Don't Backup Your Blogs, Past Times Duplicating Them

THis month, nosotros bring several reports inwards Blogger Help Forum: Get Help amongst an Issue from owners who brand backup blogs.

Why was my weblog deleted, past times Blogger, every bit spam?

Some weblog owners innocently create multiple blogs, to dorsum upwards their master copy blog.

Unfortunately, having multiple blogs amongst the same content may brand the blogs hold off similar a spam weblog farm - together with Blogger detects together with deletes spam weblog farms.

I've been advising weblog owners, for years, that Blogger blogs withdraw informative, interesting, together with unique content, to live every bit Blogger blogs.

Scraped blogs - whether you lot scrape your own, or closed to other person's - are a bad idea.

The full general focus on "unique" is intended to discourage scraping. Blogger Help: Spam, phishing, or malware on Blogger discusses spam blogs.

Spam blogs travail diverse problems, beyond only wasting a few seconds of your fourth dimension when you lot plough over off to come upwards across one. They tin transportation away clog upwards search engines, making it hard to divulge existent content on the subjects that involvement you. They may scrape content from other sites on the web, using other people's writing to arrive hold off every bit though they bring useful data of their own. And if an automated arrangement is creating spam posts at an extremely high rate, it tin transportation away deport upon the speed together with character of the service for other, legitimate users.

In the past, Blogger has been focusing on weblog owners who pocket the move of other weblog owners, ie, "scraping" - or who re-create past times permission, ie, "syndication".

Blogger Content policy defines scraping to a greater extent than explicitly.

Examining use closed to of the clones, every bit clones - both to backup each other, together with to boost search engine results.

Duplication of content, online, hastens classification every bit spam.

Backing upwards a Blogger weblog genuinely duplicates Bloggers efforts. Blogger / Google stores content - ie, your weblog - inwards a cloud of servers, worldwide. If whatsoever ane server goes out of service, the others are there, to render immediate backup. You will, likely, never fifty-fifty notice if whatsoever ane Blogger server goes down.

Alternately, a weblog possessor powerfulness backup a weblog because of the spammer publicised unfair weblog deletion policy. Here, the weblog possessor is playing into the spammers hands. If backup blogs were permitted, spammers could seat out their spam weblog farms amongst impunity.

Here, what the weblog possessor wants to conception for past times having duplicates, unfair deletion, genuinely hastens the unfair deletion. This volition happen, fifty-fifty if you lot make the "backup" weblog private.

Classification of duplicate content, every bit abuse, isn't spurious.

If you lot scream back virtually it, a weblog classified every bit spam, because of multiple clones, isn't genuinely spuriously deleted. If your weblog gets a spurious classification, every bit a possible spam host, you lot bring to appeal the classification. Creating a novel blog, amongst identical content, exactly makes you lot hold off similar a non repentant spammer - together with increases your vulnerability.

If you lot desire to retain comments together with posts, export to an offline file. Just don't spread duplicate content across the Internet.