As much as I hate to do it – some of my friends have BlogSpot blogs – I’ve banned comments by anyone putting BlogSpot in their website URL or comment. I’ll pull BlogSpot out of my banned domain list. But I’ll probably put it back in again. Many webmasters block BlogSpot and never, ever allow comments from people who put their BlogSpot domain in their comment. I know the service is free but use Live Journal or something else. Richard
Many webmasters ban comments from BlogSpot sites because of the splogs and comment spam. It makes our lives easier. Richard
Sorry the original post wasn't clear. Even with minor promotional efforts I put a blog in it's own domain. But I keep my BlogSpot accounts so I can comment on blogs that don't allow any other option. Richard
Some days. If you are in the habit, it takes only a few minutes and people are very flattered when you show some sign of being aware of them. I don't really worry about BlogSpot links for SEO but some of them can be surprisingly useful for creating relevant traffic. Richard
I think most of us, and serious bloggers get off blogspot asap - but it's great for the less technical users. Personally I use Akismet to clean the spam rather than looking at where they're coming from. BTW: Did you know that you can put the feed for your blog into your control panel options here at DP and get extra links into your site?
I read this comment all the time and have never seen a clear analysis why this is so. I don't quite know what is a serious blogger, but I have been blogging on my Arsenal site since July 2004 and I help my mates on the other blogs in the sig. I think I am a serious blogger and my blog -I wouldn't hesitate to say- is one of the top Arsenal blogs. Perhaps top 5. I just don't see any real need to move from Blogspot. It's established, doing relatively well in the searchengines and that's all I feel I need to worry about, really. Maybe you can advance your argument and convince me to do as you have.
If you are doing well at BlogSpot then I don't think there is necessarily any reason to change (though the bloggers who found their sites suddenly removed may feel differently). Richard
I've seen too many free hosting sites disappear overnight. Tell me it can't happen because it's owned by Google and I'll point you to an Enron executive
I can't imagine surrendering to a giant corporation. Wanting complete control of what I wrote was my motivation for buying my first domain. (Admittedly this was before Google bought Blogger and the services were pathetic compared to nowadays.) I want what I write on my own site, own domain, published by whatever softare I think best. Richard
From what I understand, over 50% of all worldwide blogs are hosted on "blogspot". Doesn't it make sense that at least 50% of the spam (splogs) would come from there as well? I personally like the services they offer for free and while they are suffering from some growing pains right now, when their service is working right it is very good, in my opinion. There are some other good blog services out there and I'm sure some are better than blogspot. However, it doesn't make sense to block all traffic from one blog provider just because it has more spam that other smaller companies. It's kind of like throwing the "baby out with the bath water" in my opinion. Blogspot will figure out a way to stay free and limit the amount of spam that is passing through their system right now. Once they do these darn spammers will put their sites on other systems, which now seem pretty much spam free and we'll see how these other companies deal with folks who spend their entire day trying to spam the Internet. Since blogspot is the biggest it only makes sense that they will have most of the problems as well.
Seems like the sploggers have learned to submit to directories. I get them daily and most are crap sites to begin with. Splog sites rarely get updated. Anyways, I just delete all those blogs. If someone can not have their own domain for their blog, they do not need to submit to my directories.