I just lost everything today

14 years ago

That is the problem with free domains and hosting. Sorry to hear that.

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John Durham 14 years ago

I have heard Alexa and many others say a million times that its important to own your own real estate. I guess this exemplifies that, still it REALLY sucks. Sorry to hear that, but congrats on making it work in the first place. You will do it again.

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That is the problem with free domains and hosting. Sorry to hear that.
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The Dotcom Hippie

14 years ago

Damn, that sucks. I hope you regroup and start working to get back to where you were straight away. While this is obviously a huge setback, at least you're not back to square one in terms of knowledge and ability.

And BTW, let as people as possible know about what happened, because I (and others) keep warning people starting out not to get too invested in Blogger with the kind of blogs that Google doesn't like, but of course I still get to the odd "oh, I know someone with lots of blogs there and they're fine" response.

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jlucado

14 years ago

tsk..tsk..tsk.

Sorry to hear that. But you do not own Blogger websites. They do.

Put your efforts into your own domains and hosting.

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DomenicoGrecojr 14 years ago

That must be very depressing. I'm very sorry to hear about that.

Do you have a backup? If not try and use Internet Archive: Free Movies, Music, Books & Wayback Machine
and see if you can copy and paste some of your posts to your
new blog.

It is essential that you host your own Wordpress blog so that your
content is safe.

Hope you have a speedy recovery!
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oneplusone 14 years ago

You should only use free blogs/websites for the short term, not for the long term it is too risky.

Even if you are using paid domains/hosting, you must ALWAYS diversify and use multiple hosting providers and domain registration services for your websites.

It amazes me how many IM veterans still make this mistake and buy all their domains at one place, as well as their hosting. Crazy.

If you diversify and one screws you over you are still in the game, however if you put all your eggs in one basket and you get screwed you lose everything.

Maybe you should see this as a blessing in disguise, it is better it happened to you early on rather than further down the road.
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KWASU

14 years ago

so sorry to hear that! what's next?

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KWASU

14 years ago

what happened and where did you go wrong?

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contactscape

14 years ago

If you've been maintaining a list of your prospects, which I hope you have, seeing as you had many blogs as you say, now would be the right time to send them a broadcast explaining the situation and that you're going to be sorting out new sites etc very soon.

Don't worry, nothing will become of it. Just get your own hosting, setup your own webspace as soon as possible and get your list subscribing or redirecting back to your new sites.

Hope everything works out for you.

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Originally Posted by kinwall

i lost everything today. all my offer page was wiped off by blogger.i have 40 blogs and some where making me money majorly from clickbank and today i checked and everything is gone.

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dbarnum 14 years ago

Recycle your content (use the files from your hard drive), and get back up and running. Post your content to a Wordpress blog, free from GoDaddy if you buy your domain there (cheap), or to Squidoo or Hubpages (if it's original content only at Hubpages), etc.

Note: Not sure what you are selling or how, but see guidelines at whichever place you post. You may be focusing on content that is not allowed on the hosting sites like adult content or mass destruction weapons or something.
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- inter123 14 years ago
  
  Don't worry too much. Luckily it was only 40 pages, imagine if the site contained hundreds of articles? I am sure you can get back to the same point within a few months.
  
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101millionAds

14 years ago

Oh my God,

I would have cried my heart out of that happend to my blogs.
Whats up with Google? They seem to do things very difficult to everyone how tries
to make a living online.One of my blogs just vanished from page 1 , 2 days ago and i
haven`t seen it since.
Can`t someone slap that ....big time once and for all.

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Sheryl Polomka

14 years ago

Oh wow, you must be devastated. I can only say what everyone else has said already that this is why it is so important to have paid hosting and your own domain. I know that doesn't help your situation, but make sure that when you start over you do so with your own website.

I really feel bad for you, I know I would probably sit and cry if that happened to me

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simbat

14 years ago

Wow , What happened ??
40 blogs!! That a big loss, I am sorry for you

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Alex Lin

14 years ago

Did you mean that you are using free blog from blogger and your entire blogs got banned ? Please tell us what happen.

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oneplusone

14 years ago

You definitely have marketing talent.

"I just lost everything today" no doubt gets a far higher open rate than "I just lost a few blogs" which most people would have posted.

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fort21

14 years ago

sad to hear that, it will be good if you can share the stories behind this saga so that forumers can gain some useful insight...hope you recover soonest!

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Tina Golden

14 years ago

I can't believe no one has said this yet but did you appeal to the administration yet? I know plenty of people that had their blogs reinstated after a review so try that before you just write them off as lost.

I also second what other people are saying. As a way to start off earning, blogger and other free sites are fine. But once you start making money, you need to get yourself some domains and paid hosting so you are in control of your properties.

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kinwall

14 years ago

Originally Posted by TMG Enterprises

I can't believe no one has said this yet but did you appeal to the administration yet? I know plenty of people that had their blogs reinstated after a review so try that before you just write them off as lost.

I also second what other people are saying. As a way to start off earning, blogger and other free sites are fine. But once you start making money, you need to get yourself some domains and paid hosting so you are in control of your properties.

Tina

thanks for the advice. actually i have not tried to appeal because i guess it about time i use more of paid blogs than the free one.

in response to the people that asked what happened. all i know is all was deleted overnight without warning. though a friend on this forum once warned me that for exposing my blogger link of forum can get me barned so i guess its just a wake up call to ouse more of paid blogs.

I'm still yet to recover from it because its like all my marketing effort has gone to tin air

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Nonny

14 years ago

Originally Posted by iammarketer72

You may not be able to even if you wanted. Its very unfortunate but correct me if I'm wrong. I believe using blogger. etc for commercial use is against tos.

Wrong. Blogger even makes it easy to set up AdSense advertising and Amazon affiliate ads on your blog.

You are probably thinking of free blogs hosted at wordpress.com, where it is true that you aren't supposed to have ads or promote products.

But regardless, they should have sent you a warning so you'd have time to backup/ copy your work.. Well that would have been the humane way for them to handle this situation before pulling the plug completely imo..

If your blog or web site is important to you, you will have a back up already. Even self-hosted sites can be lost without warning if the server they are on has a problem, or the site is hacked.

Unfortunately that's a lesson that many people (including me) have learned the hard way.

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Keen F

14 years ago

Originally Posted by kinwall

thanks for the advice. actually i have not tried to appeal because i guess it about time i use more of paid blogs than the free one.

in response to the people that asked what happened. all i know is all was deleted overnight without warning. though a friend on this forum once warned me that for exposing my blogger link of forum can get me barned so i guess its just a wake up call to ouse more of paid blogs.

I'm still yet to recover from it because its like all my marketing effort has gone to tin air

Sad to hear that Kinwall D= But all your marketing efforts are not wasted. If you manage to copy your sites into a new domain google will send the same traffic to those websites as if they were your blogger sites. They know that its the same site, just moved.

But as some of the people have said here, you need to get the content from your original sites either through the google cache or the way back machine.

I used to have a site on a subdomain and moved it to its own website. All the traffic from google stopped going to the original one and it moved to the new website.

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tamilseo

14 years ago

It is the cost of "Free"

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attractionmarketing

14 years ago

thats too bad I hope you manage to get started again buying a domain and hosting doesnt need to cost a lot there are always godaddy discounts available and if you go to hostgor sign up to the baby package and input wordpress99 into the discount code and you will get your first months hosting for just 1 cent hope that helps and you get it sorted soon

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jazbo

14 years ago

Grab yourself a VPS or reseller hosting and start building your sites in a way that you are in control. Building on free hosts is like building on sand. I am sorry you learned the hard way.

Chin up and now build an empire that lasts.

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sagarrai000

14 years ago

Oh too sad. Was it your solely income?

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Kim Davis

14 years ago

Ouch Ouch Ouch... The only good thing is you are wise enough to start over and get back what you had quicker. But I would still cry for a whole day and then move forward the next day. It does unfortunately happen to people who use Blogger. A far too expensive lesson.

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Bruce NewMedia

14 years ago

I hate to read posts like this, for two reasons:
One, I feel terribly for the poster who lost all their sites/income...

...and also I think it shows how marketers are foolishly relying on these 'free' hosts like Blogger and Squidoo and all the others. They cannot be depended on for squat!

I use Blogger a lot, but only to test out ideas and then roll them over into my owned domains and hosting. That, at least to me, is the only model that works when using Blogger.
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gareth

14 years ago

Reminds me of the old adsense days - whats new ?

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Mega B

14 years ago

Its not a nice thing to happen for sure,but when its your main mode of earning revenue you have too take precautions so these type of things dont happen.I hope you get some of them up and running quickly.

I had a similar type of thing happen years ago and it took me some time to get back up and running again,these days i have my 30 odd sites split between 2 dedicated servers by 2 hosting companies and also a backup vps server,all the major things like artwork and major scripts are also backed up.

Hope it all goes well for you

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Warren.Richards

14 years ago

I feel sorry for you.

But why should I? Were you not in your sense to make all the 40 blogs on blogger. When you earn money, you need to use it for your business's betterment.

you forgot an important step and so you got some punishment.

But still I'm feeling bad. I know how it feels to loose everything in just one single shot.

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Carlsbadd

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Warren.Richards

I feel sorry for you.

But why should I? Were you not in your sense to make all the 40 blogs on blogger. When you earn money, you need to use it for your business's betterment.

you forgot an important step and so you got some punishment.

But still I'm feeling bad. I know how it feels to loose everything in just one single shot.

I agree, 40 blogs can be replaced, I only use blogger as a feeder to my money sites

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tryinhere

14 years ago

I just lost everything today

G seems to be speading the love far and wide, hope you get it sorted.

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DrewG

14 years ago

Sorry to hear.

Moral of story = always own your own sites.

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Raydal

14 years ago

That's a tough setback and a hard lesson in not placing all
your eggs in one basket. I always use blogger for 'throw away'
blogs but use Wordpress for those I want to keep.

You haven't lost EVERYTHING, just your blogs. It just FEELS
like you lost everything. Get up, brush off and keep going.

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kindsvater

14 years ago

Looking at your signature links, in the future you want to try creating higher quality content. Of course, get your own domain. For less than 10 bucks a year you can have your own 'blogspot' domain and up as many blogs and subdomains as you want.

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CAPTCHAbiz

14 years ago

I remember a guy who use to get his blogger blog top on "make money online" keyword and he enjoyed his stay for years however google ban, he lost his major income. He emailed google informing that his blog is not 'spam'. Shockingly, google restore his blog and rankings. It's been 3 months of that incident and now i can see his blog gone again.

Accept the fact and stop relying on google for living, Paid traffic costs but you are in control of that.

To OP, bad luck man.

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itzpaul

14 years ago

Damn that sucks. Oh well, stuff like this happens. We have to do our own research and make sure the business we are in doesn't crash and if so we need to move and expand to save it before it does fall.

I'm sure you've made some money from your blogs and didn't have any expenses. I'd suggest doing it over again and starting with real sites and domains instead of free blogs. Anyways, good luck on your journey. I hope you fix it so you can earn big bucks again.

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SDenham

14 years ago

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

If you built that empire once, you can do it again, this time with a more solid foundation.

Best of luck to you, I look forward to hearing your "Comeback Song"
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femraven

14 years ago

hi, sorry for your loss, I heard someone say:"A set back, is a setup, for a comeback"
believe that.
all the best to you

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Karen Blundell 14 years ago

as much as I'm sorry for your loss because I don't like to see anything bad happen to people, you have to be serious about your business. Remember it takes money to make money. In this case not spending a little bit of money for domain registration and low-cost web hosting has cost you a whole lot.
I hope others reading this thread will just get it:

DO NOT USE FREE SITES TO LAUNCH A BUSINESS, PEOPLE!
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  Sometimes going with paid hosting is not always the answer either. Some cheap hosts will take your money and vanish with your money time and websites. Back up and Back up ofter is the moto.
  
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Aussie_Al

14 years ago

You didn't lose everything, you gained a very valuable lesson

Look at it as price of an education

Learn, grow and move onwards

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jan roos 14 years ago

I'm so sorry to hear that. I know the feeling even though not that that extent. If you get up from this set back and continue your quest then you are a real winner and deserve to make a living online.

I hope you do and will be rooting for ya.

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Gclunis

14 years ago

If you were making money then you should have taken the time ot transfer everything to a domain and do a redirect. However since that is no longer an option, perhaps you can contact blogger and see if they will at least allow you to get the info off of the blog (i'm sure it's still saved somewhere) If not and you don't have offline backups (always save the stuff you put online) then i'm afraid you may just have to cut your losses and start over.

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jake411

14 years ago

Originally Posted by kinwall

i lost everything today. all my offer page was wiped off by blogger.i have 40 blogs and some where making me money majorly from clickbank and today i checked and everything is gone.

You can appeal to Google and
they will re-instate your blogs...

provided everything you were doing
was legal and legit, and didn't
violate the TOS.

Jake

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Frugal Jen

14 years ago

Originally Posted by jake411

You can appeal to Google and
they will re-instate your blogs...

provided everything you were doing
was legal and legit, and didn't
violate the TOS.

Jake

Don't bet on it- sometime they do and sometimes they don't. My site- The Closeout Kid was deleted, and determined that is was spam after a manual check.

Now this was a completely legit site and I was not reinstated. You can look at it from my link- it's is pretty much the same site as I had on Blogger.

The problem is that free is so tempting when a wordpress site is going to cost at least $75-100 a year. And beyond that- when something is working for you it takes momentum to change it.

But people should take this as a warning- it you are making more that $100 a year off a site, you should probably move it off blogger. At minimum get a custom domain for $10 year so when they do delete it you can move the site and not lose traffic.

Don't think it can't happen to you.

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jake411

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Frugal Jen

Don't bet on it- sometime they do and sometimes they don't. My site- The Closeout Kid was deleted, and determined that is was spam after a manual check.

Now this was a completely legit site and I was not reinstated. You can look at it from my link- it's is pretty much the same site as I had on Blogger.

The problem is that free is so tempting when a wordpress site is going to cost at least $75-100 a year. And beyond that- when something is working for you it takes momentum to change it.

But people should take this as a warning- it you are making more that $100 a year off a site, you should probably move it off blogger. At minimum get a custom domain for $10 year so when they do delete it you can move the site and not lose traffic.

Don't think it can't happen to you.

jen

Please note that I mentioned "legal and legit"
and "not violating Blogger TOS".

Start from there!!

Jake

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Frugal Jen

14 years ago

Originally Posted by jake411

Please note that I mentioned "legal and legit"
and "not violating Blogger TOS".

Start from there!!

Jake

See the thing is that "not violating blogger tos" is subjective. From some of the research I have done running any blog on blogger that is not deemed a "personal" blog- could be violating their rules.

I highly doubt that anyone here in the WF is worried about losing a personal blog on blogger- they are worried about money making blogs.

But here is the other thing- it is totally the subject of their whims if they put it back up or not. When I lost my blog several others in my niche did, too- some of theirs were reinstated while mine was not and there was no difference- just a different person who reviewed it.

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jake411

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Frugal Jen

See the thing is that "not violating blogger tos" is subjective. From some of the research I have done running any blog on blogger that is not deemed a "personal" blog- could be violating their rules.

I highly doubt that anyone here in the WF is worried about losing a personal blog on blogger- they are worried about money making blogs.

But here is the other thing- it is totally the subject of their whims if they put it back up or not. When I lost my blog several others in my niche did, too- some of theirs were reinstated while mine was not and there was no difference- just a different person who reviewed it.

jenetta

Hey Jenetta

I understand your frustration, but...
it's Googles show. We're just players.

Also, you can appeal if you feel one
reviewer was too harsh in interpreting
the TOS.

It's your job to convince
them that you didn't violate the TOS.

Hope that helps.

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DreamShaper 14 years ago

Originally Posted by jake411

You can appeal to Google and
they will re-instate your blogs...

provided everything you were doing
was legal and legit, and didn't
violate the TOS.

Jake

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14 years ago

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Thinking_man_too

14 years ago

So sorry to hear that!

Running websites and blogs for a profit is a business. And sometimes bad things happen in businesses. Just ask the hundreds of thousands of small business owners that have lost their business in the last few years.

I lost my bricks and mortar retail business and related ecommerce business as the recession gained steam. I Lost pretty much everything. 6 figures.

But I picked up and moved forward and looking back I learned so much and I am such a better business person for having owned that business that while I could have done things differently I have no regrets.

You will recover and move abead and become better for it if you allow yourself to.

Chin up. And take the advice of a lot of people that have posted on ways to try to recover the remaining assets (what portions of the l;ost blogs that you can) and rebuild what you can.

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mauricio.quito

14 years ago

If it's gone, it's gone... Overcome the memories of how much work you put into it and begin building again.

I would say look back to what you did and what happen and thi time make the necessary adjustments so you don't have to deal with this again. Maybe find another way, but under no circunstances do the same.

paz y amor,

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H.Miller

14 years ago

Man that really sucks. Thats why I started making sure I have everything hosted on my own domain. That kind of happened to me with squidoo. I was using them as my "money page" so to speak and when they changed their rules, they took down my page. All the work I had done driving traffic to that site was just gone. I was making quite a few sales every single day from the lens. And then just gone. So I am now a firm believer in hosting everything on my own domain.

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Joseph Michael

14 years ago

if it was workin keep goin, do what you was doin make a new account, but spread your efforts across other hosting platforms, and yes I would definately consider your own, but sounds like you had abit of a hit n run thing goin on, where cost of domain and hosting may not justify the money earned in clicks or commissions.

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Astron

14 years ago

If you don`t have backup from your content, than there is a good chance that you can still find them in Google cache. (you need to act fast, couse it will be deleted permamently soon) Like this you can save them and start a new blog on your own domain. Also try to look at the bright side, you still have the skill to build profitable websites, and you can not lose that one

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Recession_Proof

14 years ago

Originally Posted by kinwall

i lost everything today. all my offer page was wiped off by blogger.i have 40 blogs and some where making me money majorly from clickbank and today i checked and everything is gone.

So sorry to hear that Kinwall. BUT HAVE NO FEAR. Been in a similar spot.

This may not be able to get your offers back and you will have to recreate the payment buttons.

BUT, I would try going to all of your blogs domains (assuming you do know all of the addresses).

AND try to get the actual content back by doing a GOOGLE CACHED VIEW

. If they were indexed long enough you should be able to retrieve them all.

I hope this works for you and let me know.

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Recession_Proof 14 years ago

oops! Astron already is thinking fast. I didn't read to the bottom:rolleyes:.

See you'll be back on the gravy train before you know it!
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Joe Mobley

14 years ago

kinwall,

It would be interesting to hear about the results from any action(s) you take.

Did you talk with Google? And...?
What did Google say you did wrong?
Were you able to recover from Google cache?
Did you move the sites?
Are you making money again?
Yadah, yadah...

I think we could learn a lot from your experience and your reaction(s) to it.

Just a thought.

Joe

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SDenham

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Recession_Proof

oops! Astron already is thinking fast. I didn't read to the bottom:rolleyes:.

See you'll be back on the gravy train before you know it!

Originally Posted by DigitalJoe

kinwall,

It would be interesting to hear about the results from any action(s) you take.

Did you talk with Google? And...?
What did Google say you did wrong?
Were you able to recover from Google cache?
Did you move the sites?
Are you making money again?
Yadah, yadah...

I think we could learn a lot from your experience and your reaction(s) to it.

Just a thought.

Joe

I second this post, and I've been watching this thread for an update. How about letting us know what you decided to do. Wish there was a way I could help.

if you want links to great hosting providers, I've got a cheap one, but I won't vouch for uptime, as my sites go down intermittently.

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Owen Smith

14 years ago

Should not pull all your eggs in one basket.

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turnej

14 years ago

damn that sucks sorry to hear that, try to focus on all you have learned and you will soon get back to your former glory, maybe host your own site this time

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averagejenny

14 years ago

Originally Posted by kinwall

i lost everything today. all my offer page was wiped off by blogger.i have 40 blogs and some where making me money majorly from clickbank and today i checked and everything is gone.

I am so sorry for you, I had a blog that was wiped away from blogger as well. That is why I invested in making my own websites. I didn't want to take a risk of me investing so much into something and then suddenly it is taken down. So now I have about 5 websites that I purchased with GoDaddy and hosting them with HostGator. I also have Wordpress on all of them and building them to make a long term success with. I hope everything turns out all right with you..

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l_christopher

14 years ago

Whoa....whoa. How is that possible? Like what situations would make them do that?

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Tymarkinc

14 years ago

Originally Posted by kinwall

i lost everything today. all my offer page was wiped off by blogger.i have 40 blogs and some where making me money majorly from clickbank and today i checked and everything is gone.

"I just lost everything today" - You gained a valuable lesson and your business will become stronger because of it.

I feel your pain and it would be easy to give up right now. I would probably take a few days off to recoup get my mind right, and then I would get busy again.
Real Real Busy. Build better sites, with better copy, and get more traffic.

Blogger took your sites, but they can't take your skills. Rebuild

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ArtiGal 14 years ago

Hi Kinwall,

As others have expressed - you lost some blogs and the income stream for now, but the ability to do what you did - create and monetize content is something no one can take away from you.

It is a tough lesson - maybe you can get them reinstated, but probably best not to get your hopes up. Now you can move forward creating properties you own and control and use platforms like blogger for the purpose of gaining additional exposure and links.

Best of luck,

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clever7

14 years ago

I lost 4 blogspot blogs in 2009 and until today I feel a pain in my heart when I remember them. Nobody helped me get them back. And they were very helpful for the public.

A hacker got my passwords and infected them with malware. I was a victim, but Google didn't care about learning what had happened.

Now I have only one blog at Blogger and I use it only for traffic. I promote only my Wordpress blog, which is in my own domain name.

40 blogs is really a very big loss! I'm revolted with Blogger's indifference. We waste our precious time and our efforts creating nice things, but they are not our propriety because we have used a free platform.

However, many other people do the same without any problem. They use free blogs for years and years, and nothing happens to them. So, we tend to believe that will be among the lucky ones.

This is a false conception. Everybody online must understand very well how dangerous these free platforms are. We should all abandon these free platforms until they would make us feel safe enough in order to spend our precious time and energy using them.

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dzinerfusion

14 years ago

Seems to me you may have broken the blogger TOS. I recommend getting a real domain, and real hosting and use Wordpress.

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Marhelper

14 years ago

Just a set back. Learn from it and move on ... trust me I have been there.

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zinally

14 years ago

Uhuk..Uhuk!:-( Sad moment for you and I hope you learned and prepare a better strategy for your next IM. I always used free platform to test the "market" if it can earn I will follow-up by converting it to my own hosting. Better be safe than sorry.

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Mohsin Rasool

14 years ago

Sorry to listen this!

I suggest you compile all of your content from Google Cache and Archive.org and then try to repost that content to your own domains or blogs on some other service like Wordpress.org for the time being.. but your goal should be to port this all to your own domains.

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seanicasia

14 years ago

Hey Kinwall,

Thank you for sharing, and I feel really sorry for you.

It's also a lesson for me to be careful. I do have a few free blogs on blogger ... although not necessarily intended for making money.

Then again, I'm reminded that if it's going to be a very important website to me, I'd better have my own hosting for it.

Hope things pick up for you!

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Jack Duncan

14 years ago

kinwall,
All may not be lost yet.

(fingers crossed)

Have you tried to do a site: search on your blogs at Google, Yahoo, and BING to see if you can grab your content via the cached page?

It may take a little work, but you could just get back all the content you created and repost into your own blog/domain.

Have you tried this yet?

Hope this helps,
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Dreamanddo

14 years ago

Originally Posted by kinwall

i lost everything today. all my offer page was wiped off by blogger.i have 40 blogs and some where making me money majorly from clickbank and today i checked and everything is gone.

Don't tell us with 40 blogs you never bothered to build a list?!?

I hate to bust your chops if it's true, but it SOUNDS awfully fishy that you ONLY have blogs and no lists, email OR social, you market to?!?

If it IS true, 40 blogs is a tough hit, but you should be able to generate income with your lists while you rebuild. Pick yourself up, dust yourself off and start hammerin' at it!

GOOD LUCK!

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Aaarrrggghhh

14 years ago

Oooouuuuucccccchhhh! So sorry you had to go through that...BUT on the flip side you were obviously doing ALOT right so get back to focusing on everything you were doing right ASAP...that is a lot more than many other marketers have discovered and NOBODY can take that away from you...lessons learned, right? RIGHT!

Now take some of that cashola you earned on-line and mover forward. Onward and Upwards WARRIOR! You are a Warrior right? OF COURSE YOUR ARE!

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TPFLegionaire

14 years ago

Hi,

As with everybody else, I am very sorry for your loss.

If there is anything specific you need to get back on your feet. PM me and I will do my best to help.

Stay strong.Good luck.

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seanster

14 years ago

MOney, you best hurry, like they say Google Cache in Serp page or WayBack Machine. OR try COPYSCAPE and paste some of your content, somebody might have swiped it, and you can't find that crappy blogger who stole it. ! :0

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Marc Rodill 14 years ago

Dude. Bummer.

I know you'll get it all and more.

Probably planning a comeback as we speak.

Marc

P.S. This is Google speaking:

"All your blog are belong to us."

(Sorry, I couldn't resist 8-)
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JustVisiting

14 years ago

Google could give users a period of notice if they decide blogs do not conform to their rules. Then the user could make alternative arrangements.

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prism

14 years ago

Kinwall,

It stinks. I know. Google did that to me a few months ago. There one day & gone the next. I also had the $100 of "free" advertising through them for PPC. Then I got a call from my credit card company about charges to my account - $10 here, $20 there. They were from Google for advertising.

I'm still trying to get credit for those, months later.

Paul T.

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Guido DeSpano 14 years ago

Hi,

2 Years ago I had a similar situation with my adsense account and I had 1000's there, I couldn't pay employees, bills in my office I went broke! ...but I learn more in the last 2 years about making money and Internet marketing than never before... sometimes we need to fall in order to learn to avoid falling hard again ...cuz you might fall down again but you will recover much faster

I would say never stick to something like it will last forever profit from it when you can, meanwhile start thinking in other ways of income... with the knowledge you already have plus the knowledge you can get from this forum you will look back at this incident in a couple of months and you will see that everything helped you to get to a better place...

All the best,

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VIBGYORtel

14 years ago

This was happened because you are using free stuff, Take one VPS and install Wordpress
If you don't have back up of you contents go to you blogs which blogger had deleted and go to the cashed...you may get you contents back

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Joe Benjamin

14 years ago

Originally Posted by kinwall

i lost everything today. all my offer page was wiped off by blogger.i have 40 blogs and some where making me money majorly from clickbank and today i checked and everything is gone.

WELCOME!

...to the fabolous world of internet marketing!

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Scott Million

14 years ago

Were these a bunch of autoblogs?

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Raja Kamil

14 years ago

Stop crying, start again. But this time with precautions as suggested by other Warriors.
Wish you a good luck.

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MGL

14 years ago

Hosting and domain names are reasonably inexpensive.

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richgrad

14 years ago

That's why I advise everyone who's trying to get started online...

Get your own domain and hosting!!!

blogspot/blogger belongs to google... your own domain/hosting belongs to you...

Yes you need to pay a little every month... but it's definitely worth it!

Now what you can do is try and email google and wait about a month (that's what happened a long time ago when I first had my blogs on blogspot and encountered problems) to see if things get resolved... if not, worse case scenario is to learn from your lesson and start from scratch... but don't worry... you don't actually start from nothing...

You start from the knowledge you already acquired! And that's a better place to start than a complete newbie right?

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deannatroupe

14 years ago

...And that is why i have a love/hate relationship with Google. They put out some great products, but then they operate like a monarchy. I truly hope that you were able to build a list and have a backup of the content that was on your blogs. If you need help getting things back in order, pm me and I'll see what I can do.

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jelder1

14 years ago

I'm so sorry to hear that I feel for you. I have an organic site that took me two months to make around a cpa offer (it was the product name keyword) and it was taken down today. I made 500 bucks from it last month but it is now gone. Not as bad as your situation but i genuinely feel for you!

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humbledmarket

Banned 14 years ago

I'm sorry to hear it but I think it's probably against blogger tos. Supposedly nothing commercial is allowed or that is what I heard. Someone, if I'm not mistaken; alexa recommended using weebly instead. It's a great alternative I have to agree and very useful

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FlockPad

14 years ago

Ouch!

Actually, you didn't lose everything. You lost some blogs and a lot of hard work -- but you still have your brains, your contacts, and your skills!

That probably doesn't mean much, but it's true.

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Nigel C.

14 years ago

By now you should have already know what niches/keywords are converting for you. What's so difficult to get your own sites up and bankin' again?

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bertuseng

14 years ago

That is bad luck man. I hope you use what you have gained in knowledge and apply it again as soon as possible.

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sampip

14 years ago

I couldn't believe it when I read this, I would have been so mortified and upset. My blood pressure would have been sky high!

I hope you get it back together buddy, don't give up on it! Good luck

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ajbarnes777 14 years ago

Wow, sorry to hear that! I hope you bounce back and get everything back to normal.

I agree with all the posters who've mentioned how Google is becoming more and more of a pain to deal with (adwords, adsense, blogger blogs, etc.).

The way I approach this is exactly like what my sig reads below: Improvise... adapt... overcome.

Good luck and I pray everything works out... just stay focused and positive, and I'm sure you'll gain even more success than before!
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Patrick10

14 years ago

I feel very sorry when I read something like this but on the bright side you made it the first time you will make it again and you are wiser now!!!

Don't give up
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FredJones 14 years ago

Sorry to hear - this hurts.

Let me provide you a solid plan - and please do double-check whether all of it is legit since I don't know the ToS well enough at that level, but just letting my thought out off the hat as quickly as I can to give you the best of chances.

Type in your address - whatever.blogspot.com - if that does not work (gives you error) then see if you can grab that subdomain once more.

Repeat this for all your lost blogger blogs.

Use content from cache.

Once you get back the content, invest the next part of your time to get a domain (for each of your blogger sites).

Then, create a set of folders with the same names as in your blogger. So if you have foobargarbage.blogger.com/august/post1 then create foobargarbage.com/august.post1 and so on.

Finally, add a HTML/Javascript to your blogger and see if you can use that to redirect a standard form of HTML redirection code. Remove all the posts that you had from blogger. This will act like a moved domain.

Now, keep building your backlinks only to the newer domain. Forget that you had your old blogger domains.

Once again, please do carefully double-check that all of this is in ToS - I don't know myself (for example, redirecting empty blogs, recreating the same blog using your old blogger account and so on). If this works and is legit, great. If not, see if some variation of this helps.

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Dean Jackson

14 years ago

Aw man... that blows. As others suggested, start pointing all your regulars back to your own domain name.

You should be up and running in no time.

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levmonch

14 years ago

Wow thats sucks I'm sorry to hear about that, but theres always something you can do about it..

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taylorwinfield4

14 years ago

Ouch man sorry to here this!

This is why I always host my own blogs and keep backups etc!

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GoogleWarrior

14 years ago

Ouch! Lesson learned though. Now start to redo all of your blogs on YOUR OWN SITES.COM!

And maybe this time you will make double or more than what you were making before!

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14 years ago

Sorry about that!

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Demond Jackson

14 years ago

As everyone has said, yeah that does suck.

Now to the good news. If you built 40 Blogger blogs, you have the knowledge to easily duplicate it. I use GoDaddy for domains and Hostgator for hosting. I've never had any problems and don't expect to.

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14 years ago

This is the "cost" of free.

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Dimitris Skiadas

14 years ago

If you had a blog just 4 fun, i would have told you "Ok mate, that sucks but what can u do?" . But dude, you had professional views for this thing!You made money from your blogs!You had affiliate links in there!You should never build blogs that are made to make you money in free hosting!I know mate. THIS SUCKS!Now redo all your sites in your own domain names!

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