admit to running multiple accounts to seed links for SEO purposes is, quite plainly, a gross violation of our TOS - and you (and others who do this) *should expect* your accounts to be removed without prior warning as a result.
Newsvine does not welcome - and never has - those who use our system for the purpose of promoting sites they own or are affiliated with, for SEO reasons or otherwise. This is stated very clearly in the Newsvine Code of Honor, as well as our User Agreement.
You are welcome to re-register and to utilize Newsvine for its intended purposes.
Regards,
Calvin Tang
Founder, Newsvine