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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.
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December 3, 2009 at 5:20 am
Nice informasi mas fatih!!!
December 3, 2009 at 9:29 am
Wew.. that is bad.
December 4, 2009 at 10:11 pm
wew….this is the reason why i moved my primary blog to typepad. btw..typepad have free version also. just info for anyone who dont know yet
December 6, 2009 at 3:12 pm
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
December 7, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Well, my block hasn’t been unlocked yet until now. It’s been two weeks I can’t totally access my blog. It is not nice and not polite at all, I only have 37 posts in about 6 months, there’s no reason to keep my blog be locked. I have done all possible procedures to make Blogger change my blog’s status, from send a response, write a sheet appeal to Google, or posting in blogger help forum stated my issue, but nothing had come up with a good news. I think there is no a chance for me to get my blog back.
To those who insist to still use blogspot for your blog, be aware since in anytime you can lost your blog instantly and totally.
#couldn’t agree more. This ‘your-blog-disabled-by-automated-system’ policy is the biggest flipside blogger.com/blogspot has. The anti-spam bot has many times proven to be inaccurate in detecting what’s spam and what’s not. at the same time, the blogspot employees who may unlock the wrong detection infamously working so slowly. imagine if you have 500 original contents and all of a sudden your blog is disabled without prior warning whatsoever and nothing is done on the part of blogspot employee to restore it! imagine the loss of readerships, SEO and could be revenue.
December 7, 2009 at 10:18 pm
Tambah semangat, Guam Chat.
December 8, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Untuk ukuran publisher normal, rumornya posting sebanyak 100 artikel per hari masih belum dianggap spam. Jadi tidak perlu khawatirlah. Terkecuali ada aktifitas yg aneh linking spam baru mungkin diblock.
December 9, 2009 at 2:58 am
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December 12, 2009 at 4:55 am
wah gawat juga ya kalo kena block kayak begitu
December 15, 2009 at 3:04 am
nice to know, nice info… thanks for sharing it sir