Search Engine Optimization Discussion Forum     General SEO discussion     Building Link Popularity         Social Media         Feeds     Website Meta Tags         Titles         Descriptions         Keywords     Image Alt Tags     Content Optimization     SEO News, Articles, and Feeds     General Website Development         HTML         Flash         PHP         Javascript     eCommerce Optimization         Feeds         Shopping Networks     Buy, Sell or Trade Web Services         Programming         SEO         Graphic Design Search Engine Specific Search Optimization     SEO for Yahoo     SEO for Google     SEO for MSN     SEO for other Search Engines    »User: »Password:   Remember Me?  SEO-Board Forums / Search Engine Optimization Discussion Forum / Building Link Popularity / Google does it again..... Pages: 1 Posted:  04 Dec 2007 06:22 Registered User Currently Offline Posts:  142 Join Date: Sep 2007 Now, comments from those without blogs on Blogger/Blogspot, Google's blog site, cannot leave their links. Only links that go to blogs on Google's blog service are allowed links. Between the PR scandal a few weeks ago, the tightening of standards for legitimate click throughs on Adsense, and now the change with the blogs, it looks like Google means to limit how much money any one person or small business can make by limiting the ways one can spread the word about their product or service. Since this will limit the numbers of people taking time to comment on Google hosted blogs, do you see an exodus to other blogging platforms or do you think business bloggers will simply move to self hosting, and maintain their reader base? Posted:  06 Dec 2007 12:44   Last Edited By: annerz Registered User Currently Offline Posts:  29 Join Date: Nov 2007 blogger was great when it was still the original blogger.com. i don't see it progressed that much when google bought it. self-hosted blogs, like that of wordpress, are becoming popular these days, and google's threatened by it, so they want to strengthen now their loyal supporters. time to find a new home now, if i were those bloggers. Posted:  06 Dec 2007 20:29   Last Edited By: Slingshot Registered User Currently Offline Posts:  142 Join Date: Sep 2007 I am seeing lots of posts with bloggers starting to move away from their dependency on Google, where they can.  One of the paid links sites has set up its own rating system for blogs, ridding bloggers the need to have a Google PR above a certain level. I am sure that more bloggers will self host and that some of the larger blog networks will start hosting blogs themselves.  All they have to do is avoid being bought out by Google or Yahoo once they really get going. Posted:  09 Dec 2007 11:58 Registered User Currently Offline Posts:  29 Join Date: Nov 2007 i used to like bloogger's services so much. but now, no more Posted:  07 Mar 2008 00:56 Registered User Currently Offline Posts:  16 Join Date: Mar 2008 Ah, google is at it again.  We need more and more people to move away from using only google or they will have complete control of the blog market. Posted:  08 Mar 2008 06:33 Registered User Currently Offline Posts:  61 Join Date: Feb 2008 Well, you better hope that Google and Yahoo don't go to the merger.  Last I heard they were either talking are arguing about merging.  Somebody's going to have a nice monopoly. __________________ Start-Up Phase, resources to help your new business grow! http://www.startupphase.com/forums/index.php Posted:  09 Mar 2008 15:11 Registered User Currently Offline Posts:  31 Join Date: Feb 2008 Oh, I didn't know much about google's blogger as it is only now that i have created an account with it, thanks for this thread it has helped me and be enlightened about it. Posted:  16 Mar 2008 17:04 Registered User Currently Offline Posts:  56 Join Date: Mar 2008 This is a bit stupid I have to say, but Google have beginning to have a monepaly and this is the way it's going now these days. Let's face it, Google wants to stop people using their own Blogging Software and encourage them using Google's. I think Google really need to improve their own software and add more features if they expect this to happen. Posted:  28 Mar 2008 05:08 Registered User Currently Offline Posts:  53 Join Date: Sep 2007 Well, spam in comments was definitely a problem but comment moderation removes that risk entirely.  It's very difficult to have a meaningful discussion without links.. this is a mistake. Pages: 1

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