One of the most easily overlooked details, about Blogger blog content, is that GPT / PTC / PTS Content is not suitable, for Blogger blogs.
Blogger Content Policy has a section which describes GPT / PTC / PTS Content, in passing.Spam: Spam takes several forms in Blogger, all of which can result in deletion of your account or blog. Some examples include creating blogs designed to drive traffic to your site or to move it up in search listings, posting comments on other people's blogs just to promote your site or product, and scraping existing content from other sources for the primary purpose of generating revenue or other personal gains.
Unfortunately, spammers have been imaginatively subtle, in their description of various make money fast programmes - and not so many blog owners think it necessary to contact a lawyer, to interpret the Content Policy document, when planning their new blog.
Too many blog owners, asking the frequently seen question in Blogger Help Forum: Get Help with an Issue, get answers they are not prepared to see.
Why was my blog deleted? I need the money from the blog, to feed my family!
And they are told, simply
GPT / PTC / PTS / PTV content is not welcome, in Blogger.
This response generally does not please them.
Maybe, education can reduce the popularity of GPT activity, in Blogger.
"GPT" is a collection of fraudulent and illegal activities.
"GPT" (aka "Get Paid To") is a collection of various activities.
- PTC, aka "Pay To Click" involves people clicking on ads, to earn the blog / website owner money.
- PTS, aka "Pay To Surf" involves people clicking on links, to access the blog, and to earn the blog / website owner money.
- PTV, aka "Pay To Verify" involves people solving CAPTCHAS, so spammers can publish spam, as Blogger blogs and comments, and in our email, using high volume publishing scripts.
These various activities have been carefully packaged, as useful "make money fast" techniques, by the more successful spammers, who called themselves "marketing consultants".
Ads are placed on peoples blogs, so the readers of the blogs will view the ads and buy the merchandise. People who sit in front of their computers, clicking away, are not looking at the ads, or planning to buy the merchandise.
GPT (PTC / PTS / PTV) is a type of fraud. Any blog which provides advice on using GPT - or uses GPT techniques to increase blog activity - encourages the fraud, with clever ads, and shiny payment programmes. Ask yourself how the various GPT "Services" make the money, that they pay to the blog owners, for hosting their ads.
If "GPT" was really lucrative, would the expert waste time selling it?
If the blog owner, who shows you the GPT programme, really had a way to get rich, would he waste effort, telling you how to get rich? No, he would be busy getting rich, without you. Blogs, with ads telling you how to get rich, are not showing you how to get rich - they are helping the blog owner to get rich - and you are paying for his success.
Who pays you to sit at your computer, and solve CAPTCHAs, all day? The people who sell the commercial scripts, that enable spammers to setup accounts and publish spam - like spam Blogger accounts, spam Blogger blogs, and spam Blogger comments. You are just a minimum wage employee, who makes the CAPTCHA solution section of the script run, and produce the spam accounts, blogs, and comments.
Abuse detection, like highway traffic enforcement, doesn't take place in every spot on the globe, on a 7 x 24 x 3600 basis. Some people get caught (blogs get detected), other people (blogs) go un detected - from day to day.
To put and end to "GPT" and other fraud, we go one blog, at a time.
For abuse classification to produce results, each blog must be classified, on its own, as detected. Other illegal blogs will be classified, later.
If you start a blog, fill it with GPT content, and publicise it using GPT technique, you'll be one more blog owner lamenting, in Blogger Help Forum: Get Help with an Issue.
Why was my blog deleted? I worked hard for 1 year, spent much money advertising!
Start a new blog, with legitimate, interesting, unique, and useful content, based on a subject that interests you. Don't become one more victim, of advice from the older spammers.
Blogger One Button Publishing is a platform for publishing personal web sites, using an intuitive GUI process.
You publish content that's personal to you, and your readers (possibly using alternative techniques like Following and subscribing) read your personal web site because of the content that's personal to you.
If you have advertising on your web site, and you are paid to host the advertising, the ads are financed by the companies that sell the merchandise featured in the ads. And your readers are the targets of the ads, so they hopefully will buy the merchandise.
The money flows from your readers, to the sellers of the merchandise, to the advertisers who publish the ads, to you who host the ads on your blog. Your readers learn about the merchandise through your efforts, and you are paid because of that.
That's organic advertising and merchandising. You make money from publishing content, that draws readers, who read your content, and click on the ads. The advertisers pay you for the readers, and for the ad clicks.
Some people are not happy with organic advertising, because they want more money.
Ingenious blog owners publish more blogs, to get more traffic.
They get more money from publishing more sites, from more traffic to their sites, and from more activity on their sites.
- To publish more sites, they can't spend time writing content, so they pay people to write for them (Syndicated Content, aka Pay To Write, aka "PTW"). Or, they copy content with permission ("syndicate") or without permisssion ("scrape" or "steal") from other websites.
- To get more traffic to their sites, they pay people to surf their sites (Pay To Surf, aka "PTS").
- To get more activity on their sites, they pay people to click on the ads in their sites (Pay To Click, aka "PTC").
More sites x more traffic x more activity = lots more money.
More blogs == more traffic == more money - for them, and for the paid surfers.
That's great. More money, some of which they pass to the people who write, who surf, and who click. More money into the economy, more people who can buy stuff, and everybody makes out better.
Why is this a problem?
It is a problem because the advertisers are paid by the companies who sell the merchandise.
- They are paid to attract eyes to the ads, and to attract people who buy the merchandise featured in the ads.
- They are not paid for people who click on the ads, simply because they are paid for clicking on the ads.
- They are not paid for people who surf your sites, simply because they are paid to surf your sites.
- They are paid for people who are interested in the content on your sites, who click on the ads because the merchandise featured in the ads interests them, and who buy the merchandise.
The people who get paid for surfing are not legitimate customers for the ads.
The people who are paid for surfing and clicking are not the proper targets for the advertisers or for the merchandisers.
- They are not looking at the ads, because they are busy surfing the next web site.
- They are not thinking about purchasing any merchandise, because they are busy clicking on another ad.
More clicking and more surfing = more money for them - and they, too, want more money.
PTC and PTS (together known as "GPT", aka "Get Paid To (click and surf)") are fraudulent schemes to extract money from the advertisers, while delivering very little to encourage the merchandisers to pay the advertisers.
AdSense, owned by Google, is one of the advertisers who is unwillingly paying for GPT / PTC / PTS activity. Blogger, owned by Google, will classify blogs as spam hosts, when they provide GPT / PTC / PTS / PTV advice, or derive activity / content / traffic from such techniques.
Affiliate marketing networks gather, and repeat traffic, similarly.
GPT / PTC / PTS uses paid participants to artificially increase traffic to participant blogs. A similar arrangement, but one which involves affiliate marketing networks or link farms, uses unpaid casual visitors.
Any of these techniques, however clever they may be, are fraud.
If any of these are the case,
That is why your blog is now classified as spam, or will be eventually classified as spam - and that is why you are here.
