I said earlier DO NOT Delete Your Blog. I will now add to that advice.
DO NOT Rename Your Blog.
At least, do not rename your blog using the simple Dashboard procedureSettingsPublishingType in new name for "Blog*Spot Address"
as suggested by Blogger For Dummies.
Why? Redirect Trouble Renaming your blog, without leaving a stub behind, is the same as deleting your blog. The old name is available to the spammers. If you decide, in the future, that the old name was better, you'll likely find that name unavailable.
We know the bad guys are actively hijacking deleted blogs, to recycle the search engine visibility that they have gathered.
From the problems discovered to date, it's pretty certain that they are using automated techniques - not just searching by hand.
It's pretty likely that any computers being used for the searching are hijacked, ie bots.
The reliablity of individual bots is pretty low. Bots are Lossy. At any time, a botted computer might be:Cleaned up by th…
DO NOT Rename Your Blog.
At least, do not rename your blog using the simple Dashboard procedureSettingsPublishingType in new name for "Blog*Spot Address"
as suggested by Blogger For Dummies.
Why? Redirect Trouble Renaming your blog, without leaving a stub behind, is the same as deleting your blog. The old name is available to the spammers. If you decide, in the future, that the old name was better, you'll likely find that name unavailable.
We know the bad guys are actively hijacking deleted blogs, to recycle the search engine visibility that they have gathered.
From the problems discovered to date, it's pretty certain that they are using automated techniques - not just searching by hand.
It's pretty likely that any computers being used for the searching are hijacked, ie bots.
The reliablity of individual bots is pretty low. Bots are Lossy. At any time, a botted computer might be:Cleaned up by th…