Google Hates Competition

[Moola Mails]

Google hates competition, I own a website that offers advertising and traffic and am not allowed to put adwords on my website because it is in direct competition with google. I have also gotten my Blogger blog deleted before I owned an advertising website for having traffic exchange sites on it. Do you think it is fair for google to act in this manner? My blog had over 100 followers and had gotten a pagerank of 3 yet it was deleted for being a spam blog. How is it a spam blog when people who find it are looking for the very things I was offering on the blog, more specifically how to get online traffic. Google will ban sites and delete Blogger blogs that have anything on them that will be in direct competition with one of there services.

[stephengfm]

Promote it on facebook and twitter.

[snakeair]

Originally Posted by Moola Mails

Google hates competition, I own a website that offers advertising and traffic and am not allowed to put adwords on my website because it is in direct competition with google. I have also gotten my Blogger blog deleted before I owned an advertising website for having traffic exchange sites on it. Do you think it is fair for google to act in this manner? My blog had over 100 followers and had gotten a pagerank of 3 yet it was deleted for being a spam blog. How is it a spam blog when people who find it are looking for the very things I was offering on the blog, more specifically how to get online traffic. Google will ban sites and delete Blogger blogs that have anything on them that will be in direct competition with one of there survices.

It seems that your blog was spammy in Googles yes. Have you read there policy yet?

As with many powerful tools, blogging services can be both used and abused. The ease of creating and updating webpages with Blogger has made it particularly prone to a form of behavior known as link spamming. Blogs engaged in this 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.

Spam blogs cause various problems, beyond simply wasting a few seconds of your time when you happen to come across one. They can clog up search engines, making it difficult to find real content on the subjects that interest you. They may scrape content from other sites on the web, using other people's writing to make it look as though they have useful information of their own. And if an automated system is creating spam posts at an extremely high rate, it can impact the speed and quality of the service for other, legitimate users.

Continued at: http://support.google.com/blogger/bi...n&answer=42577

Do you have any proof that Google deletes blogs that are in competition with them? I'm talking about high ranking quality blogs. I understand that if my blog was deleted i'd be very upset but you need to review bloggers rules and find out what you did wrong and perhaps do a redesign of your blog if you can get it back.

Have a look at the blogger policies. http://support.google.com/blogger/bi...en&topic=12467

Google don't like link schemes: http://support.google.com/webmasters...n&answer=66356

[Moola Mails]

Originally Posted by snakeair

It seems that your blog was spammy in Googles yes. Have you read there policy yet?

My blog was original content about getting online traffic from traffic exchanges and cheap traffic from PTC sites. Only one link to each site was offered and considering it got over 100 followers I consider it to be a good tool for people who came across it. Proof that Google deleted blogs that are in competition, just make a blog about a PTC site or traffic exchange and report it, it will soon be gone.

[Jim Gillum]

Whoever owns the ball and the field....gets to set the rules of the game......

[stephengfm]

Originally Posted by Jim Gillum

Whoever owns the ball and the field....gets to set the rules of the game......

Jesus Christ owns the ball and the field. He sets the rules of the game.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

[robjones]

No, Jesus doesn't own Blogger. Just take my word for it.

As has been stated, if you want control, don't put your site on Google's freebie platform. If you put a site there you've abdicated control to them.

[stephengfm]

Originally Posted by robjones

No, Jesus doesn't own Blogger. Just take my word for it.

I wasn't implying that Jesus Christ owns Blogger.

I meant to imply that Blogger operates in a world will be forced to comply with Christ's teachings on the treatment of others.

[robjones]

I meant to imply that Blogger operates in a world will be forced to comply with Christ's teachings on the treatment of others.

Jesus hasnt been forcing businesses to comply with his teachings for the last 2000 years and the Bible doesn't suggest that's his policy... so your contention appears to be incorrect. Save stuff like that for the lobby and stick to business issues in the working threads.

[stephengfm]

Contention #1

Originally Posted by robjones

the Bible doesn't suggest that's his policy...

Response:
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, (Philippians 2:10)

Contention #2

Originally Posted by robjones

Jesus hasnt been forcing businesses to comply with his teachings for the last 2000 years

Response:
Before Blogger was Microsoft, Before Microsoft was IBM, ... Before IBM was AT&T, Long before AT&T was Solomon and David.

[snakeair]

Let's get back on topic everyone. Thread is turning into a religon thread. I'm praying to get this thread back on topic.

Google has guidelines and policies written for blogger. If your site is removed then you must of violated one of there policies. Complaining on a webmaster forum won't bring your blog back. It's your job to read the fine print and figure out if you actually did violate there guidelines. If you did, ask to get the blog reinstated to fix the issues or create a new blog following there rules.

I went with a self hosted WordPress blog because i don't have to worry about Google deleting my blog, i just have to worry about being deindexed.

[stephengfm]

Originally Posted by snakeair

I went with a self hosted WordPress blog because i don't have to worry about Google deleting my blog, i just have to worry about being deindexed.

I can see the value in controlling your own information, such that no one except your hosting company can delete your blog.

The waste of time and resources would be immense on a personal level.

What self-hosting service did you use?

[robjones]

There are a gajillion hosting choices, the one Snake used isnt as important as the fact that he didnt use Google's freebie and expect full control.

[snakeair]

Originally Posted by stephengfm

I can see the value in controlling your own information, such that no one except your hosting company can delete your blog.

The waste of time and resources would be immense on a personal level.

What self-hosting service did you use?

True and since i'm a member of the studiopress family, i decided to host my blog with there custom web hosting for there framework.

http://websynthesis.com

Before i had hostgator and once i got my account suspended because i sent a mass email out but went over the limit for emails sent in 1 day. I didn't read that fine print but got account back after putting the knee pads on.

I have more freedom now with my host.

I do have a blogger account but never setup a blog yet. After creating the account I noticed there guidelines wouldn't suite me at all so i made the investment in self hosted 4 years ago.

[Moola Mails]

I just told my story, simple as that. I see there are members here that just want to confront others for whatever reason they have. I just told my story and put it into my point of view. The blog is gone as a spam blog even though there was no spam on it, it served to help people who found it as it only got found by people who where looking for information to it. It as been deleted for a long time and was online way before Google started deleting PTC and traffic blogs for no reason other than they are in competition with Google.

[qhoster]

You may reconsider changing something on your blog. After the Pinguin update that Google released you need a lot of social bookmarking. Try to rewrite some of the blog's articles and may be create own Wordpress layout and web design instead of using a ready one.

[stephengfm]

Originally Posted by qhoster

You may reconsider changing something on your blog. After the Pinguin update that Google released you need a lot of social bookmarking. Try to rewrite some of the blog's articles and may be create own Wordpress layout and web design instead of using a ready one.

What facts do you have to support your opinion on social bookmarking?

[Moola Mails]

Originally Posted by qhoster

You may reconsider changing something on your blog. After the Pinguin update that Google released you need a lot of social bookmarking. Try to rewrite some of the blog's articles and may be create own Wordpress layout and web design instead of using a ready one.

The blog was deleted by Google for having sites that deal with getting traffic which are in direct competition with Google.

[robjones]

In your own words... " It as been deleted for a long time". Not sure how this is supposed to be a meaningful conversation. I got a traffic ticket in 2005 and it wasnt fair, but I dont think starting a thread about it is going to change it.

Meanwhile, on yur present sites, if you dont like having to follow Google's TOS, dont use googles free products or advertising programs. Problem solved. If you choose to use them, it's your call, so why complain?

[ScriptMan]

Originally Posted by stephengfm

Jesus Christ owns the ball and the field. He sets the rules of the game.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

While I very much agree with Snakeair that this is not the proper thread for a religious discussion, I can not let your comment pass without responding. Frankly I think Mama ought to kick both our butts and move these comments to a new thread.

You, I and Google have the free will to do as we please. Jesus suggested proper behavior. He may have set the rules of of conduct for salvation; that has little or no impact on how people or businesses conduct themselves unless they believe salvation is more important that the the almighty dollar. One might correctly call that dollar a false idol; that would be a good discussion for another thread. It is not one we should discuss here.