█ How to Avoid Your Blogger from Being Marked As Spam

A few months ago many bloggers woke up to find that their BlogSpot blogs had been locked and marked as spam. Now while Blogger did admit their mistake and restored all accounts that had been mistakenly marked as such, it caused a huge panic among bloggers that they too might have their blogs locked or marked. So much so that many people that previously used Blogger quickly moved to WordPress to avoid this happening again.

But this panic has been blown out of proportion. Blogger is still a great place to host your blogs ( as I hope ) and you can still use it to full advantage and avoid your Blogger blog being marked as spam.

Firstly what does Blogger classify as spam? Any blog that contains irrelevant or nonsensical text (often repeating certain keyphrases over and over again) that is full of links all pointing to a single site. People use them to try and give their main site (the site that the blogs link to) more backlinks. However they are usually found pretty quickly and locked or removed. Often they are created by software programs that just pull snippets or scrape content from other websites or articles to make a very large site within minutes all designed to create link spamming.

If you are a legitimate blogger then you don't need to worry. You are able to write reviews about products and place your affiliate links just fine if you follow the rules and make your post informative to the reader. You can add AdSense on your page without any problems if your content is interesting and original. You can even sell products directly from your blog if the product is legitimate and useful.

As long as you use your blog the way they were intended, by you as the author writing about your thoughts, opinions and advice on any topic that interests you then you shouldn't have any problems.

It really comes down to the content you have on your blog and how fresh, original and helpful it is to a reader, because as they say content is king and in this case it'll keep your blog from being marked as spam.

This post was written by: Franklin Manuel

Franklin Manuel is a professional blogger, web designer and front end web developer. Follow him on Twitter