~ Google’s New Motto: Do Evil?
Google has now decided that if you don’t have a Blogspot blog, you can’t leave your own website’s url OR email when commenting on Blogspot blogs! You can comment as an Anonymous, or using a nickname, but God forbid if Google is going to link to a blog outside their own universe!
What this means is, Google is preventing back links from comments to blogs, they are reducing a blogger’s exposure and ultimately his PageRank! they are treating bloggers as if they were spam. Like they mean nothing.
when a person comments on my blog, I tend to check out his website, using the link he leaves through his name, This is now impossible with blogspot bogs, many people don’t own a blogspot blog, and it would be just ridiculous to ask a person to create a blogspot blog just to put a link on it to his owned blog on his own domain! very unpractical and lame!
What’s going on Google? :???:
Hat Tip: mummifiedtimesfive.net
December 1st, 2007 at 1:00 pm
Thanks for republishing my post here on your blog with a link back to my blog.
December 1st, 2007 at 1:07 pm
mummifiedx5: For sure, This is out right outrageous! :mad:
December 1st, 2007 at 1:07 pm
and I was wondering what all that’s about!! truly evil!
December 1st, 2007 at 1:41 pm
I wondered what was going on…fye on them!
Hey Bakkouz, what’s with the NC-17 rated adverts from John Q TV? :S
December 1st, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Kinzi: damn that John Q!! I thought i blocked those, I’ll take care of it, sorry bout that. :oops:
December 1st, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Thanks Bakkouz, hope you don’t mind me mentioning it, you know, acting like blog-porn-patrol or something. :)
December 1st, 2007 at 4:49 pm
Yeah, I noticed this today and I don’t care for it. Luckily I have a Blogspot blog that can be linked to, but I no longer update it since I switched over to Wordpress.
December 1st, 2007 at 4:55 pm
San7oh… bel na2e9
I just like commenting here the smilies are awesome
December 1st, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Ah, I found a way around it
http://olaeliwat.blogspot.com/
December 1st, 2007 at 5:19 pm
Kinzi: Not at all.
Dave: I do have a blogspot too, but be that as it may, this is just ridiculous :???:
Ola: Shatoora inti :grin:
December 1st, 2007 at 7:51 pm
i also have blog spot since 2005 , and used it now for such thing
its really eww
any way
“(new comment)” what exactly mean ??
and man i guess ur website today slower than before
December 1st, 2007 at 7:56 pm
Qabbani: Since i use a Do-Follow policy on my blog, New comments on recent posts are logged and identified as new comments, with the no-follow tag still attached to it, but for only a period of time, this is to identify comment spam from authentic comments :)
As for blogspot, Its not having or not having a blogspot account, the issue here, is why does Google deny us from using out own URL’s for our own websites?!
December 1st, 2007 at 8:13 pm
The hands of evil continue to spread…
This is plain… evil.
December 1st, 2007 at 8:43 pm
I wouldn’t call that evil. I was surprised they let you do that to begin with.
In any case, I still have my independant blog linked on my blogspot/Blogger profile, what seems to be the problem ?
December 1st, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Hani: This is not about linking blogs, or being able to comment or not, Google is preventing backlinks from comments to blogs, they are treating bloggers as if they were spam! they are reducing a blogger’s exposure and ultimately his PageRank!
I should add that to the post :)
December 1st, 2007 at 10:06 pm
I have said this a million times before. I don’t trust google. Stuff like this prove it!
Anyway, you can set the forwarding on a blogspot blog. But it sucks because you’ll always be referred to a stupid intermediate page
I was going to write about it too .. thanks for mentioning it
Ba3dain ta3al hon. When I told you about the ads you played a huge drama queen, but when Khalto Kinzi complained you became a nice little kid … sho ya bakkoz?
December 2nd, 2007 at 12:07 am
:shock: Ohhhhh, that is terrible. I usually use the link in the commentor’s name even more often than I use the links in my blogroll.
December 5th, 2007 at 12:58 am
Google started the concept that the more links pointing to a site, the more important it is. To stand their ground, they are doing everything possible to stop people abusing this concept. From nofollow to not allowing links other than those of blogspot blogs!
December 8th, 2007 at 8:14 am
This is funny I think. But weren’t the links in the name no-follow already? It doesn’t change much. And I guess it will become standard to post your website as a signature in comments. Like that :
GossipGuy
http://www.gozzipz.com/
December 8th, 2007 at 10:36 am
Well, GossipGuy’s suggestion is the only alternative left to me, and that would really make me look like spam, now, wouldn’t it?
Google is starting to seriously annoy me.
First their “Oh, of course you can still use your old Blogger account, but if you actually try and comment with it or access the workings of your own blog, we’ll give you the update to Google account page and nothing else” made me give them the finger and switch to Wordpress (which is way better anyway, especially if you can spare a bit of money and rent server space).
I made my old blog forward visitors to my new one in the last few moments it was still possible to access my Blogger blog by deleting every Blogspot and Google cookie (and cursing and going back and deleting them again - and again) before entering the dashboard.
So linking to the old blog would point ppl to the new one.
But. I can’t link to the old one anymore. The glory days are gone. I can keep on deleting cookies and emptying my browser’s history until doomsday, Google does not accept my account anymore, so I can’t comment/link under my old Blogger name.
So, if someone only allows Google/Blogger comments I can’t comment on their blogs at all.
And now ppl can’t even go and check out my blog anymore if they were impressed by my brilliant comments. ;) (The smiley being for the brilliant comments; I am by no means amused at Google’s new scheme.)
There is another point which I have come to hate these days. If you block a troll on your blog and didn’t know you have to explicitely forbid Google to make cached pages of your blog, Google offers that troll a wonderful pathway onto your server still. Using Google cache obviously masks your IP for all practical purposes.
I’ve had a troll spending a merry day connecting to my server that way to go on reading.
Thank you, Google.
Oh, and hello btw. :)
December 9th, 2007 at 6:20 am
well actually that so nice from google
i think the whole internet will be for them soon :twisted:
but oh my god i love google he give me such many free stuff :roll:
well the all now think its a blogroll party! wow!!
hehehe why i aint put my blog too :)!
December 14th, 2007 at 9:00 am
I think the issue has been resolved
….. it seems its worked out for the better :?:
June 16th, 2008 at 8:14 pm