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Originally Posted by fmadison
Well I was never the one to be comfortable building a site on tumblr or any free service... granted you do what you can with what you got for now until you can do the ideal.
I tell all my clients to build their online business as if google did not exist. That meant a good mailing list cultivated over time so no matter what happens with google you are still alive.
I am not saying that building things and getting google traffic doing seo etc... is to be avoided. Just don't put all your eggs in that google basket...
I've seen many business go down when they get delisted or sandboxed by google. it ain't pretty...
Good Luck.
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I totally see and agree with what you are saying. In my case, though, my Blogger site is pretty much for recreational purposes. I use Blogger because it is, far and away, the nicest and most feature-rich of the free hosted platforms out there and they allow adult content. Self-Hosted would be nice but I have
never had a good experience with a budget Shared host that allows adult sites and that's the price range I'm in. That includes HostGator and Certified, both of whom everyone just seems to rave about. All of the budget Shared adult hosts that I've used had slow, over-crowded servers, didn't meet their uptime SLAs and had lackluster support. Aside from being marketable and ultimately profitable, I honestly don't understand why budget Shared hosts allow adult at all because it is the kiss of death in terms of brand reputation as far as I'm concerned. Whether people care to admit it or not, it does draw in a large crowd of users who are looking to do things on the cheap and operate sites that really have no business being in a Shared hosting environment. As a result, everyone else suffers and the guys who use HostGator or whatever for email and to share family pictures wonder why their shit is always down. HawkHost is a perfect example. 4 or 5 years ago, they didn't allow adult and they were one of the best budget hosts out there, the darling of Web Hosting Talk and other forums. Now, I wouldn't even host a static HTML site with them if it meant more than half a shit to me. I do have a semi-dedicated plan with a non-adult host for my other projects but with that being $35/month itself, I just can't justify dropping another $15-$20/month on a adult host I'd be comfortable using for something that is basically just a hobby.
With that in mind, I'd still be salty as hell though if one day, Google, or any provider, swooped down from the sky and 86'ed all of my shit when I wasn't in clear violation of any of their T&Cs. That's what really got me about OP's story. If Google's end-game is to rid Blogger of adult sites, they should just come out and say as much and set a date for people to move out by. This bit with randomly picking people off, and not just their Blogger but their entire Google account, is bullshit.