Blogger and "Adult Content"

[Fortune Hunter]

I have a client who wanted to set up a free blog using blogger.com and he is sort of a conservative kind of guy (owns and accounting firm) he had a client go read his blog and not knowing anything about blogs clicked on the link at the top of the blogger.com tool bar that says "Next Blog" thinking it was the next page of the accountant's blog and to his surprise ended up on a "adult" type blog. The accountant's client didn't realize that this wasn't the same blog, but rather a random blog chosen.

My client called me up freaked out and said he can't have his clients thinking he has "adult" pages on his blog. I told him that the blogs were randomly chosen, but he doesn't ever want a chance where a client would click that link and end up on a "adult" type blog. I told him that is probably not something he can stop and now he is wondering if he should delete it.

My question is there a way to remove this "next blog" link from the top or if not is there a way to control what the next blog will be rather than a random blog, which could contain stuff he doesn't want his clients seeing?

Fortune Hunter

[edited by: Woz at 1:19 am (utc) on April 14, 2006]
[edit reason] Tidying Up [/edit]

[treeline]

Yes, that's one of the options you can turn off. Google has some nice flowery language to encourage you to keep it, your site won't get traffic off the feature if you turn it off. On the other hand, the downside of having it on is the next blog may be pretty odd, or worse.

Sounds like turning it off is the way to go here.

[treeline]

The Navbar appears on all freely-hosted Blog*Spot blogs, but can be disabled for users publishing via FTP.

From [help.blogger.com...]

Note that you have to publish via ftp to diable this "feature" as it was used to replace ads at some point in the past.