Blogger Blogs Banned From Search Engines?
Blogger.com is the reason blogging exploded in the past few years. A tech novice with little more than a desire to rant can sign up for an account, create a blog and start blogging in five minutes or less, literally.
The quickness and ease of use makes the platform a target for anonymous types up to no good or others trying to game the system by setting up automated blogs that are nothing more than spam sites. It’s only a matter of time, I predict, that search engines will begin excluding Blogger blogs.
This may not seem serious to non-bloggers, but it’s very important to legitimate businesses shelling out money to optimize their blogs for search engines. Unscrupulous blog-spam practices are becoming so widespread that Google, Yahoo!, and the other search engines will have little choice but to exclude certain domains ripe for exploitation, and “blogspot.com” will likely be the first to go. The good must suffer with the bad, as my mother used to say.
(Hat tip: Blogspotting)
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August 18th, 2005 at 1:29 pm
So what should those of us who have blogger sites do? Switch to another domain? That seems daunting.
I did receive my first spam comment today. I just deleted it. How do you handle spam comments?
Thanks for the info.
August 18th, 2005 at 2:12 pm
Not daunting at all, Linda. Send me an e-mail.
Re: spam - Most blog platforms have spam-fighting features built in, and there are a number of third party applications available. I don’t know what Blogger has/does, but I’ll look into it for you.
August 18th, 2005 at 10:55 pm
Thanks, La Shawn. I appreciate any info. you can give me about blogger. I like the look of my site and it’s easy to use. The only problem I’ve had was the spam issue. I’ll e-mail you to talk about possibilities other than blogger. Thanks again for your help.
August 19th, 2005 at 5:20 pm
Some of the military’s web proxies already filter out all access to blogspot and typepad domains. Makes lunch-time reading a bit limited.
August 21st, 2005 at 12:16 pm
If blogspot becomes excluded from search results, than I may finally go ahead and switch to my own site. As it stands, my blogs are all hosted on blogspot. I make 12 dollars an hours, and it’s free. So naturally, it makes sense. Just recently though, I went ahead and registered two regular domains, and when they’re set up, the short addresses will be redirected to their preexisting blogspot counterparts. In the furure though, there is no doubt that I’ll make th switch completely, once I start making more money (probably after college).