Unfortunately ‘Free’ in a URL has become one of ‘those things’ on the Internet. Several affiliate programs these days won’t allow you to participate if you have ‘free’ in your URL. I think marketing people overused it a lot around 2003-04. I don’t think it will hurt your site too much though.

I’ll put your blog on my list for a review.

Yes the ‘free’ bit does make it sound spammy doesn’t it! If you know where to look the free things on the internet can be high quality. It can just take a long time to find them sometimes - which was the idea behind my blog.

I think it was probably the free bit that helped get me more traffic than average. I don’t think any of them signed up for my RSS feed though so they were probably not the best “quality” of visitor.

I would love to have a free review if that is okay (shall I fill in the form or is this message okay?). This blog looks interesting too, I was very surprised to see how new it is! I’m looking forward to seeing more posts on the various areas of blogging from you.

Akismet didn’t like your link for some reason so I had to pull your comment out of their garbage bin. I guess since part of your site has marketing offer landing pages is why they flagged you.

Nice job putting together the list of articles though. It’s always a good idea to provide something free that has real value as a lead in for an offer.

… And if you’re looking for a minute-by-minute list of BlogRush opinions, you might be interested in my “BlogRush” mashup… headlines from all around the Internet about whether or not BlogRush is worth installing on your blog.

The opinions about John Reese and BlogRush might surprise you.

Check it out at: http://www.marketing-ideas.org/BlogRush-Opinions.php

I’d guess that you got rejected because of the sidebar widgets you’re running. That shouldn’t be a problem but it slows page loading and when a ‘bot or trained monkey is trying to do their 2 second evaluation of your site they’ll hit “REJECT” and move on before the page completely loads.

Sorry about the moderation delay but that’s the way I avoid comment spammers.

I would guess the ‘reviewers’, human or bot, didn’t read any further than the word ‘FREE’ in your URL before clicking the reject button.

2% of your traffic is pretty good. On my accepted blog I got one click total after having it there about a month and that was it.

I like your site. It’s a different design from the usual Wordpress blogs and it is a great expression of your faith. Let me know if you would like for me to do a free review of it.

I love the way the reasons for being banned (sorry de-activated) is so broad there is no way you know why you were banned!

http://www.blog.freechristianresources.org/

I wasn’t doing too badly with blogrush either (compared to many)