Why Your Blogger Blogspot is Disabled

If you are blogging in blogger.com / blogspot, there’s something you should be prepared: your blog all of a sudden being wrongly disabled. This happens a lot and if it happens to you nothing you can do about it. You cannot protest blogger.com for this. All you have to do is submit a request to RESTORE back your blog since your blog is not spam, the only reason behind the disabling.

If your blog is not spam and you are not a spammer, why blogger.com disables your blog? Blogger.com uses automatic anti-spam tools which probably sends a wrong signal in reporting your blog activities and thus automatically disable your blog. Since it’s done automatically by anti-spam machine, Blogger.com opens to restoration request–and even offer an apology. Here’s what blogger.com has to say on this issue:

Why is my blog disabled? If your blog is disabled, it will be listed on your Dashboard, but you will not be able to click on it to access it. If this is the case, there will be a grace period during which you can request that it be reviewed and recovered. The disabling is a result of our automated classification system marking it as spam. Because this system is automated there will necessarily be some false positives, though we’re continually working on improving our algorithms to avoid these. If your blog is not a spam blog, then it was one of the false positives, and we apologize.

What constitutes a spam blog in blogger.com book which deserves the disable award? Link spamming, says Blogspot:

Blogs engaged in this [link spamming] behavior are called spam blogs, and can be recognized by their irrelevant, repetitive, or nonsensical text, along with a large number of links, usually all pointing to a single site.

Actually it’s not the only reason. Another factor of what’s considered spam blog in blogger.com is if you’re writing many articles within a short span of time or a day. The anti spam bot will detect your blog as spam as well and deserve to be disabled by blogger.com / blogspot. A nasty competitor can also make your blog disabled by reporting your blog as a spam one. So, beware.

As a precaution, it’s better if you import your blog content in blogspot to a wordpress-powered blog on regular basis (monthly, for example) as a backup. Be it in a free wordpress blog like wordpress.com or in a wordpress self-hosted blog to make sure that your blog content you write painstakingly do not go wasted just in case blogger.com don’t want to restore your blog content back.