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when does inactive blogs are deleted in blogger, wordpress?

by prouser02
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I couldn't find the answer on their website so can someone tell me please when does inactive blogs are deleted in blogger, wordpress without any editing for a long time or a new post or signing in for a long time?
#blogger #blogs #deleted #inactive #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author bgmacaw
    I don't think they are, at least not very quickly. I've purchased older expiring domains that had good existing links from WordPress.com and Blogger sites from at least as early as 2004 and that haven't been updated since 2006-2008.
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  • Profile picture of the author InternetMarketingIQ
    Every third Sunday after the second full moon.

    Housekeeping by the companies that run the sites could tell you, but what is their incentive?
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    • Profile picture of the author prouser02
      Originally Posted by InternetMarketingIQ View Post

      Every third Sunday after the second full moon.

      Housekeeping by the companies that run the sites could tell you, but what is their incentive?
      Are you serious about "Every third Sunday after the second full moon."? Because I don't quite understand what you mean? So go ahead, explain.
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      • Profile picture of the author Jonathan Ferraro
        Originally Posted by prouser02 View Post

        Are you serious about "Every third Sunday after the second full moon."? Because I don't quite understand what you mean? So go ahead, explain.

        I think he's being sarcastic. I can say from my own experience, when I was first starting out, I had a bunch of junky, ugly blogger sites, and they are still up and running several years later, so go figure.
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    • Profile picture of the author TerrieS
      No, no - it's every second Sunday after the third full moon.

      Originally Posted by InternetMarketingIQ View Post

      Every third Sunday after the second full moon.

      Housekeeping by the companies that run the sites could tell you, but what is their incentive?
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      • Profile picture of the author Elle Holder
        I've got a blogspot that I haven't updated in a year and a half. It still has a PR4, still gets traffic, and Google still crawls it regularly.

        As far as I know--at least for blogspot--the account is yours until you delete it. Unless of course, there is some TOS issue, then Google will delete it for you!
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        • Profile picture of the author Glenn Leader
          Originally Posted by ElleJ View Post

          I've got a blogspot that I haven't updated in a year and a half. It still has a PR4, still gets traffic, and Google still crawls it regularly.

          As far as I know--at least for blogspot--the account is yours until you delete it. Unless of course, there is some TOS issue, then Google will delete it for you!
          Clearly your blog offers great value, and you probably
          have lots of good organic backlinks to it.. It's well
          known that blogs that are just allowed to go without
          occasional updates get deleted. It doesn't take much
          work, probably 5 minutes a month will keep these blogs
          alive. It's pretty much the same for WordPress blogs
          too.

          HTH

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          • Profile picture of the author Elle Holder
            Originally Posted by Glenn Leader View Post

            Clearly your blog offers great value, and you probably
            have lots of good organic backlinks to it.. It's well
            known that blogs that are just allowed to go without
            occasional updates get deleted. It doesn't take much
            work, probably 5 minutes a month will keep these blogs
            alive. It's pretty much the same for WordPress blogs
            too.
            HTH
            Glenn
            Thanks for pointing this out.

            I'd stopped posting to the blog because of some glitch with it. When I started the blog, it was before Google bought Blogger. I went through the scary change over from old Blogger to new Blogger that messed a lot of people up. But there was something that was never right again. Accessing the blog would hang my machine forever, and I found it was doing the same to my visitors. I finally just made a good bye, so long post, explained about the problems, and moved on. It was time to start buying my own domains, and I've been using wordpress.org ever since.

            However, I do use it for back linking all my new sites to. I'm always rotating links there. So for that alone, maybe I should throw up a new post once in a while to keep it alive.
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      • Profile picture of the author prouser02
        Originally Posted by TerrieS View Post

        No, no - it's every second Sunday after the third full moon.
        oh, okay! Thanks for the clarification! I got all mixed up thinking which sunday: third or the 2nd. But, you no longer need to explain it to me!
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  • Profile picture of the author Glenn Leader
    It's very easy to maintain Blogger and WordPress
    blogs, so why risk letting them go stagnant and
    stale with the possibility of deletion? Even just
    going in once every couple of months, making
    one or two tiny edits, or a simple rewrite will do
    the trick.

    HTH

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  • Profile picture of the author costos gohdohb
    my inactive blogger blog is well and alive, too! - created over 1 year ago

    but I was not so lucky with inactive wordpress blogs - they were closed rather quickly
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  • Profile picture of the author ingomkt
    I setup a blogger blog in 2004 and haven't updated it or anything since 2005. The blog is still active and received traffic from Google every month.
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    • Profile picture of the author sylviad
      Just a wild guess... but I'd suspect that they don't want to go around deleting stale blogs because that would mean doing a complete scan to see how many sites are linked to them. It'd be like taking one link out of a chain - deleting one would affect so many other sites. That includes sites that have quoted something on that blog, links going back to it, continuation of content from one site to the next.

      Like if you delete a post here, if someone else responded to it, that person's post wouldn't make sense.

      The only way the blogs could be safely deleted is if they are relatively new, and even then there's no guarantee.

      You can be sure that Google must get some benefit from people having a lot of blogger accounts.

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