Did you notice that most of blogs hosted on blogspot is not strong when it comes to seo ranking, even with a unique content and design . my PR for example is 0 and when I first write on something and be on the first page at Google results page for a keyword, I go down so fast to the 5th or 6th page after a while ... weird and bad I wish that I hosted my blog on paid hosting with a unique domain from the beginning .
I don't think blogspot blogs are not good at Google rankings. Maybe you have choosen a very competitive keyword in the very first place. Ranking mostly depends on your contents and your offpage structure. To rank very high in google for a competitive keyword, you need to get a lot of quality links to your page with the keyword you are optimizing for.
Dude I have lot of quality keywords and high traffic from google, I don't copy and past or even use people to write for me, and my visitors are my friends and you can see that on the comments and I love them all, my problem is just the page rank, I have lot of links even on my pr3 and pr4 sites and it's not moving .
WEll i have seen many blogs with blogspot.com domain of 3-4 PR. but it depends a lot , how much time they hav spend.. and for @SAR 420 digg.com is the place where you can publish your articles with your own links , but make sure the articles are first indexed by google ...from your blog, otherwise danger to PR.
Ow thats my fault then, I have been doing it right after posting, but I am not doing it anymore for the last month .
Blogspot blogs are good at SE rankings if you do some onsite and offsite SEO for them, they do have an edge over the other sites, I know that for sure IT
Guys beware and take care of the articles as they are our tools which helps us in bringing Traffic .. So take care of the timing
I have many many blogger blogs, and they all seem to do well. Sometimes they go up and down in rankings but its the same as everything else
Regardless of their actual impact on SEO, I think you're a lot better off in the long-run to use your own hosting and CMS. By doing this, you have much more control, and it is a lot easier to brand/gain credibility for your blog
I think it really depends on the content and community. There are several blogspot blogs that are PR 6 .. especially the ones specializing in blogger hacks.
@Correctus: "Blogspot blogs are good at SE rankings if you do some onsite and offsite SEO for them, they do have an edge over the other sites, I know that for sure." A big, big player in the visibility of any article is the title. Get that right and the SEO will pretty much look after itself. By that, I mean that if you create interesting hook lines, provokotive questions, fancy, funny titles that are a play on words, you'll do just fine...
In my experience, Blogger blogs have good SEO with Google. I use Blogger hosted for my blogs and it seems to work great. - Edward 602