{"id":968,"date":"2009-06-15T05:41:50","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T09:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/?p=968"},"modified":"2009-05-03T18:58:45","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T22:58:45","slug":"are-e-commerce-blogs-considered-spam-blogs-by-blogger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2009\/06\/15\/are-e-commerce-blogs-considered-spam-blogs-by-blogger\/","title":{"rendered":"Are e-Commerce Blogs Considered Spam Blogs by Blogger?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blogger has a new protocol, if they think that your blog is spam, they lock it. That&#8217;s right, lock it.<\/p>\n<p>We have an e-commerce client who happens to sell new issue stamps and we blog three days a week for him about interesting stamps, stamp trivia, stories about stamps, and cool information that you might not know about particular stamps. Blogger has decided that the blog is a &#8220;spam blog&#8221; as all links point to his website (to products) as do many e-commerce blogs.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Blogger has threatened to delete the blog if we do not request a review. It has now been two weeks since we requested a review. In fact actually the second time we requested a review as Blogger forgot after one week that we had already requested a review once. There is no time frame on the review, just the threat to delete the blog.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally now to publish a post on the blog, we have to enter a series of letter or numbers into a field, proving that we are real humans not robots posting to this blog. I have to say that this is annoying but to the nth degree. All of our content is unique and not scraped. If there was ever a good reason to move to WordPress, this is it.<\/p>\n<p>I understand that no one wants to read spam, but I feel that Blogger is being heavy handed here. They should have instituted a timely review process before they slapped down interesting content rich blogs!<\/p>\n<p>In fact you can check the blog out to review it for yourself here at <a title=\"This is not a spam blog!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stampcenter.com\/blog\/blogger.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Stamp Collectors Corner<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogger has a new protocol, if they think that your blog is spam, they lock it. That&#8217;s right, lock it. We have an e-commerce client who happens to sell new issue stamps and we blog three days a week for him about interesting stamps, stamp trivia, stories about stamps, and cool information that you might not know about particular stamps. Blogger has decided that the blog is a &#8220;spam blog&#8221; as all links point to his website (to products) as do many e-commerce blogs. As a result, Blogger has threatened to delete the blog if we do not request a review. It has now been two weeks since we requested a review. In fact actually the second time we requested a review as Blogger forgot after one week that we had already requested a review once. There is no time frame on the review, just the threat to delete the blog. Additionally now to publish a post on the blog, we have to enter a series of letter or numbers into a field, proving that we are real humans not robots posting to this blog. I have to say that this is annoying but to the nth degree. All of our content is unique and not scraped. If there was ever a good reason to move to WordPress, this is it. I understand that no one wants to read spam, but I feel that Blogger is being heavy handed here. They should have instituted a timely review process before they slapped down interesting content rich blogs! In fact you can check the blog out to review it for yourself here at The Stamp Collectors Corner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[184,177,438],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","tag-blogger","tag-blogs","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}