I would never buy a blogspot from another since it’s quite easy to acquire one myself

No, I have no plans on selling them after I reach my goal. But, I will be more than glad to keep you guys all updated.

Thanks for posting up the link to redirect a blogger blog to your own domain, will come in handy i am sure.

If you “really” wanted to get technical, selling something that does not belong to you might even be considered fraud.

Lets say you were renting a house, and then you the house up for sale. You sold the house and got the buyers money. Then the owner of the house comes along and tells the buyer, sorry, but that is not your house. Most of the time, criminal charges could be filed on the seller for selling something that does not belong to them.

There is one simple rule to keep in mind – if its not yours, you can not sell it. Its that simple.

There is a lot of content to be had for free or paid. Good or bad. You just need to apply yourself as diligently to your site as to blogspot. Why waste time building content and then just to be deleted at someone’s whim be it the mighty google.

Well take my blog for example. I seemed to of gotten it screwed up to the point were there’s a WWW permalink (even though my blog shouldn’t Have a WWW) and a normal weblink. So there are, in Google’s eyes, two domain, regardless of the fact the WWW domain redirects back to mine. Make sense?

We all put so much effort into our blogs but we’re still at the whim of the search engines – get delisted and you’re done.

I wouldn’t stop blogging if I was delisted but it would hurt my ego just a tad. I enjoy writing for my readers but I equally enjoy having new people find it because I believe they’ll really enjoy the content.

Google does not mind webmasters selling their own websites/domain names.

The traffic you need to generate $1000 monthly varies a lot, according to the niche and business mode.

If you have an average niche and makes money through advertising only I would you’ll need around 100,000 monthly unique visitors to make that.

900 unique per month within two months is a gr8 start…..

Apart from that problem, so if we really intend to make money blogging seriously and we feel have the ability to build a good blog, we should begin by having our own domain and hosting. Anyway, I will ask for your help later if I think my blog is eligible for sale.

One of my regrets is that I never use the blogspot platform to actively promote my new blog till recently- and I have lost a lot of organic traffic that way. Why not keep the blogspot blogs and either monetise it or drive traffic to the self hosted blog?
Just my thots and experience on this.

I’ve just started a blog on playing guitar 2 months ago, and I’m getting about 900 unique visitors a month. Is that good?

How would it hurt the sale?

Anyways, I think that exporting and redirecting the blog would be the best option, HOWEVER it might hurt your sales…right?

Thinking about how to sell a Blogger blog, the easiest way seems to involve owning a domain name thats pointing to the blog. Selling the blog would of course also mean selling the domain name. The buyer sets up a Blogger account, points the domain name to his blog and imports the content.

I’m not 100% sure how feasible this is but it does side step Google’s TOS.

No thanks.

-Joshua Black
The Underdog Millionaire

Google doesn’t need to know you’re taking money. I don’t think they’ll check “flippa” to see if there are listings with your blog.

@ Eran: Could i help you out in migrating your blogspot blog

If you take money to transfer your account to someone else I believe you would still fall under that clause.

@Eran

I really don’t think issue was with your “custom template” on blogger.
In fact, blogger keeps all your data completely separate from your custom templates.

We are running a professional service for blogger to wordpress migration and I never seen blogger exporter creating problems because of custom template.

By any chance, were you using blogger blog with FTP publishing mode at the time of trying migrating to wordpress?

Yes, but you can transfer ownership of a blog on blogger without handing over login information. If you are selling login accounts you are then selling the service, but if you are transferring blog ownership from one account to another you are not selling the service. The person is already using the service.

I think selling your blog (i.e. handing out your login/passwords in exchange for money) would violate that clause. Notice the “(a) any portion of the Service, (b) use of the Service, or (c) access to the Service” part.

I’m glad that I never went with using Blogger at the beginning. I started out with my own self hosted blog. I’m so glad that I did.

If someone is going to spend that time and energy to create quality content. Why not do it on your own self hosted blog. That is scary that Blogger can shut your stuff down. Another great post!

Chat with you later…
Josh

For example people could have a custom domain on a blogger.com blog and a user should be able to sell that site to a new owner, as long as the new owner already has a blogger.com account.