when does inactive blogs are deleted in blogger, wordpress?

14 years ago

I don't think they are, at least not very quickly. I've purchased older expiring domains that had good existing links from WordPress.com and Blogger sites from at least as early as 2004 and that haven't been updated since 2006-2008.

Thanks

Signature

{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1658700].message }}

InternetMarketingIQ

14 years ago

Every third Sunday after the second full moon.

Housekeeping by the companies that run the sites could tell you, but what is their incentive?

Thanks
2 replies

Signature

Internet Marketing IQâ„¢

{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1658712].message }}

prouser02 14 years ago

Originally Posted by InternetMarketingIQ

Every third Sunday after the second full moon.

Housekeeping by the companies that run the sites could tell you, but what is their incentive?

Are you serious about "Every third Sunday after the second full moon."? Because I don't quite understand what you mean? So go ahead, explain.
- Thanks
- 1 reply
{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1660247].message }}
- Jonathan Ferraro 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by prouser02
  
  Are you serious about "Every third Sunday after the second full moon."? Because I don't quite understand what you mean? So go ahead, explain.
  
  I think he's being sarcastic. I can say from my own experience, when I was first starting out, I had a bunch of junky, ugly blogger sites, and they are still up and running several years later, so go figure.
  
  Thanks
  
  {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1660262].message }}

TerrieS

14 years ago

No, no - it's every second Sunday after the third full moon.

Originally Posted by InternetMarketingIQ

Every third Sunday after the second full moon.

Housekeeping by the companies that run the sites could tell you, but what is their incentive?

Thanks
2 replies

{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1660419].message }}

Elle Holder

14 years ago

I've got a blogspot that I haven't updated in a year and a half. It still has a PR4, still gets traffic, and Google still crawls it regularly.

As far as I know--at least for blogspot--the account is yours until you delete it. Unless of course, there is some TOS issue, then Google will delete it for you!

Thanks
1 reply

Signature

{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1660533].message }}

Glenn Leader

14 years ago

Originally Posted by ElleJ

I've got a blogspot that I haven't updated in a year and a half. It still has a PR4, still gets traffic, and Google still crawls it regularly.

As far as I know--at least for blogspot--the account is yours until you delete it. Unless of course, there is some TOS issue, then Google will delete it for you!

Clearly your blog offers great value, and you probably
have lots of good organic backlinks to it.. It's well
known that blogs that are just allowed to go without
occasional updates get deleted. It doesn't take much
work, probably 5 minutes a month will keep these blogs
alive. It's pretty much the same for WordPress blogs
too.

HTH

Glenn

[ 1 ] Thanks
1 reply

Signature

Do you own a PLR article business?

Click here NOW to discover how to discover how my Warrior Forum JV offer will help make more profits for your business AND add extra value

{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1661311].message }}

Elle Holder

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Glenn Leader

Clearly your blog offers great value, and you probably
have lots of good organic backlinks to it.. It's well
known that blogs that are just allowed to go without
occasional updates get deleted. It doesn't take much
work, probably 5 minutes a month will keep these blogs
alive. It's pretty much the same for WordPress blogs
too.
HTH
Glenn

Thanks for pointing this out.

I'd stopped posting to the blog because of some glitch with it. When I started the blog, it was before Google bought Blogger. I went through the scary change over from old Blogger to new Blogger that messed a lot of people up. But there was something that was never right again. Accessing the blog would hang my machine forever, and I found it was doing the same to my visitors. I finally just made a good bye, so long post, explained about the problems, and moved on. It was time to start buying my own domains, and I've been using wordpress.org ever since.

However, I do use it for back linking all my new sites to. I'm always rotating links there. So for that alone, maybe I should throw up a new post once in a while to keep it alive.

Thanks

Signature

{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1661596].message }}

prouser02 14 years ago

Originally Posted by TerrieS

No, no - it's every second Sunday after the third full moon.

oh, okay! Thanks for the clarification! I got all mixed up thinking which sunday: third or the 2nd. But, you no longer need to explain it to me!
- Thanks
{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1667359].message }}

Glenn Leader

14 years ago

It's very easy to maintain Blogger and WordPress
blogs, so why risk letting them go stagnant and
stale with the possibility of deletion? Even just
going in once every couple of months, making
one or two tiny edits, or a simple rewrite will do
the trick.

HTH

Glenn

Thanks

Signature

Do you own a PLR article business?

Click here NOW to discover how to discover how my Warrior Forum JV offer will help make more profits for your business AND add extra value

{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1661279].message }}

costos gohdohb

14 years ago

my inactive blogger blog is well and alive, too! - created over 1 year ago

but I was not so lucky with inactive wordpress blogs - they were closed rather quickly

Thanks

{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1661372].message }}

ingomkt

14 years ago

I setup a blogger blog in 2004 and haven't updated it or anything since 2005. The blog is still active and received traffic from Google every month.

Thanks
1 reply

{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1670758].message }}

sylviad 14 years ago

Just a wild guess... but I'd suspect that they don't want to go around deleting stale blogs because that would mean doing a complete scan to see how many sites are linked to them. It'd be like taking one link out of a chain - deleting one would affect so many other sites. That includes sites that have quoted something on that blog, links going back to it, continuation of content from one site to the next.

Like if you delete a post here, if someone else responded to it, that person's post wouldn't make sense.

The only way the blogs could be safely deleted is if they are relatively new, and even then there's no guarantee.

You can be sure that Google must get some benefit from people having a lot of blogger accounts.

Sylvia
- Thanks
Signature

:: Got a dog? Visit my blog. Dog Talk Weekly
:: Writing, Audio Transcription Services? - Award-winning Journalist is taking new projects. Warrior Discounts!
{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1671100].message }}

when does inactive blogs are deleted in blogger, wordpress?

Trending Topics

Google Ads, landing pages, and Clickbank links

Carry out better target audience research

Membership area with multiple income streams

YouTube gets shopping display tools and affiliate partnership updates

A Very Strange Internet Problem