There is a saying in Malay that goes, “Jatuh Ditimpa Tangga”. I think it means bad things happen when you are already in a troubled situation.
I can’t help but to feel how true this is. When I started blogging, I was smacked by some things that I wrote. I was already very troubled. I tried asking for advice and help around. As if I was not having enough trouble already, some [noun] started a controversy using my nick.
Yesterday, I got two of my PPP posts rejected due to some things (I believe) are not even written in their TOS. That troubled me a little but as if it wasn’t bad enough, my technology blog got smacked by the Big G. I am a little surprised but I know that I shouldn’t.
There will be some changes and mass edit of some of my posts in the coming days. One thing that is bound to change is the disclosure policy. I suspect some/most bloggers that got smacked by the Big G is due to the way they disclose their sponsored posts. I can’t be sure but something has to be changed.
Some extra “icing” for my situation — I received yet another junk SMS. KNS! That post will come up later. I am extremely tired now. I only slept for like two hours last night.
I haven’t replied to some comments in both my blogs. I am sorry. I will reply them when I wake up later and feel more refreshed. *sigh*
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Same here! A few of my blogs just messed up. Wiped out totally and my back-up available is a day’s old. And it has to happened on a day when I had written big money opps.
Re the rejection, there is some discussion going on at PPP forum about Kontera appearing in the interim posts. So far, I have no problem cos my Kontera ads are on blogs that I don’t use for PPP.
hey..apparently not only kontera. The ’snap’ (small version of a website appears when u hover over the link) is also part of it. I had to take it out.
i understand how u feel, same happen to me but not about blogging. but once all bad things over, the good things will come. i got the games job already
haha my blogger blog also kena demoted by one rank. Yaushu betul.
@lilian aka 5xmom
I read through the forums a lot today. I find their act not too pleasing. To say the least, they are controlling us. It is almost like a “either them or us” attitude. They should not control what we write or put in our interims, as long as we are not paid and requested to write about it.
@mott
The snap within a sponsored post or interim post? If sponsored post nevermind. If interim post, I think they have gone too far with that.
@lazyfellow
And I hope my “good” will come soon. Congrats on the new job!
@anthraxxxx
Many blogs kena. Some even -3.
This wan I believed! Bad luck always cum in one big group! How cum good luck not like this wan arrr??? Anyway me no problem with PPP as they reject my application. Just curious PPP can earn at lot??? Hope ur luck will turn from bad to good!
Have a nice day!
was just wondering whether is this the way PPP tightening on the blogger earnings? or perhaps one day they will charge blogger to pay for membership fees in order to earn $?
Heh some of my posts were rejected because they accused of me shifting the timestamp a day later than the submission date where they seem to forget there are 12 hours difference between USA and Malaysia.
@HORNY ANG MOH
Thanks! And yes, you can earn quite a lot from PPP.
@lazyfellow
I have no idea. I don’t think they’ll do that. Just that I don’t think it is fair for them to control what we do to the rest of our blog. They can control our paid posts but not the rest. There is a rule that says our blogs shouldn’t be filled with too many ads. But it didn’t say cannot place ads within normal posts.
@anthraxxxx
Hmmm…could be. But I think the blog’s time is automatically set to the reader’s timezone. Not sure though. Time shifting not necessary different date. Sometimes, even if you change the time of the post earlier/later by an hour or less is still considered time shifting. At least that is what I think.
Thing is, i didn’t shift the time at all. I just write, publish, then submit. I went to check the date the post was submitted. I wrote my post at Oct 1 around 12 AM something and the post submitted list recorded it as 30th of September. I have other posts approved of similar fashion (many of my posts are a day later than the US submission since I always started to write after 12 am) and this is the first time I got rejected for time shifting.
@anthraxxxx
I see. If that is the case, I guess the reviewer could have made a mistake or something. Just resubmit and send in a ticket. Hopefully they’ll clear your post.
Haha congrats, you got PR4 for this blog already.
@anthraxxxx
hehe. Yup yup. I guess this is what my bro said about “good things will come”. I don’t dare to blog about it yet though. I scared if it gets updated again and it drops or something. *sigh* I really hope not lah.