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Google Blogger is a very popular blog publishing platform. Millions of blogs run on Blogger. It is a free service designed for communication, self-expression and freedom of speech. But while that stands, Google also has to uphold its image of quality and safety for its users. If a blogger violates Google’s quality guidelines, then Google will take action against that Blogger blog to protect its users.

Recently I noticed that some of reputed blogs were deleted by blogger. A lots of people asking in Blogger Help Forum that why their blog was suspended or deleted, even when they didn’t do anything wrong. Well, there must be something they were doing, which is why Google had to do it. In this post, I ll share what things go against Google’s policies, and which things you must avoid to stay safe & protect your blog.

Hate Speech:

Google want you to use Blogger to express your opinions, even very controversial ones. But, don’t cross the line by publishing hate speech. By this, we mean content that promotes hate or violence towards groups based on race, ethnicity, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status or sexual orientation/gender identity. For example, don’t write a blog saying that members of Race X are criminals or advocating violence against followers of Religion Y.

Crude Content:

Don’t post content just to be shocking or graphic. For example, collections of close-up images of gunshot wounds or accident scenes without additional context or commentary would violate this policy.

Violence:

Don’t threaten other people on your blog. For example, don’t post death threats against another person or group of people and don’t post content encouraging your readers to take violent action against another person or group of people.

Adult Content:

Google do allow adult content on Blogger, including images or videos that contain nudity or sexual activity. But, please mark your blog as ‘adult’ in your Blogger settings. Otherwise, blogger may put it behind a ‘mature content’ interstitial.

There are some exceptions to blogger's adult content policy:

• Do not use Blogger as a way to make money on adult content. For example, don’t create blogs where a significant percentage of the content is ads or links to commercial porn sites.
• No incest or bestiality content: Blogger do not allow image, video or text content that depicts or encourages incest or bestiality.

Child safety:

Google have a zero tolerance policy towards content that exploits children. Some examples of this include:

• Child Pornography: Google will terminate the accounts of any user who publishing or distributing child pornography. Google will also report that user to the authorities.
• Paedophilia: Google do not allow content that encourages or promotes sexual attraction towards children. For example, do not create blogs with galleries of images of children where the collection of images or text accompanying the images is sexually suggestive.

Violence

It is Google’s policy to respond to clear notices of alleged copyright infringement. More information about our copyright procedures can be found here. Also, please don’t provide links to sites where your readers can obtain unauthorised downloads of other people’s content.

Personal and confidential information:

It’s not ok to publish another person’s personal and confidential information. For example, don’t post someone else’s credit card numbers, Social Security numbers, unlisted phone numbers and driver’s licence numbers. Also, please bear in mind that in most cases, information that is already available elsewhere on the Internet or in public records is not considered to be private or confidential under our policies.

Impersonating others:

Please don’t mislead or confuse readers by pretending to be someone else or pretending to represent an organisation when you don’t. We’re not saying that you can’t publish parody or satire – just avoid content that is likely to mislead readers about your true identity.

Illegal activities:

Don’t use Blogger to engage in illegal activities or to promote dangerous and illegal activities. For example, don’t author a blog encouraging people to drink and drive. Otherwise, blogger may delete your content. Also, in serious cases such as those involving the abuse of children, blogger may report you to the appropriate authorities.

Spam Detection:

Spam takes several forms in Blogger, all of which can result in deletion of your account or blog. Some examples include creating blogs designed to drive traffic to your site or to move it up in search listings, posting comments on other people’s blogs just to promote your site or product and scraping existing content from other sources for the primary purpose of generating revenue or other personal gains.

When a blog is subject to “Spam” classification, the blog will be displayed in the “Deleted blogs” dashboard list. The owner can do nothing, except request “Restore”.

If the blog remains in “Deleted” status for over 48 hours, the blog owner may report this in the help forums, and may request a manual review. The forum helpers, and online viewers, will generally see the blog displayed as “Removed”.

Malware and viruses Detection:

Do not create blogs that transmit viruses, cause pop-ups, attempt to install software without the reader’s consent or otherwise impact readers with malicious code. This is strictly forbidden on Blogger.

From Editor’s Desk:-

We know if you lost your blog by these possible reasons then you have lost your entire hard work. I suggest you Don’t leave your blog‘s link on other people’s blog comment form because if the blog owner mark your comment as spam then your blog link automatically submitted to blogger for spamming.

So avoid these above things to stay safe & always take backup of you content every week. Please respect Google’s content policies & don’t violate their T&C because its better then lost your blog & reputation.