Is the free blogger.com still getting indexed and ranked in Google Search
Earlier I had create couple of free blogs on blogger.com (Google Blogspot) domain and they were ranking on first page in google search results. But from 2024 onward I do not find neither my blogs ranking nor blogs from other users ranking on google. So, later I got my own domain name registered with The Online right here, and even created WordPress blog that now ranks quite good in Google, Bing and even for few keywords on AI Mode and Chatgpt search. So I went back to check if my blogger.com blogs were ranking or not, and I’m surprised that beyond homepage, the entire blog posts were de-indexed by Google somewhere in between 2024 and 2025. I suppose Google search no more value free blogs either from blogger.com, wordpress.com or even tumblr. Is that true? Now, the content creators and bloggers should build blogs on custom domain names owned by them and host website on shared hosting or wordpress hosting – seems this is the only way to succeed beyond 2025 and get your site indexed, and generate traffic to it. Long gone the days of free blogging, blogspot, free wordpress subdomain, etc.
Blogger.com blogs are not ranked anymore in Google search atleast not on first 5 to 10 pages. All free blogging platforms have been de-ranked. Even if you have good authority blogs to your free blogger.com/blogspot blog then also it will not rank on page 1 or 2. I’ve never seen blogger.com blogs ranking in AI mode or Google AI overviews. Same with Bing. You really took the right step by upgrading your free blog to a personalized, custom domain name and going with WordPress hosting for it. Even I’ve seen my old blogs when migrated to paid wordpress plan improved in ranking, impression, and clicks by almost 5x to 6x in an year. This is because I created a brand value around my blog which was not possible using free blogger or blogspot domain and neither the free wordpress.com subdomain you get. Those sites even if are included in google search results rank very low somewhere beyond first 100 results. So nobody clicks on it.
Blogger.com blogs are not ranked anymore in Google search atleast not on first 5 to 10 pages. All free blogging platforms have been de-ranked. Even if you have good authority blogs to your free blogger.com/blogspot blog then also it will not rank on page 1 or 2. I’ve never seen blogger.com blogs ranking in AI mode or Google AI overviews. Same with Bing. You really took the right step by upgrading your free blog to a personalized, custom domain name and going with WordPress hosting for it. Even I’ve seen my old blogs when migrated to paid wordpress plan improved in ranking, impression, and clicks by almost 5x to 6x in an year. This is because I created a brand value around my blog which was not possible using free blogger or blogspot domain and neither the free wordpress.com subdomain you get. Those sites even if are included in google search results rank very low somewhere beyond first 100 results. So nobody clicks on it.
Despite the fact that Google owns the Blog-ger platform, the search engine does not give preferential treatment to Blogspot blogs in search rankings. To rank higher, you must follow Google’s rules for creating and maintaining a useful, informative website. But since the start of 2024 blogspot blogs aren’t seen much in google search engine results. Google might have de-valued many blogs as it seem to be un-helpful. My own blogs hosted on blogspot domain have been affected. I’m rather seeing busines sites and their blogs hosted on custom CMS or plain HTML rankings better in google search.
Yes, I agree blogger blogs are no more ranked at the top of the search engine page. You can see them ranking down somewhere on 6th or 7th page even for low volume keyword or long tail keyword. But SEO consultant still advice to use it for building backlinks. I don’t know if Google gives any more importance to blogger.com or blogspot domain as lots of those blogs are created for pure spam purposes. Rather I would suggest buy a .com domain for your self from some reputed domain registrar like The-Online.com, and install WordPress with one-click, and import your blogspot blog to it. Add valueable content, SEO plugins, caching, etc. I’ve seen my sites gaining traffic when I migrated from blogger/blogspot. I have one blog created with Ghost CMS. Ranking good.
I’m still using my blogger.com blog created on blogspot domain for last 10 years. Sadly, since google stopped ranking my new and even old posts, I’ve turned that blog into a web2.0 property now used just for indexing my money site and it’s sub pages. Blogger is still valuable if you use it as parasite website to build good backlinks. You can write a 100 word blog post and include a contextual backlink to your money site. Though google may not ranking blogspot domains it still values dofollow hyperlink from it. Lots of my friends on other forums like webmasterworld, blackhatworld, warrior forum recommend to use blogger platfrom to create niche based web2.0 blogs, add them to new google search central (GSC) account and index those pages. And enjoy free backlink.