At this time I would like to share a little story with you - a horrible story that will make you cringe.

It was about this time last year that I decided to transfer one of my Blogger blogs to a new, hosted website. The blog was getting enough hits and it had enough of a following that it was ready for its own space on the web with hosting/domain name.

So I decided to delete my Blogger blog - and that’s when all hell broke loose.

Basically within days - I was attacked with a barrage of emails from concerned customers. Every one of them was accusing me of having an adult website on my old blog. So I typed my old blogger address in my browser - and lo and behold, my old blog had been taken over by an Adult Friend Finder spam portal. Curse those idiots.

Now all of my old backlinks that were pointing to the adult blog - and my image and company name was being ruined as the time crept along.

I immediately clicked the “Flag Blog” option in the top navbar, but knew this wouldn’t be enough to get the blog deleted. So I quickly fired off an email to Blogger Support asking to have the blog removed because of inappropriate content.

Luckily they deleted the blog - and I reclaimed it. I must say that the people at Blogger were very helpful in helping to reclaim my account.

Sadly, not everyone will have the same luck when something bad likes this happens to their Blogger account - so I suggest that you NEVER delete an old Blogger blog, to protect yourself from the same madness that happened to me. I made a mistake - and I learned my lesson.

Another added benefit of keeping an old blog is that you can leave a last post message with the URL of your new website location - pointing blog visitors to your brand new website. I was stupid not to do this in the first place. This way, your old blog visitors can slowly trickle into your new site. No matter what your situation don’t do what I did. Keep your Blogger account.

I guess I can now officially checkoff adult content as something I have published on a website. ;-)