This is an article I submitted for publication on Ezine Articles, and they rejected it, like they have done with almost 90% of the articles I’ve submitted over the years there.
It’s about why you should not buy Google Plus followers, and it was written after I had my Google Plus account suspended. I managed to get it back since then, but I was a little annoyed when I wrote this.
I’ve actually only submitted about ten articles on that site, so it’s more like 60% of the articles I’ve submitted there that they’ve rejected, but you get the point, it’s hard to get around the quality control, even with a high quality article like this:
So this is meant to be an explanation of why you should not buy Google Plus followers. I sell Google Plus followers, or that’s the keyword I go by when explaining my range of social media marketing services that I do for people, on that site.
Google Plus suspended my account, and did not give a reason, just referred me to the rules of content and conduct, and that was it, over a year’s hard work down the drain, with no comeback.
The rules of the site say that you cannot post a link to a site that sells or makes money from the sale of alcohol, firearms, tobacco, medical equiment, pharmecueticals, pornography, or anything they deem to be slightly unpleasant.
Basically, they can suspend anyone, for any reason, at any time they feel like it, and they don’t care one iota about your feelings on the subject.
That was all I could work out that I was doing wrong in the rules, which conveniently include that you aren’t allowed to do anything at all, or they’ll get rid of you just because they don’t like your face.
I definitely wasn’t spamming, or if I’m a spammer, then so is everyone on the site. I used sites that allowed you to promote your social profile to get followers, (that’s legal talk for buy or swap social followers), and that is allowed in the terms of service of those sites, and there is no legal case to try to prevent that.
I have no idea what I did wrong, if I knew, if it was something I could avoid next time, or fix now, I would do it, but they never even told me what it was, or gave me a chance to fix it.
Now, I am sick of being censored, being treated like a spammer, a criminal, a lower breed of human being that is not allowed to post and publish things online.
Google Plus Is A Waste Of Time
I’m not denying that it has some of the elements of Facebook and Twitter, but when you combine those two elements, you get your account suspended, unlike either of the other huge social media sites, which very rarely suspend you for anything.
I run a business, I have products and services to sell, but I am not a spam robot, nor am I trying to annoy or scam anybody, in any way.
I am sick of this idea of quality control extending to the point that I will probably not even get this article published on this site because I use the word “I” in it.
This is an utterly ridiculous state of affairs, where a person has their life dictated to them by the people upstairs running the online world, which is where most people live these days.
They aren’t even partially connected to the government, and they think they can tell us how to think, how to act, it’s like they have self-appointed themselves the high council on the proper putting together of words on the internet.
I’m not going to start swearing, I’m not going to start swearing. Don’t get the electric collar, I’ll be good, I promise!
After Having Time To Think About Google Plus
This is me writing some more today, a couple of weeks later, after getting my Google Plus account back.
It turned out that I had another account with the same name on Google Plus, and I deleted that one.
I haven’t had any more problems since then on the site, although I am still extremely wary of using it.
I wrote an article about how to add the Google Plus author tags, which may be something that Google decides to insist upon for higher rankings.
I don’t like that, but it may be important if you are claiming authorship to have a large amount of verified followers with photos. The best way to get these is through following people and hoping they follow you back.
I can do that for you if you are happy to give me the log in details of your Google Plus account, and I work fairly cheap. The other method is not so good, getting them from Add Me Fast and You Like Hits.
I would not recommend you use that, particularly with the importance that might be placed in coming years on your Google Plus account.
If you are interested in discussing me getting you some followers on Google Plus, Twitter followers, Facebook likes, social sharing, guest posts, video production, etc, send me a message, my email is in the sidebar.
