Is it Possible To Optimise Blogger Blogs

Thanks for your help.
Not quite sure I understand what you mean about the risks though - if you get a couple of minutes sometime perhaps you might be able to give me a heads up on those.
Thanks again.

Does being in blogger result in better rankings?

Short answer yes.

Though I don't use blogger anymore, I must say that I am one of those few people that alexa mentioned who think that you can rank well because Google owns blogger. If you have your blog in blogger, it is really easy to get first page ranking in comparison to having it self hosted. If your blog does not rank, it will usually mean failure to do proper on-site optimization. If you do that properly, you will see your website hit the first page of google quite fast for certain keywords. You should do your keyword research and all the other seo things you would have done if you were in Self-Hosted Wordpress. If you are not ranking in blogger, which gets indexed faster than any self-hosted site, then you will have a harder time getting it ranked in self-hosted wordpress.

You do not have to take my word for this. You will see many blogspot websites showing up in the first page of google these days for top keywords. For example, look up "Personalty Development" a keyword phrase that gets 33,000 Exact global searches according to Google Keyword Tool. In Google.co.uk, I see PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT TIPS & TRICKS in position 4 at the moment. I have turned off personalization. Depending on when you read this and where you read it from, it may or may not be there.That website has only 2 posts to call its own and doesnt even have a page rank. Yet it is there in page 1 of google for a top keyword. What more, the keyword is not even there in the primary URL. It is counsiling.blogspot.co.uk not personalitydevelopment.blogspot.co.uk.


Can your blog get deleted?
Yes. There is a risk of your blog getting deleted. You have to take spam to a whole new level for that usually. I made a 15 autoblogs in blogger that posted 50 ezine articles automatically with a click of a button. I made these 15 autoblogs for each category in Ezine like SEO, Tattoos, Piercing, Email Marketing Etc. These blogs will post 50 posts at a time to each blog at the same time. The urls were even more spammy - searchengineoptimization21.blogspot.com. Of the 15 blogs that I created two years ago, the search engine optimization blog got deleted for being spammy. The other 14 continue to exist even today. These were blogs that I made to explore the possibilities of autoblogging. I have had other legitimate websites in blogger that I later moved to wordpress. I wanted to mention this here because I want you to know that your blog can get deleted and you wont be able to recover it back. But the likelihood of it getting deleted is lesser than the likelihood of your wordpress account getting hacked. My blog in blogger had search engine traffic of 3000 unique visitors per day. Then I moved it to wordpress. Nothing changed except that it was no longer free hosted. The permalinks, the site structure and everything else were the same but my traffic dropped to 1000 unique visitors per day. I had to build back links and do a lot of off site optimization to get my search ranking back. But it is still not like before. I moved it to wordpress because wordpress is a lot easier to use for larger website. Plugins will do the job of things that you have to do manually in blogger. But this is completely fine for smaller niche blogs like yours. If you had over 1000 posts and you want to interlink between posts, then it will be wiser to be in wordpress because you can use plugins that will do all the hard work automatically.

Does Blogger Stop You From Selling Or Monetizing?
You can monetize your website in almost every way you can monetize a self hosted website. But some ad agencies dont accept websites which are in free hosting. They are very few though. If you wanted to sell your website, you can do so by simply importing your blogger blog to self-hosted wordpress by hosting it in a free host like 000webhost.

Why you are not getting ranked?
So to come back to your original question. Are you not getting ranked because you are in blogger? No that is not the reason. You will have a harder time ranking in wordpress. What are you doing wrong?
1. Not doing keyword reasearch
2. Poor on-site optimization.
3. Could use off-site optimization.


Apart from that you could greatly improve your website. Adding subscription option like feedburner email subscription widget and facebook and google+ pages can be a start. There are websites dedicated to helping bloggers who user blogger as a platform. The following are the two main websites: mybloggertricksdotcom and spiceupyourblogdotcom. I recommend you take the time to go through mybloggertricksdotcom in great detail. Both websites use blogger.