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Akismet always detects my goarticles article as spam

by havefunandlive
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I'm trying to do some backlinking for my article on goarticles by doing some blog commenting, but whenever I try to leave my article as my url, it gets picked up by Akismet and therefore, never appears.

I've been using bit.ly to get around that, but it's been 4 days since I left the comments with the bit.ly redirect and they still haven't shown up. (blog backlinks usually take 3 days at most to start appearing. In my experience anyway).

In fact, someone else made a comment after me, about 2 days ago on one of the blogs I commented. So I checked their backlinks and they've already been credited.

Should I continue to use bit.ly? I heard that they use 301 redirects so the backlink should have been credited to my article. That's why I used it.

If bit.ly was the wrong choice, how do I get around akismet so I can get back to work on backlinking and have them actually appear?

EDIT: is domain forwarding to my article a good idea? Would I be credited that way?
#akismet #article #detects #goarticles #spam
  • Profile picture of the author havefunandlive
    This is a big problem! I just discovered that my bit.ly url is getting the credit for my backlinks!

    So I guess using any redirect is out of the question.

    But I still can't use my direct goarticles url without being falsely detected as spam.
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    • Profile picture of the author shirland
      Originally Posted by havefunandlive View Post

      This is a big problem! I just discovered that my bit.ly url is getting the credit for my backlinks!

      So I guess using any redirect is out of the question.

      But I still can't use my direct goarticles url without being falsely detected as spam.
      That is good to because I am also using bitly for my comments on blogs. I will have to shorten the title of my blog post thereby shortening the url.
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      • Profile picture of the author havefunandlive
        Originally Posted by shirland View Post

        That is good to because I am also using bitly for my comments on blogs. I will have to shorten the title of my blog post thereby shortening the url.
        I'm glad I could help.

        But I'm still in a terrible predicament, though, heheh.
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  • Profile picture of the author havefunandlive
    Originally Posted by quantikev View Post

    You're saying a comment you make on your blog with your article URL is blocked by askimet?
    Yes. Consistently.
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  • Profile picture of the author havefunandlive
    Originally Posted by quantikev View Post

    For some reason askimet is thinking it's spam - perhaps someone has been spoofing your domain?
    Ah, I didn't see this part.

    It's not on my own domain. It's on goarticles' domain.

    It seems the only real course of action I can think of right now is to repost the article on squidoo, but I liked goarticles ability to rank on google searches easily...
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  • Profile picture of the author havefunandlive
    Originally Posted by quantikev View Post

    It's difficult to say. The simplest solution I can think of is to try one of the other article directories. Honestly with a few backlinks they all can rank fairly well, though some have better internal linking than others. Try ezinearticles or articlesbase, for instance.
    I guess that makes sense.

    Squidoo has the highest amount of domain backlinks, the highest PR, and doesn't require approval, so I think I'll give that a shot.

    Thanks for your help.
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