Make Your Blog Searchable - Where To Start
Making a blog searchable is the first step in getting search traffic, and readers, for our blogs - when we want them visible to the public. Not all b…
Privacy
Blog PageView Counts, And Social Sharing Activity
Ever since 2009, when Blogger introduced the Stats visitor activity counter , blog owners have been reporting inconsistencies between Stats and other…
Act Immediately, When Invited
Some moments come fleetingly, and never again. One such moment may be, when you receive a blog membership invitation. The purpose of this message is …
Deleting Your Blogger Account
We see regular queries about deleting a Blogger account, in Blogger Help Forum: Learn More About Blogger . A Blogger account is simply a Google accou…
Indexing Of Blogger Blogs May Not Be Automatic
Some blog owners setup a blog - then a social media account or two - and immediately, start advertising each new blog post in social media. Later che…
The "Forgot?" Wizard Has Limited Retrieval Ability
For blog owners who have forgotten the Blogger account name or the password, the "Forgot your username or password?" wizard is an essential…
Owner Activity Does Not Determine URL Availability
One interesting question, that we see from time to time in Blogger Help Forum: Learn More About Blogger , is about owner activity and "dormant&q…
People Who Publish Private Blogs Deserve Privacy
We see an occasional would be blog member, in Blogger Help Forum: Get Help with an Issue , bemoaning lack of private blog access . I used to follow a…
Private Blogs And Profiles Limit Research Options
Too often , we see the report, in Blogger Help Forum: Get Help with an Issue . I can't login to my Blogger account! or My blog was just deleted!!…
Private / Deleted Blogs Have Limited Recovery
Too often , we see the report, in Blogger Help Forum: Get Help with an Issue . I can't login to my Blogger account! or My blog was just deleted!!…
Blogger Authentication Uses Demographic Details
If you use Google Two-Step Verification , you will have a better chance of being able to recover Blogger account access, if you forget the account na…
Plan A Blog Deletion Or Renaming - Protect Yourself
Every month, we see a concern about content theft or impersonation, in Blogger Help Forum: Get Help with an Issue . I deleted my blog last year! Now…
If You Want To Keep A Secret, Don't Publish It
Have you ever heard the old saying I had a friend, and I had a secret. I told my friend my secret - and now, I have neither a friend, or a secret. O…
Loss Of Ability To Let The Reader Choose A Dynamic View Or Non Dynamic View, When Viewing The Blog
When the Blogger dynamic templates were first introduced, back in 2011, they provided choices . Besides letting the reader choose, on the fly, which …
Help Me! I Can't Access My Blogger Account!
Every week, we see the anguished cry of blog owners, who don't have access to maintain, or publish to, their blogs. Help me! My email address ch…
Visibility Of Google+ Comments Is Similar To Real Life
One of the more intriguing issues about Google+ Comments, as seen in in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken , comes from people who can't see…
The "Recently Updated Blogs" Display Is No More
In 2006, we discovered an interesting feature of Blogger, which let us monitor blog publishing activity , in real time. Sometime last year, " Re…
Everybody Won't Get Proper Notice About Their Blog
One problem that we're seeing in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken involves blog owners, who recently discovered their blogs deleted or lo…
Anonymity, Your BirthDate, And Your New Account
Not all new Blogger blog owners understand why they are asked for their birthdate, when they setup a Blogger or Google account. Some folks see this a…