Erotic Bloggers Working For Google Are Screwed

Writing by Nick Stamoulis Tweet

If you are a blogger writing adult content on Blogspot, a free blog host owned by Google, a new policy will likely shut you out of the search engine results. I’ve warned people against using Blogspot for some time now. Evidently, here’s another reason not to use Blogspot, particularly if you are running a business blog.

You may think that this won’t affect your business, but what’s to stop Google from instituting other policies that could have a similar affect on all businesses?

Here’s the issue: If you write adult content then children can access it – unless, of course, they have to login and “prove” they are adult. To make that happen, Google has had to install scripts to force people to sign in and prove they are adults. The search spiders, however, can’t get past the script. Therefore, your content won’t get crawled and indexed.

What should you do?

Well, you could wait until Google fixes the problem, but I wouldn’t recommend it. Every day that your blog goes uncrawled is one day closer to being de-indexed. That will result in a drop off of traffic and some of that fall out may not come back after your blog is re-indexed (if is ever is). I’d recommend that you get your own domain name and install WordPress. If you own the property then you control it. Problem solved.