Fuming and Confused

[lotusch]

Hey guys,

As I was working on my first ever affiliating website I all of a sudden was suspended without any prior notice.
I am doing it via Wordpress.com and paid for hosting and a domain name.

Had about 8 hours of work in it so far and they just took it offline.
Also I was not able to use the chat facility anymore (a premium facility), could only send in a stupid online email me back form.
I bloody paid for a full year upfront!!!!!

I get a notification that my site has been archived or suspended due to violations of their t&c's.
Whatever that might have been remains an answer because I still did not get an answer back to my support ticket I opened.

I had placed several banners from several casino's and wrote a few casino reviews.
Made some sub pages and wrote some content on those.
Was in the process of adding slots tracker & casinomeister into my feeds.

I mean,I have seriously no clue why I got suspended.

Anyone else bad experiences with the .com version of WP?

At this point they are big f*cking assholes.

Now it remains to be seen if I can get my content back because otherwise it is 8 hours of work down the drain!

Not the best way to get introduced in the world of WP.

 

[rainmaker]

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I do not think Wordpress.com allows advertising.

According to their T&C, advertising isn’t permitted unless you use WordAds or have a WordPress.com VIP or Enterprise site.

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What you might want to do is to use Wordpress.org and host your own site.

 

[Nicola]

I had no problems with the Wordpress.com enterprise - I brought a domain and a years hosting up front last June. Doesn't seem to be anything wrong with promoting gambling on their infrustructure as long as you display the site is for 18+ only.

Have since left Wordpress as I decided to do it alone on a dedicated server as I could use more resources and have more control.

 

[Simmo!]

To be clear, separate "Wordpress" the product from "Wordpress" the hosting platform. If you take the product and install it on your own server/domain somwhere you can do what you want (as long as your ISP who hosts it allows it in their T&Cs) but the Wordpress hosting platform has always been very strict and gambling was never allowed if I remember right.

I'd suggest buying a shared hosting account at somewhere like Hostgator (there are lots of companies offer this) who install Wordpress for you. It can be relatively inexpensive but always check their T&C's first to check gambling is allowed. This will also give you more flexibility (assuming you have your own domain name) for doing SEO and stuff.

 

[lotusch]

Ah ok well I was not known with the fact I could not start my affiliating website with the .com version.
Hilarious too as shortly before that I was chatting with one of their reps as I had a query about some HTML coding.
He looked at my site and helped me out. Could he not have told me I was not allowed to make an affiliating website?
He probably got me suspended now I think of it,the friggin' cunt.

I was so happy and felt a bit proud of what I already had achieved.

As I am very newb in this world I have no clue what to do now.
I will cancel my subscription with the WP.com crowd and will see if I can move my domainname somewhere else and use the .org version of WP.

Thanks for your replies guys!

 

[lotusch]

There we go.
As you guys already said!

I will try and move my stuff over.

Cheers.

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[Webzcas]

Dunover had the same problem when he started his site also on wordpress.com. If you want free hosting no strings attached, send me a pm and I'll set you up with a hosting account on my server.