An unexpected frustration!

The other day I read a few articles on how to share my blog with social media and hopefully attract some attention.

Instagram, no problem.  I made an Instagram just for posting things from my closet separate from my personal one.  I did not want to mix the two.  I doubt my friends and family would appreciate all my posts about items in my closet. I do not post often but when I create something on Canva, it's easy to share on Instagram.

The problem was Pinterest.  Yes, Pinterest.  The never in the news, never controversial Pinterest.

I've had a Pinterest account forever.  Before AI and all the many sites on the internet to help teachers, I used Pinterest for finding ideas for bulletin boards, saving my favorite pictures, and dreaming about living in the South of France, Provence to be exact.

One article suggested making an ad for my blog and posting it on Pinterest.  I first explored what was already on Pinterest to see what other people had done.  Then, I went to my trusty Canva site and created an ad.  

I posted it to Instagram and Pinterest.

 Later that day, I received an email that my Pinterest account had been deactivated because I had violated the Community Guidelines.  I am one who likes to do good things.  I am not a bad person and when I get called out on something, I feel awful, like a criminal.  I feel like my dog, Nipper, does when she knows she's in trouble.

I had no idea what I did and still have not received a full explanation.  I am not even sure my ad caused the issue.  All they told me was that I may have been flagged for spam and directed me to read the review on my account.

Funny thing, when your account is deactivated, you cannot get into it to read the review!  Great system!

I emailed not once, not twice, not even three times!  The fourth time was the charm in this case.  I asked every time for an explanation about what happened so I would not repeat the same thing.

They did finally reactivate my account.  I immediately went in to read the report.  All I found in the review was:

Status:  Reactivated

Reason:  Spam

That was it.  Nothing else.  No report.  No explanation.

So, I read the Community Guidelines section on Spam.  Best I can figure is that Google Blogspot is not an approved partner and since I included the link, maybe that triggered it to flag as spam.

So, now what?  If I post again, will they deactivate my account again? Since they have not explained why other than to say "spam", I am very hesitant to post any other ads about my blog.

Here's a kicker.  This post about sourcing had more traffic than any other!!!

Man, sometimes you just can't get a win!  Maybe the traffic came from Instagram!

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