Could This Be Googles Real Underlying Reason For Deleting Blogger Blogs?

First off, no...

Google has cut blogs which violate there TOS.

How does cutting the number 1 person do anything when essentially, number 2 will go to number 1.

Facebook isn't competition, facebook will never compete with google because facebook can't

Deleting one blog doesn't cut there organics, it goes to the number 2 guy. They aint removing a keyword from there search, just a blog.

Pure guess that google is loosing loads of money.

$100 vouchers work because, if the person see's results from that $100, what are they gonna do next? Buy some more...

Edit: How do you know thousands got cut off, any links?

Ok then butters then you go do that, go make your million dollar fortune. Enlighten me with your vast knowledge of everything. lol I have an Easter function to get ready for. Happy Easter everyone!

When I see a blogger who has a blogger blog, I pity them. They are building a castle on a quick sand!

Buy a domain, install wordpress with a few clicks using fantastico and get blogging. That's the real asset!

In my opinion:
1. Google is not a non-profit company and it IS responsible to its stock holders! Yes, it is about money, ultimately.
2. Blogger is there for free, but it costs google something. How much drive space, bandwidth and computer server does Blogger use? If 20,000 IMers host just 5 blogs each with the primary purpose of directing traffic to their external sites, how much does it cost Google each month to support the 100,000 sites?
3. Do you think my numbers are high?

Put yourself in their shoes and think about how you would streamline and maximize your profits if you were similar to Google.

IMers are always asking, how do I reduce costs, reduce the time i am spending and maximize long-term profits? Does Google have the "I am making so much now I should start wasting money and giving free service to profit making millionaires?

I am not sure I trust Google entirely, but sometimes the answer to why businesses do things can be found in the Wall Street Journal.

If Google deleted my Blogger blogs, I would not turn to PPC for advertising. One does not logically follow the other.

If Google wanted to drive those people to PPC, a better method would be to come up with an AdWords option for Blogger users. Promote your blog through AdWords... That sort of thing. Such a move would be far more effective in driving people to PPC then simply deleting their blogs.

For one thing, as others have mentioned, if Google deletes your blog, the last thing on your mind is going to be giving them your credit card number. You're going to move to WordPress, either the .com or self-hosted, or any number of other blogging platforms.

I think that Google has long since trashed it's "Do No Evil" motto in favor of "Anything for a Buck or Two", but, in this case, the ulterior motives you described just do not fit the action.

I don't think so.

Here's the traffic Google gets compared to other search engines so I can't see the advertising sales going down.



Also I have used blogger for over 2 years and I have over 20 active blogs in different niches and not a single one has been deleted (all in the same account). So I think that google is deleting blogs against their TOS and that's it.

Google makes $50 million USD per day on Google AdWords alone, their profit is only increasing each day.

Facebook is barely turning profit, regardless of how many users it has, they haven't found a way to monetize it effectively (and they probably never will due to the nature of the product itself).

So no, I highly doubt it. Those blogger blogs were probably deleted due to a simple direct violation of their ToS.

The only reason I use blogger is to build more links to my main site. put a little adsense, and bookmark them, but nothing major. Never put your eggs in one basket. Google is NOT the end all of marketing. Yes, they get most of the SEARCH traffic, but if you think all the traffic on the web USES search, I feel sorry for you. No wonder you have to lie about how much money you really make.

why google want to drive people to use adwords when about six months ago they were banning adwords users by the tens of thousands?

I always find it funny why people speculate so much on Google's activities. They ALWAYS come back to one thing...RELEVANCY.

If you create a blogger blog with the intention of driving traffic only for sales, or only to drive traffic somewhere else, it is NOT RELEVANT.

If you are running adwords campaigns for direct linking to affiliate products the same as thousands of other people, your ads were IRRELEVANT.

Think carefully about almost every item Google does for their search engine, adwords, and adsense, and weigh it against the issue of RELEVANCE, and you will almost always find your answer.

They work diligently to purge garbage out of their systems, to give their real customers the best possible search experience. Their only real customers are SEARCHERS. All of their profits, and all of your profits from Goolge properties are based on the SEARCHERS finding the most RELEVANT material possible, which leads to more conversions, and more money spent on Google advertising. RELEVANCY drives Google's profits.

Facebook on the other hand is allowing you to target demographically selected viewers with a wide range of ads, which have NO RELEVANCY requirement, other than your profits.

Excellent post! Thank you sir

Actually, it sounds like Google is cutting off people who have adwords accounts as well.

I heard from one of the 'legitimate' blogger users who lost a huge number of blogs in one day. She investigated it and found she was in violation of Google's TOS. Free hosting sites host for either charity or profit.

For charity, I mean they allow you to use the space they have for free, but you should not make a profit. I have excess band and disk space and allow friends to use some of it. But, would it make sense to me to give them what I am paying for if they are making hundreds of dollars per month? NO!

I keep reading about how mean Google is deleting all these accounts mysteriously for no other reason than to be show their power. But I spent a couple of days just reading Google's site. It is amazing what you can learn from Google about Google.

It is really simple. Create a site that provides desired content (people want to read and link to it,) is not static (add content periodically,) unique content (not all has to be unique, but it must contain something fresh on that site,) and passes the grandmother test (does it look like the kind of site that you feel comfortable sending your grandmother to if she is spending her life savings there?)

The deleting of adsense/adwords accounts, blogger accounts and the delisting of web sites is all automated in Google, well, mostly automated. Now Google has humans who actually visit and rate sites based on what the SE sees vs what the human sees when they get there.

If thousands of people search a topic and get referred to your page, and none of them wants your page, does it have a right to be in that se position? Any strategy that puts your site at the top when it does not belong is black hat. If there is a pattern to getting it there, Google will find it. They have geniuses working there to create scripts that specialize in that. When Google finds it, it will write the script and anyone using that strategy will get busted back down the ranks or have their adsense/adwords accounts deleted, or have their sites banned by Google.

And why not?

Buck