I want to ask about free-hosted blogs like at Wordpress.com and similar free blog hosts. This question is NOT about self-hosted blogs. My question is this: Suppose I set up a new blog at a free blog host like Wordpress.com and make one or two posts, then completely abandon the blog. Will this blog be deleted after a certain period of inactivity. If so, how long will stay up before it is deleted? Thank you
As long as it doesn't violate any TOS rules like having porn, hate or a bunch of spam, it should stay there forever. If it gets reported a bunch of times, I'm sure it's taken down as well...
Squidoo sent me an email saying that if blogs go a certain period of time with no activity, they will let someone else take the name if they try to sign up with the same name as mine. I'm trying to find the email to give you the time frame. But anyway, I have had an inactive squidoo lens for over a year and they have not let anyone else use the name yet.
they never follow through with that (I don't think they have the ability to even do that, from what I remember)...for instance, squidoo.com/iphone has been sitting around stagnant forever and nobody ever did anything about it.
Thanks for the replies. Another Question: Does anyone ever create such short blogs as a way to get links to their main website? By this, I mean why couldn't someone create a free blog, post an article with related content that included a link to their main site, and then abandon the blog. This seems like an obvious and easy way to get some related backlinks. In my particular case, with the type of site I have, such a link could be fairly valuable even if the blog has PR0. Also, If I did this, I wouldn't care about getting visitors to the blog or ad revenue. Even if nobody read it at all, I wouldn't care. All I would care about is getting the link. Do you think this idea would work? And have you ever heard of anyone else doing it? Thank you
I've been doing this for a year yes, it is something you can definitely do. They'll even show up as backlinks in your Google Webmaster account. I also block them from being linked internally, and set it to search engine spidering only. The problem in the beginning is to get it indexed, sometimes those blogs take forever, even with backlinks going to them.
Thanks for this excellent information. (I can find ways to get a blog indexed, and I'm in no hurry anyway). Also, Would you mind recommending which free blog hosts you think are best for this purpose? Thank you
Why would you need to do something like this? You might as well to an easy meme and you'll get tons of backlinks if that's all you're looking for.
Thanks again for the replies. btw, I'm not looking for "tons of backlinks". Instead, I looking for a few strategic backlinks where I can exactly control the anchor text and surrounding content. For the type of site I have, that's what I need at this stage.
i dont understand making other blogs linkin back to yours, but i do believe that after a year inactivity your blog should be deleted.
nope...there's actually someone on blogger.com who registered and used my TM'ed company name and I threatened Blogger.com with a cease and desist..turns out that it was sitting there for 3 years without ever being updated!