Don't Back Down

So after finally getting my submission, well, submitted, to become a member of the iTunes affiliate network, I was rejected. Huh. They sent a form letter, saying it's one (or more, potentially) of these reasons: Content unrelated to iTunes, site is down, wrong URL, an aestehtically unpleasing site, promotes tobacco, alcoholic beverages or excessive drinking/drug use, extreme religious content or the site is international and/or written in a foreign language.

Interesting. The content is pretty well unrelated, as I don't talk about songs much. Or even music. But good grief - I just posted an entry on music last week. Not only does iTunes carry Alice Cooper, they actually have the full Welcome to my Nightmare CD available. So that's probably not it.

Site is down? While it may have been down for a few minutes here or there, it hasn't been down for any length of time. I sit in front of the computer every day. At least some of that time, I'm playing with the site or a plugin or something. If it was down, I'd generally know. Highly unlikely.

Maybe I gave them the wrong URL. Possible. I type the thing thirty times a day - I think I'm pretty good at it. But I do type quickly sometimes and letters end up where they aren't supposed to be. So far, this sounds like the most likely option.

Aesthetically unpleasing? Maybe so. But are you telling me that every single site that ever applies gets viewed by someone to see if it looks nice? I find that difficult to believe. Except for this one, every other item can be handled with a bot of some sort. If code exists to determine what's ugly and what's not, I'm in trouble. As if worrying about funkiness weren't bad enough.

I don't believe that I've ever mentioned anything to do with alcohol, tobacco or drugs (except perhaps someone doing something stupid because of them). I think I mentioned once that I was a Christian. Perhaps that is extreme religious content? And while certain countries may view the site as being international in nature, or written in a different language, I wouldn't suspect Apple would have that thought.

Guess it just wasn't meant to be. Oh well. Looks like Amazon gets the traffic instead.