Yesterday i tried to clear 5 Basic Misconceptions Of WordPress Users About Blogger.
There was one major miss conception that i wanted to clear out then,
but it required much detail to be discussed. So will Blogger really
delete your blog for no reason?
To summarize, NO!
Have you ever thought about the position Google or Blogger in specific
is enjoying online? Folks at Google (Blogger) had always tried their
best to make the online experience better than before. After all they
are here for business right? And its in 'their' interest to follow the
what they are doing. (i.e to build a spam free online environment).
Who complains?
Google (Blogger) have set some guild lines and terms of service. So any Blogger blog, that doesn't follow the set rules, often gets suspended or worst deleted. Its just obvious. We all agree to the terms and conditions before setting out our blogs. Thats in fact the biggest lie we could ever make. Have we ever read those working conditions? We should.
Note that Blogger doesn't entertain any personnel grudge against a particular webmaster. Its not how the internet giants work. Straight, there are rules, and the one who doesnt follow
them gets penalized. Easy?
So whats against their policy?
This is mandatory to know as we would not want our years of hard work going out in vain. To quote a Blogger engineer:it's worth describing a few examples of what Blogger regularly removes, as part of its zero tolerance policy to abusive / inappropriate content:
- Affiliate marketing.
- Content created with scripts and programs, rather than by hand.
- Content or links referencing referral-based activities such as GPT, MMH ("Make Money from Home"), MMF ("Make Money Fast"), MLM ("Multi-Level Marketing"), PTC, or PTS.
- Content scraped from other blogs / websites.
- Copyright Infringement.
- Large blogs with multiple, unfocused / unrelated subjects.
- Links to Illegal Downloads / Streaming / Torrents.
There are literally millions of Blogger blogs out there. Search out for Blogger blogs today, it gave 595,000,000 search results. Thats the number Blogger has to deal with. They have set up an algorithm that automatically suspends out the blogs that doesn't abide by the said polices above.
Though the good part of the story is, that you get the chance to appeal. They don't want you to get demoralized. All they strive for is to ensure a better online experience where there are minimal blogs with viruses, marlwares, copied content etc.
You are not singled out
As
i mentioned before, Google is working hard to make blogging experience
spam free. For that, there is a possibility that your blog (that do
abides by the TOS) get into
the trap. And that's what the appealing procedure is all about. Ill
make a detailed post tomorrow explaining how exactly can you bring your
blog back (restoration), but only if your blog abides by the working
laws.Here are few explaintions from Blogger that suggests that you're singled out.
- Get To The Root Of The Problem - Blame The Spammers
- The Attack Of The Clones
- Coyotes, Hyenas, And Turkeys
Peace.