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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"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Are e-Commerce Blogs Considered Spam Blogs by Blogger? | The Web Authority<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2009\/06\/15\/are-e-commerce-blogs-considered-spam-blogs-by-blogger\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Are e-Commerce Blogs Considered Spam Blogs by Blogger? | The Web Authority\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Blogger has a new protocol, if they think that your blog is spam, they lock it. 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