Locked & Deleted Blogs, Email Addresses, and other Account Stuff       

1.) I can’t log in to Blogger!

If you’re having trouble accessing your account, try our login recovery tool.

If that doesn’t do the trick for you, we have a great troubleshooter that’ll help you out.

2.) I can log in to my account, but I can't find my blog. 

Here's a GREAT place to check. 9 out of 10 times you're just logging in to the wrong account. The first thing to do is try different email addresses. Remember, a Google Account doesn't have to be a Gmail address. Also, if you do have a Gmail address that is not associated with your Blogger account, make sure to log out of Gmail before attempting to log into Blogger.

If you’re unsure of your passwords or need a hint as to which email address you should be logging in with, try our login recovery tool.

3.) I accidentally deleted my blog!

If you got a little trigger happy and accidentally deleted your blog, you can recreate your blog using the same account you originally created it with. If you’re looking to get your original blog back, the Blogger Help Group isn’t the best location to handle this sort of issue, as we need to verify the blog’s ownership. As such, please go here to contact us here.

4.) I accidentally deleted my Google Account and now my blog is gone!

Simply head on over to the Google Accounts Help Center and check out their Recovery Tool.

5.) Robots marked my blog as spam!

The BEST way to get your blog restored is to click the 'Request Unlock Review' link from your dashboard, which requests a manual review of your blog. We will then check out your blog and clear it if it doesn't violate any of our policies.

If it has been over four business days, and have already submitted a request from your dashboard, and are still marked as spam, you may submit your site for another review here.

6.) How do I change the email or transfer ownership on my blogger account?

Since your Blogger account is really your Google Account, you can only change the email on your Google Account. To do this check out this Help article Help article.

If you'd like to transfer your blog between two Google Accounts, you could follow these instructions.

Comments and Posting                                                                        

1.) How do I turn on comments for my blog?
There are three things you need to do to enable comments on your blog:

• Click the 'Post Options' link in the bottom right corner of the post editor and make sure that you have allowed reader comments.
• From the Layout | Page Elements tab, click 'Edit' in the Blog Posts widget. A window will pop up, and from there make sure check the comments field.
• From the Settings | Comments tab,  make sure that 'Show' comments is enabled. Then simply clear your cache and cookies, and then you should be all set!
  

2.) Icons are missing from my post editor!

First clear your cache and cookies.

Then notice that there are two different posting modes within Blogger: 'Compose' and 'Edit HTML.' In 'Edit HTML' mode, not all of the formatting icons appear, and this is usually what trips folks up. To fix this, simply click on the "Compose" tab and you should see those missing icons appear again.

3.) How do I make a picture a hyperlink?

To make an image into a hyperlink you will need to use the following code:

<a title="Message when someone runs their curser over your picture" href="http://url you want them to go to"><img alt="Message when someone runs their curser over your picture" src="Link to photograph" border="0"></a> 

First upload your picture to a post. Then switch the post editor into Edit HTML mode, and you can see the photo's URL inside an <img>tag. Simply copy that URL into the “link_to_photograph” part of the above code, fill out the rest of the code, and you’re done!

4.) How do I add Audio to my blog?

First you will need to upload the audio file to a free file storage site. Two free media storage sites are OurMedia.org or Archive.org. Once your audio is hosted and you have a unique URL for the file, you can use this code to embed audio:

<embed src="Url_of_Your_Audio_File" autostart=false loop=false
height=62 width=144 controls="console"></embed>

More suggestions here.

5.) How do I create a hyperlink?

<a href="url">Text to be displayed</a>

More instructions here

 

6.) How do I add a favicon to my blog?

 

Once you have created an icon using Favicon from Pics, save it  to your computer. You will need to unzip the favicon to your desktop.

 

Blogger does not support .ico files, so you will need to upload it to a free file host.

To find a free file host enter the keywords “free file host” into your Google search bar, or you can upload your icon to Fileden.com.

 

Once you have done that, copy the url to your icon.

 

 

Next go to your Blogger admin panel and click on the template tab and then on Edit HTML.

 

 

Copy and paste the following code into your template.

 

<link href="http://Your_Favicon_Url" rel="shortcut icon" />
<link href="http://Your_Favicon_Url"  rel="icon" />

 

 Replace Your_Favicon_Url  with the link to where you stored your icon. Place the above code between the <head>and</head> tags of your blog.

 

 

Save the template.  Now refresh your page and you should see your icon in the corner of your page.


 

 Feeds, Promotion, and Search Indexing                                               

 

1.) What is my blog's feed URL?

There are two options for your blog's URL:

• NAMEOFBLOG.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
• NAMEOFBLOG.blogspot.com/rss.xml 

The Settings | Site Feed tab has option that let you choose which parts of your blog will be included in the feed. 

2.) How do I promote my blog?

There are various ways to promote your blog and here are just a few:

• Get other sites to link to your blog.
• Submitexpress.com will submit your blog to 40 search engines.
• Google Blog Search  indexes blogs by their site feed, so make sure that your site feed is turned on (Settings | Site Feed tab). If your blog isn't already listed in Google's Blog Search engine, you can submit it manually: http://blogsearch.google.com/ping
• You can also join and actively participate in blog forums and social networks. 
• More suggestions included in this Help Center article.
  

3.) My blog and/or updates aren't showing up in Google's Search results!

Indexing search results is not an instantaneous or scheduled process, so sometimes certain posts may take longer than others to appear in the search results. So rest assure that nothing is broken and know that your posts will eventually get indexed :-)

For a deeper look at Google's Search process, check out this article from the Webmaster's Help Center.

Lastly, clearing your cache and cookies before searching for your site is always a good idea as your browser may have saved a cached copy of older search results.

4.)  How do I notify people of updates to my blog?

We’ve got a few suggestions:

• Use the BlogSend feature to email folks when you update your blog.
• Get your friends hooked on feeds and give them the feed of your blog.
• Feedburner also has a Subscribe via Email widget you can add to your blog after burning your feed. 
• Blogarithm is a service that will let your friends and family subscribe to your blog and be notified by email when you have new content. 
• Blog Alert will send your family and friends daily email notifications when there are new posts to your blog. They don't need an account. They just need to enter your feed URL and their email address.
  

5.) How can I tell how many people have visited my blog?

There are a number of sites that offer free services to help you track visits to your blog:

• Google Analytics
• Site Meter
• Bravenet Hit Counter
• FreeStats
• Easy Hit Counters
• StatCounter    
  

Custom Domains, FTP Publishing, & other URL Issues                           

1.) How do I setup a Custom Domain?

The best and most comprehensive answer lies in this article from our Help Center.

2.) I am getting an error saying, "Another Blog is already hosted at this address"

Simply submit your custom domain's URL in this form, and we will clear it for your shortly.

3.) FTP Publishing is not working or is hanging.

FTP problems can be tricky to pin down because there is no easy way to diagnose problems with third party FTP hosts. Your best bet is to try again a little later, clear your cache and cookies, and if all else fails, contact your hosting provider.

More instructions here.

4.) This blog address looks abandoned – can I have the URL?

Nope. After a blog is deleted, the subdomain is reserved for the previous owner of the URL to reclaim if he/she so chooses. People claim blogs after years without use more often than you would think.

Still need an answer?                                                                          

• Our wise Blog*Stars have put together some other great resources that cover much more ground. Check them out!
  

• Blogger Tips and Tricks
• Blogger Talk Blog Community and Blog Forum
• Beta Blogger for Dummies
• Blogger Status for Real
• How can I do that
• Testing Blogger
  

• Blogger's own Help Center is an encyclopedia of information, please check it out here!
• Finally, our Known Issues blog can reveal a lot of information about bugs, workarounds, and other problems that we are aware of. Check it out here!

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