Just that you know:

“When submitted stories are consistently reported as spam and users complain via our feedback email about submission spam, we ban the domain. The domain will not be unbanned.”

This is the answer digg gives to any Webmaster that tries to get his/her domain unbanned. In my opinion, (please note the sarcasm of the tone from now on) is very nice and thoughtful of digg. So they can un-ban a domain, but they choose not to. Very friendly, honest and ethic approach, don’t you think?

Now out of sarcasm, and back to the normal tone.

It seems like digg users don’t like SEO blogs anymore. It feels – and it’s sadly true and happening – like some dig users united against SEO blogs and are doing anything in their power to get these sites banned. Something I feared since the beginning of the social bookmarking era is happening already, sooner that I expected.

So as long as you let the decision to the human users they are able to abuse a system and harm even legitimate sites, very useful and informative. Lee Odden’s site was banned, forevergeek.com as well – but it got unbanned out of the blue (so digg does perform wonders, oh joy!), the DP (digital point) forum is banned, and the SEO News Blog as well.

Word is that digg is corrupted – of we are to believe the banned and unbanned forever geeks. And I tend to believe them because the blogosphere burns with such news. You can also read a good article about how digg bans SEO blogs and see a list of banned sites. Here you can read Lee Odden’s post about “The Hypocrisy of Digg and Spam”. And if you want more, follow the links in the blogs above.

Now, if digg has something against the SEO community this “self defense” chain reaction is natural. eWritings was not banned from digg yet, but my other SEO blog was. Yet this didn’t bother me at the time, it just made me wonder which one of my competitors played such a trick on me. Now I know it was not a competitor, but a bunch of frustrated digg users. It doesn’t really matter. I’ll stop using digg, till they’ll fix the abuse problems. And I suggest you do the same, if you have a SEO blog.