I was trying to contact Alan Leiw today, the owner of moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com blog, regarding some guest blogging issues. Then I think of browsing his blog, just after sending an email to him. But what I see, his blog is no more, it’s gone, and looks like Google deleted it. Don’t know why Google is doing this with such a popular blog in money making niche. This blog used to enjoy top rankings on Google for most of highly searched keywords related to money making niche like make money, making money, make money online, earn money online etc. It was a PR 5 blog having Alexa ranking of 25,306.
Here is a screenshot of this blog showing in Google cache few hours back today (21 Apr 2010) even:
And here is another screenshot of makemoneyinfo blog showing “The blog you were looking for was not found” today:
Google is still showing sitelinks for this domain when I type in moneymakerinfo on google.com. So I’m unable to understand the reason behind deletion of this blog on whom Google shows lots of trust and authority for years. Here is a screenshot showing sitelinks shown by Google for this money making blog by Alan Leiw
Even I send an email to Alan about this hinting him about the situation. But I haven’t got any reply from him on it. Due to all these reasons, I always recommend using your own domain, instead of creating a free blog on Blogger. Otherwise, you have to pay the cost as Alan is paying by losing his blog for no reason. So all of his efforts that he invested for years in creating this blog and all of his earnings coming from this blog are gone.
For me it will be a big loss if Google does not restore this blog. In that case, I will be losing lots of valuable links and traffic coming from this blog. I had blogroll links exchange with Alan blog and had so far get 7-8 of my guest post published on this make money online blog.
What you have so say on it? Frankly speaking, I learnt a lot about making money and blogging related topics from this blog and this blog was covering highest amount of content related to money making niche. So I’m really sad after see what happens with this amazing make money blog. Have you ever been to this blog and how was your impression about this blog and how are you feeling after seeing this Blog not found?
Update
Alan Leiw confirmed Blogger Team deleted his moneymakerinfo blog created on Blogger (Owned by Google) on 21st April 2010
Good News
Good news is that MoneyMakerInfo blog is back on 28th April, 2010. So I’m really happy after seeing this huge money making blog being restored by Google. I sent an email to Alan asking:
Great to see you back. How you are able to get your blog back?
Here is how Alan replied to me:
I contacted the Blogger team and re-enable my Blogger account and then I send a request to them to review my blog and restore. They somehow restore my blog.
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I felt sorry about what happen to Alan’s blog. The author is right when he pointed out to use ones domain instead of creating a free blog on Blogger. We don’t really know the real reason why the blog disappear or was deleted, but as the one investing effort, time, even money, one should realize the risk of committing to a certain free blog.
If I were in your place, I’ll be sad to. The effort done in linking on to the site & gaining traffic from it just slip away. If Google disregards this, Alan will lose a great source of income and not just that, all other sites who linked to Alan’s blog will also lose traffic. Guess Google needs to clarify this issue.
I heard about this issue and became aware of a free blog websites treat which is not secured. Like the place of Alan, the niche that he picked gives him a nice income yet sadly, it just disappear like a blink of an eye. We must continue to be careful in our decision making. We must weigh everything first.
I think, the best solution of this kind of situation is to ask Google about the main issue. Maybe there’s a certain rule that the blog wasn’t able to obeyed, or whatever, there’s always many possibilities, we can only guess. It’s really a big lost…
Hmm thats really interesting. Wierd why they would do that..
it was a great blog !!
This is why I hate blogger so much.I had that experience before.They do not bother to give you a warning.
The thing that save me is having my own domain.Alan was so successful,I don’t know why he was still using free blogspot address.And what is more surprising he probably never back up his blog.This is a big lesson for any one blogging in blogger platform.
Go For Wordpress.
the same blog is back my friend
Yeah, I just checked it, its back again, great to see it back. I even emailed Alan about how he get his blog back from Google, lets see how he responds?
its back !
but not having that much content !
I noticed that as well, it really shocked me to see it disappear like that but thankfully it’s back.
It gives us all a valuable lesson that you can’t trust that hosting your blog on Blogger will stick around when even a large blog such as this can be deindexed.
This is the problem, you will face with lots of free blogging websites. Best strategy will be moving to a self hosted Wordpress blog when you start seeing some potential revenue from your blog. I even would advice Alan to switch from free blog hosted to paid one as that will make his blog even more strong and latest issues like his blog being deleted will be permanently solved.
@admin, Agreed.
Additionally, there are so many benefits from plugins and other support from the Wordpress community which is why it’s such a highly recommended blog platform.
It also shows the importance of having a regular backup of your blog in the event you aren’t so lucky and need to port it over.
It appears that his blog has been de-indexed now. It is still there but isn’t in the google’s index.
Ya looks de-indexed again. This blog was having top rankings for keywords related to making money, but it’s nowhere now in top 10 for those terms