This guest post is by Rick of www.morebettersmarts.com.
Filtering software may be blocking your blog from being accessed on government computers.
When I first put my blog online, I discovered that my friends on the local military base were prevented from viewing it by the government's filtering service, Blue Coat.
As none of my posts contained any questionable content, I was interested to find out why my blog was blocked. More importantly, as there are literally millions of federal workers worldwide, I wanted to ensure blog was seen by this audience.
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Also note the information provided isn't a way to circumvent the filtering service. The method used is perfectly legal, and I worked through Blue Coat to get it resolved.
The problem
When my friends on the military base attempted to access my blog, a very official-looking page popped up with the heading, "ACCESS DENIED." Further down the page explained that my site was blocked as its “Webfilter Category” was classified as “Blogs/Personal Pages.”
The page also included specific information about contacting the Blue Coat Webpage Review Site if there were any problems. That link is: http://sitereview.bluecoat.com/sitereview.jsp
Clicking the link took me to a simple form that allowed me to enter my URL to see how my blog was categorized. I entered my site name, and clicked Check Rating. Sure enough, my site was classified as Blogs/Personal Pages, and was thus blocked by the DoD computers.
The fix
In addition to seeing your site's category, the review page also provides a form that you can use to...
