Blogger Kills Adult Blogs
• Amorous Web, Cyber Sex , • BDSM
For a longish time many adult webmasters have been creating Blogger accounts as a way to promote their sites. I've never paid much attention to it but I've seen a few who've created a couple of dozen more babe and beefcake blogs and linked them all together as a sort of search engine optimization.
My main annoyance with these folks was that they were in the forefront of comment and referrer spam. The comment spam forces me to moderate most replies made here, a task I'd rather not have to perform but I'm not going to have my pages filled up with advertising by people who don't know how to do proper SEO. (The referral log spam has made my site logs useless. The logs are filled with illusory, bogus 'visitors.')
Blogger's management is removing adult blogs. Being a private organization that is there right. Censorship isn't an issue. If the webmasters earn decent revenue at all they can pay for webhosting, install WordPress and keep on going. I wouldn't be surprised if being out of the blogger.com domain might prove better for them. (Like, say, Lavender Lounge of QueerClick.)
Not all of them are gone but it sounds as if they are being killed as they are found.
There are lots of good personal sex blogs hosted by Blogger. I hope they folks who kindly share their sexuality with the rest of us don't get hit by this. Some of them probably don't have the money or time to setup a standalone site or pay for something like TypePad.
Source: I think Blogger.com just canxed Adult
Later: I've written up a short list of options for those of you who may be Thinking About Taking Your Adult Blog Off Blogger?
Comments
can you leave me a post in my blog and let me know if this would be offensive? they are stories—fiction! to blogger?
thanks bundles! valentine this isn’t spam, and I appreciate your kindness and intelligence.
Posted by: valentine | October 11, 2005 02:34 PM
You don’t have the kind of site Blogger is currently deleting. Those are mostly just fronts for porn sites.
I think you are safe unless they decide to go after all adult content.
Honestly, I couldn’t imagine letting a third party control my site.
Best of luck.
Posted by: Richard | October 11, 2005 02:44 PM
If they are removing them then they’re terribly slow at it. I’ve flagged countless porn blogs on blogger, as well as written them to tell them about them…and not one is removed. How odd.
Posted by: Aaron | November 10, 2005 06:47 AM
Sounds like they zapped pantiespantiespanties which isn’t a porn splog. So I wonder how well the Blogger employees are able to distinguish between blogs that are legitimate personal expression and splogs.
If SEOs and sploggers wanting to wipe out competition are reporting lots of porn blogs the Blogger folks may just be running behind.
Posted by: Richard | November 10, 2005 06:55 AM
Legitimate sex blogs are being removed from Blogger every day.
If you care about what you are doing move elsewhere: TypePad, setup your own site, anything before your work is gone and buried.
Posted by: Dr. Sexology | November 16, 2005 06:42 PM
I’m not sure they’re removing much of the porn blogs at all. In fact, there are now blogs with BEASTIALITY that have been flagged OVER and OVER and they still remain on Blogger!
I give Google a big, fat F in this respect. I mean, what about the kids who click on the “Next Blog” link and suddenly see a porn or beastiality blog?!? What a shame.
Posted by: Anonymous | December 6, 2005 01:09 AM
I know of at least one person (a friend) who seems to have had ALL his blogs deleted (no warning). None of them were porn sites or ‘fronts’. They did however have sexually explicit stories (fiction).
Posted by: The Dating Coach | February 10, 2007 02:47 PM