The Blog Hog

Google Continues to be Unfair - Now With Blogger

December 3rd, 2007 by admin

Google has continued to show that they don’t care about bloggers in the blogosphere.  First, they take page rank away from all of the hard working paid bloggers, now I read an article where they are smacking down on Blogger as well.

I just read a post on Lifecruiser where Blogger (which is owned by Google) is no longer allowing the external linking feature when posting comments.  If you do not have a Google/Blogger account, forget being able to put your link in.  This is what Lifecruiser had to say:

“Instead of earlier when you could click the “other” option, you can now only give in a nickname option - no link to your blog. Even if you write http://www.lifecruiser.com it won’t turn it into a link, not even if you place the a href code there.

This also means that YOU as a blogger.com blog owner can’t easily follow up your commentors either - as long as we don’t leave you a link in the comment body or is on your blogroll already. I’m only waiting for the day when they try to stop you from linking to us at all…”

Bloggers all over utilize commenting and linking to their blogs via other blogs in order to help improve their page rank and other social networks on the net.  It appears as though Google is getting very greedy in what they will and will not allow and in the long run it is only going to hurt them.

Unfortunately, I do have a blog set up on Blogger as a cancer blog for my BIL.  It is mainly only read by family and friends and I’m not trying to really advertise it a lot.  I feel like moving it now though because of all of this Google/Blogger mess.