Google’s John Mueller addressed a myth in a Google+ hangout saying that just because you are on a Google service, such as Blogger, it doesn’t mean Google won’t penalize your web site.

John said there are plenty of Blogger sites that are doing things against Google’s guidelines and many, I am sure, were penalized. So don’t think you can host your site on Blogger and violate Google’s guidelines and get away with it.

John said at the 6:43 mark in the video:

Here is the video embed:

Forum discussion at Google+.

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