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Blog Disabled What Should I Do

by mekap04
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A few days ago one of my best performing blogs got disabled. It was on blogger. I heard that if a blogger blog gets disabled, there is not much chance of getting it back but I don't want to lose all that content since I didn't back up my blog.

(Great example why you should use your own domain and get paid hosting)

Right now I transferred the domain to my hosting and installed wordpress. Do you think I should just go ahead and create content for the wordpress blog and forget about blogger? I have many inner pages ranking for long tailed keywords and if I start from scratch, I know they will be gone and invalid.
#blog #disabled
  • Profile picture of the author Shaun OReilly
    This illustrates two important lessons that need to be
    learned:

    1. Only place your most important content in places where
    you have control.

    2. Always - always - backup your sites and data regularly.

    Treat it like a business.

    Dedicated to your success,

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    • Profile picture of the author ScottTrimble
      There's nothing you can do about it. Try see if Google cache still holds your posts and copy em all to your new wp blog and start from there.

      Never, ever keep your money making sites on free hosts.
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      • Profile picture of the author Joe Mobley
        Have you contacted Google? What do they have to say about the disabled blog?

        Good point about backing up your blogs, including your new WP blog on your new domain.

        Keep us updated.


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  • Profile picture of the author Michelle Strait
    I had two Blogger blogs disabled, and I got them both enabled again. Blogger should have sent an email letting you know how to get your blog reinstated. They normally respond pretty quickly if they decide your blog's content is acceptable. My blogs were cleared and returned to my control, but I stopped using Blogger anyway.
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  • Profile picture of the author bgmacaw
    It hasn't been too difficult to get a disabled Blogger blog back, at least in the past. Just go through the steps outlined in the reinstatement email you received. Unless your blog is so bad that it can't survive a cursory visual review, it should be reinstated.

    Now, they could have tightened down things even more recently and made this process worse. I don't have any recent experiences with this though.

    I do recommend that you begin moving away from Blogger ASAP. While it used to be a good place to bootstrap a niche marketing business, it no longer is due to the ham-handed and overly aggressive anti-spam bot. I don't even recommend placing a non-commercial personal blog there.
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  • Profile picture of the author JD Nunes
    If I were you, I would have multiple variations of your blog all over the Internet, and link to a main blog on a site that you own. This gives you more control AND influence.
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    • Profile picture of the author chrisscott
      One of my blog also got blocked a year ago. I tried so many times to reinstate it but failed all the times.

      Fortunately I backed it up so didn't lose any content but definitely it took a while on new domain to got that place on which my blog was.
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  • Profile picture of the author peter gibson
    I had a blog that I was just too lazy and forgetful to move get disabled a while back and panicked. Came on here and posted this thread. If you follow the steps that everyone in that link advised me to do, you should get your blog back - I did.

    I will tell you this however, once the blog was reinstated it was only performing at best 60% from what it was achieving before google tanked it. Of course I moved it quickly off the blogger platform, and I'd seriously advise you to do the same.
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