The Real Blogger Status

Too many blog owners have been lured into Internet publishing by the promise of easy riches. We see various optimistic promises, in the many blogs reported in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken , under hopeful topics like "Please restore my blog - I don't spam!". If you don't even have a website, there are so many ways to earn money online. You can Get paid to take online surveys, Get paid by reading email, Get paid by surfing the Web etc. You can work from home, without any knowledge about building websites at all. Here, we've put together a list of the best, and the most popular money making methods seen today. We try to cover all methods and companies, which give various kinds of offers for making money online. Making money online is a dream for many people in this world - but it's not hard as you might think. The person who wrote this blog introduction is probably not the first to believe this, nor will he be the last. He's just one more. ...

The World Wide Web - the most popular service that runs on the Internet - contains millions of websites, all interconnected. Why do they call it a "web", anyway? This blog, and my blog cluster , are a microcosm of that concept. Many blogs, and static websites, participate similarly. Affiliate networks are, likewise, a part of the web. This blog has several casual affiliate links, with other blogs providing similar content. Affiliate networks let the publishers of one website say to their readers Hey, here's another website with similar information! and the readers of one blog can read another blog / website for different / more insight.

This week, Blogger developed new spam review / appeal procedures , designed to make everybody's life (except, maybe, confirmed or self aware spammers) a bit simpler. Unfortunately, as we implement the new procedures in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken , we are starting to see other problems, which may affect the success of the new procedures.

I've been referring to the old Blogger 4 Step spam classification / review process for some time. This week, Blogger released a new review process, designed to make everybody's life simpler (except maybe for the confirmed and / or self aware spammers). The process starts with a new notice, posted in any "My blog is not spam!" report in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken .

We get an occasional odd report about a blog, recently setup with a custom domain using " Buy a domain ", which cannot be accessed using either the BlogSpot or domain URL. Upon investigation using a Whois log , we see an odd detail. MYNONXDOMAIN.COM IS AVAILABLE mynonxdomain.com appears to be available An HTTP trace will appear identical to an improperly published domain. Upon further discussion with the blog owner, we also learn that the blog owner has seen no charge against the bank account provided for the purchase process. The only sign of the purchase is the BlogSpot URL, redirected to the domain URL. In this case, the only choice is to publish the blog back to the BlogSpot URL , then repeat the purchase, again using " Buy a domain " - but after diagnosing and possibly correcting your credit card information . >> Top

Blogger has been using CAPTCHA verification for some time, to identify you as a person, and to make sure that you are not running a computer based script. When you setup a new blog. When you submit a request to have your blog unlocked after being (falsely) classified as spam. When you attempt to publish too many posts in one day. Unfortunately, spammers eventually figured out how to automate CAPTCHA processing .

This week in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken , we're seeing another round of frustration coming from blog owners who use Internet Explorer I can't see my Followers. and I keep getting logged out, when I try to access my blog! and I can't publish to my blog - it just keeps spinning!! and The Template Designer never loads - all that I see if the big "B" in the middle of the screen!!! All of these reports, combined with understanding of what last Tuesday was , to users of Microsoft products, hints of yet another problem with layered security on our computers , and another set of Microsoft Security Updates. Some blog owners, oblivious of the details involved, will require immediate, and detailed attention to their problem. Just tell me, in nice simple terms, what settings I should check or change! Here is where the security analysts, and the Geek Computer Repair experts, need to step up to the plate, and educate the computer owners - so they do not keep pain...