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\nThose of you who use rewardStyle<\/strong> may have noticed your links not working on Pinterest last week — don't worry, you weren't alone. Last week, Pinterest, an online hub for bloggers and inspiration, decided to ban all link shorteners, including rewardStyle links, without notice. On Friday night, however, rewardStyle affiliate links were again approved for use, however other shorteners are still marked as “spam” by Pinterest administrators.<\/p>\n

According to rewardStyle account consultant Mary Summers, “Pinterest decided to blacklist all link shorteners (bit.ly, rstyle.me) last week. They did not make a public announcement or give warning of this decision. Late Friday night rStyle.me links were added back to the approved list so your links are working normally and no past work is effected.”<\/p>\n

Pinterest released an official statement to us, “We're always working to prevent spam and it's possible that some\u00a0redirects may have been impacted last week as part of that effort.\u00a0Most legitimate redirects should be working again. Services that feel\u00a0they have been blocked improperly, can always let us know [on our terms and services page]\u00a0here.”<\/p>\n

While Pinterest claims they are only trying to prevent spam, we wonder if Pinterest founder, Ben Silbermann,\u00a0does not want the virtual pinboard to become a marketplace for brands.<\/p>\n

As of now, rewardStyle links have all been fixed, but other redirect shortened links, including Bit.ly, are still on the ban list.\u00a0So, how does rewardStyle's links qualify as “legitimate”\u00a0and other redirects such as Bit.ly are susceptible to be marked as spam?\u00a0According to a Pinterest spokesperson, “…our current efforts are\u00a0focused on blocking redirects that may be abused by spammers and we\u00a0manually review cases to identify redirects that consistently point to\u00a0safe content. Of course, we are constantly evolving these and other\u00a0policies and practices as the community and our service grow.”<\/p>\n

Previously, spam was marked by Pinterest users to alert administrators.<\/p>\n

Recently, Pinterest, which began development in December of \u00a02009 and has blown up as one of most popular forms of social media, has been getting in some hot water with copyrighted content. In the past few months they've\u00a0added permanent citations to posts from places such as Flickr, YouTube, Behance, Vimeo, and most recently 500px, Etsy, Kickstarter, Slideshare and SoundCloud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Those of you who use rewardStyle may have noticed your links not working on Pinterest last week — don’t worry, you weren’t alone. 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