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Add another site to the list of URLs banned by Digg? What site is that you ask? None other thanmy own blog, lithman.net. That’s right. This very blog was banned by Digg and marked as spam for the rest of it’s existence. I was going to submit yesterday’s post about the Website Profit/Loss spreadsheet because I knew it would be useful for a lot of webmasters. That’s when I found the bad news.

There’s really nothing you can do about it. I’ve had a couple people tell me to email them and find out what’s going on. They want me to ask why I was banned. But in my experience, and other’s experience, it won’t get you very far. An email would only generate a generic auto response from Digg saying ‘your site was marked as spam. the end’.

I think it’s funny that I was banned by Digg. The thing is, I’ve only submitted 1 article to digg. And that was 5 months ago when I wrote an article about the Evolution of Yahoo. Surely that article isn’t considered spam?

Maybe someone was out to get me and was secretly submitting all my posts to Digg? Nah… couldn’t happen. I probably would have found out about it from all the incoming Digg links.

So that’s that I guess. I can’t submit anymore of my blog posts to Digg. I wonder if my IP is banned as well? I’m not sure if it will be because back when I made the Evolution of Yahoo post, this blog was hosted on a different server with a different IP.

If I hear of anything else, I’ll let you know.