Google Friend Connect soon restricted to Blogger users only. Post your FB, Twitter and G+ links
I’ve been hearing rumors that Google Friend Connect will soon be restricted to Blogger users only. Good Riddance to Bad Trash.
My take on this is – Real Sponsors don’t take Blogger blogs seriously and Serious bloggers are catching on. Recently there has been a mass exodus from Blogger as users realize “Hey I have created a successful blog but as long as I‘m on Blogger the community won‘t see me as successful.”
Google must be catching on and hoping to scare Blogger users into staying. Google is probably betting that bloggers won’t be bright enough to realize that Face Book and Twitter, as a tool, are far more effective.
The fact of the matter is, if you don’t have a self hosted blog, you appear to be just playing around with this blogging thing. You can piss and moan and squeal as much as you want, but the unfortunate truth is you’re not considered a “Real Blogger” unless you’re self hosted.
You’re little group my disagree, you may have tons of followers with a high PR, but you’re still on Blogger – the wrong side of the tracks.
Now I know what you’re thinking “You Witch! You have no idea what you‘re talking about. My blog is 10 times more successful than yours”
DON’T KILL THE MESSENGER!
I’m not saying I condone the idea of Blogger being the hag tag of the blogging community, I’m just telling it like it is.
I build Blogger templates/themes/layouts every day for happy Blogger users, but they all come back to me asking to have their theme recreate for WordPress.
Regardless if you use Blogger, WordPress.org, WordPress.com, Joomla, ZenCart or one of the other ten thousand platforms, it’s a good idea to start moving your followers to FaceBook Fan Pages, Twitter and G+ pages now before GFC leaves us all together.
PLEASE leave a comment with a link to your FaceBook Fan Page, Twitter and G+ pages so I may follow you.
Mine are: FaceBook, Twitter, G+
Seriously, after I so nervously moved my GFC Followers from Blogger to WordPress if only they had made the announcement a week sooner ;( I agree 100% with you it is Google’s way of trying to scare bloggers into staying.
I just decided not to switch to WordPress because the inflexibility of the themes meant I wouldn’t be able to recreat the same look and feel for my blog and I went to A LOT of effort with my blogs. Self-hosting? Wouldn’t know how. I only do basic maintenance on my website. Anything more than that is stretching my skills.
I completely agree. I am in the process of working to get my own hosted website. Until then you may find me at facebook via https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Raebeths-Corner/163403363738734
I’d love it if you came by and check it out.
Twitter- @raebethmcgee
Google +- There’s a button on my blog as well… user name is Raebeth.
I disagree – respectfully and lovingly. 🙂 I think a serious blogger is someone that tries to provide with good, original content to his/her readers – every day (or at least several times a week). I don’t think that the platform matters… and yes, I am on Blogger and I am very happy with it. Granted, I own my domain hosted by goDaddy. I am moving away from Sponsors, paid posts, etc – I felt I was losing control of my blog and my content. I am also moving away from blog hops and giveaways that expect participants to follow specific blogs/twitter accounts/facebook pages. I am going back to building my following organically. Yes, I am on Triberr as a way of sharing good content and having good content shared back, in an attempt to get my content out there and maybe win some more followers the good old fashion way: organically.
@Ciara Ballintyne,
I’m referring to Self Hosted WordPress, not the Free WordPress which is like Blogger.
Self Hosted wordpress is yours and you can do anything with your theme and any other change you want to make, because you own it.
The article I read compared all three, I don’t recall precisely what was said about paid WordPress, but it did not inspire me to switch. Are you aware that a Blogger blog can be ‘self-hosted’ now using a custom domain?
@Ciara Ballintyne, Using a domain is NOT Self Hosted, that’s just using your own domain on Blogger. Self Hosted means you Pay a hosting company like GoDaddy to host your blog. You are in control of everything on your blog. Blogger can tell you want you can and cannot do – that’s not self hosted.
WORDPRESS FTW! 😀
I sure won’t be missing that slow loading bloated code from my site. I’ve already removed the hideous Networked Blogs and GFC widget already.
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