Wow Blogger Deemed All My Hard Work Spam

Tiff,

Did you contact Google about this? Believe it or not, they sometimes listen.

One of the many dangers or "annoying" advantages of using free services.

it's quite a pity but I'm glad you learned a lesson from it.

Google has changed many things these days, believe me.

Is your domain new? I think they prevent new domains
with good backlinks in their search results.

What I always did is let Google index it first by pinging
and bookmarking using just onlywire and pingomatic
then after that is the linking to other sites for link juice.

If it is an old domain they might have new server and
it might be your domain was not there or not crawled yet.
Check their servers if in all servers your domain is not
included.

If you can PM me the domain, I will investigate what
cause this.

Ross

Were you logging in regularly?

Years ago I used Blogger and their bot flagged my blog as spam. The next time I logged in, I was told to click a link to within a short time period (maybe 10 days?) so that a human reviewer could look at it. I clicked the link, the human took a peek, and all was fine.

However, the blog would have disappeared if I hadn't clicked the link within the set time period. And they didn't send me an email about it (or at least I didn't get it), so mainly they relied on Bloggers logging back in.

I don't know if things have changed as this was several years ago, but that's one possibility.

Cheers,
Becky

Ahhh too bad. Yeah ... probably not a good idea to put anything you value on Blogger or any other free platform.

Greg, I think I'm just gonna move all my content to my own domain. No more worries that way. I read the TOS and it states that you can't create a blog with the intention of driving traffic to your own domain. And that, of course, was the goal I had learned in the course. lol

Becky, yes I was posting daily. All was going well. Or so I thought. lol

Marian - can you please explain how to do this? Many of my subscribers asked me about how to do this and I still have a few Blogger blogs I'd like to do it for as well.

This is not based on fact, but is a theory...

I'm guessing you only linked to your own domain, and did not link to other sites. This would show the immediate intent to only drive traffic to your own domain.

If you were linking to news items, YouTube Videos, and other blogs, I'd guess this would not have happened.

Oh man, Tiffany...what a letdown! I'm sorry this happened to you.

Too right! I believe if you post on Blogger blogs and link to ANYTHING before you are indexed and seen as legit they will blacklist your site automatically. It could be their fight to get rid of the many Spam blogs that pop up every minute.

I'm curious, why wouldn't you publish all this hard work on your own domain? It's not that you couldn't afford it?

Monika

Hmmm, If they are going to blacklist you for having links, then why are they and Amazon promoting doing Amazon Affiliate marketing through Blogger sites.

I think someone screwed up.

Really sorry this happened, things will get better
I agree, Google changed many stuff.

This is such a bummer for Tiff, one of the absolute straightest shooters out there. So what it says to me is that Blogger is no longer "safe," even if they've got this great new relationship with Amazon Associates to make themselves seem more marketer friendly.

Chock up another black mark for Google. Ain't it fun working for them? LOL

Hey Tifanny,

I am very sorry of what happend to you.
Doing a lot of hard work and after everything gets erased for no reason,this is simple not faire.
You should contact Google,maybe they have an explanation of this.
My advice is to get some money and get yourself a domain and a hosting.Never trust free platforms or always make a backup with them.

Regards

Tony Shui

The technique you were using at Blogger should work perfectly fine with your own domain.

...With one big exception....

You can now put whatever you want on your site and test ad placement like crazy. You can even grab leads via optin.

Lost 2 myself this week, no link backs to site yet.

Here is the nav bar removal code.


Blogger's navbar is the navigation bar that appears on top of all blogger powered blogs. Most of the new bloggers try to remove this bar as soon as they create their blog as the bar makes a blog look less professional.

Secondly, when a visitor on your blog clicks "next blog" on the navbar, he'll be redirect to some new blog on the same window making your blog disappear from the view.

To remove or hide the blogger navbar from the top, follow the steps:

1. Go to your Layout of your blogger account.
2. Then in "Edit HTML" tab.
3. Find (Ctrl+F)

]]></b:skin>

and just above the tag, place this code:

#navbar-iframe { display: none !important;}



4. Click "Save Template" to apply and save the change.



View your blog, with no navbar on the top


Picked this up from whats his name in the forum.........crap I forget.....But not mine. Works though most times.

Tiff I commented on your blog about this earlier. It's a shame that Google are throwing decent blogs out and I agree that you should ask them to reconsider.

I suppose its another example where the work of the black-hatters affects the rest of us.

Interestingly this weeks Super Affiliate Challenge homework is to build a Blogger blog and write a revew that links to our affiliate sales page. Needless to say I'm writing that review on my own hosted wordpress blog instead!

Well it's about time we caught you.

After years and years of nothing but decent hard working honesty, integrity, and helping folks through this marketing maze, we see what you were really up to.

Your master plan all along was to find a way, come hell or high water, to abuse Blogger

Yeah, good ol' What's His Name has helped me almost as much as What's Her Face.

Sorry to hear 'bout that Tiff.

Couldn't have happened to a nicer person.

It's my belief that if you follow the link for human review Google then knows this is a blog someone is actually looking after and not some bot created piece of rubbish.

In which case they should reinstate you just my belief okay perhaps my best guess

I got the gmail account disabled thing along with my blogger email - had to give them my mobile # so they could text me and i could give the confirmation # to get my gmail back.

Willie Crawford had this happen. He had a neat blog set up about toenail fungus. I had never heard of it before but about a dozen articles there were so interesting I read them all. I have been interested in it ever since. He mentioned it in his forum as an example about a tiny little niche that could make money.

Went back a couple of months later and it was gone. Checked at his forum to see what had happened and it had been deleted.

Fortunately he could afford his own domain too, so guess it turned out all right.

What a shame! I suppose everyone can learn from this, although that doesn't help you! Never mind, onward and upward!

Google cache is only showing me one page - here's the url of the blogger blog: http://beardeddragontips.blogspot.com/ I could find one page that worked. The others, when I click cache, don't work.

isn't 3stepads one she owns dita?

I'm just gonna fork over the $0.89 at Godaddy for the dot info domains and get to blogging

I'm going to have to call BS on that. Maybe it was disabled where you have to login to your account and request a review but not "whole thing gone". The only way that would happen would be if you didn't respond to an email sent to the address you signed up with after 10 days had gone by. Of course, a lot of people sign up with throw-away emails and when something happens because they ignore their emails they blame Blogger.

you said it! and you are right, they don't warn you... it is just gone

this has happened to me twice now ... one was restored but it took a long time ... one I am trying to get restored now

sorry you are going through it too

I've been warned before....had to email them back to prove it wasn't a bot generated blog. ...then everything was OK...still I think these 'free' sites are risky long term. I have about 30 blogger blogs but I can't assume any will be there forever.
_____
Bruce

Here is a copy/paste from a blog that tells you how to remove the navbar, but also how to get rid of the gap created at the top in some themes:


After hiding the Nav Bar in Blogger using Classic Template, there tends to be a gap that replaces the navigation bar. The gap may be white, red, green, blue, or black in color, depends on what is your background color. To remove the gap, find the following code (normally near the top of the HTML):
body {

Add in the following like of code after the body tag:

position: relative;
top: -32px;

Click on SAVE TEMPLATE CHANGES button when done.

I read up on a lot of it and there are the three tiers - warning, but nothing done; warning with lock; deletion - no warning.

If the hide navbar code above and the one linked to doesn't work, this is what I use and it does work.


Just place it in the css section of the html

You may also want to drop these in the head section if you want targeted adsense to show.

I would assume...

an experienced marketer of your caliber...

would have known to not put so much time
and effort into something like a free blogger
blog...

Just goes to show that all of us, no matter
how experienced, continue to make mistakes.

Lesson Learned