Word of warning!
By Kowgirl
@Kowgirl (3490)
United States
February 7, 2008 11:40am CST
Dear bloggers
If you are using Blogger (blogspot) then be sure you make a copy of your blog after every entry. I had (notice past tense)14 blogs there and now ALL are gone. I have notified them but so far I haven't gotten an answer. From what I have heard this has been happening to a lot of people who use them for their blog host. This seems to happen when they do any kind of update. I have been trying to find just one of my blogs but I am tired of searching through all the mess at Google. There have also been complaints of blogs being changed to another language other than English.
So to be on the safe side I suggest you make a backup copy ASAP. Who knows what may happen next!
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12 responses
@cnetboss (2473)
• Philippines
5 May 08
One friend of mine got his blogger account suspended for suspected as a spam site because of his high traffic and he has more than 2 thousand subscribers on his blog feed.
@christineli (525)
• Philippines
10 Mar 08
Hello Kowgirl :)
I haven't been saving copies of my entries. I should, now. Thanks very much for the reminder :)
@callarse1 (4783)
• United States
6 Apr 08
Hello Kowgirl! THank you for the warning about blogger. I actually use eblogger, but now you got me thinking! I never really thought about the blog being accidently deleted. Do you know any good webites that backs up blogs? I have over 10 pages on my blog and it would be nice to have a back up, right? Well take care and thank you for the information.
Pablo
@girlgonefishing (2174)
• United States
8 Feb 08
Thanks for the warning Kowgirl. I didn't get a chance to respond to you yesterday, but I did read this discussion and I backed up all of my blogs. That's a lot of hard work lost if I loose them.
@pcsourcepoint (631)
• New Zealand
8 Feb 08
I have been backing my blog (in my mylot profile) with the free BlogBackupOnline; Also using Feedburner, I also subscribe to my e-mail as a secondary measure...
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
6 Apr 08
Can you PM me with the specific link for the free BLogBackupOnline site? I need to do this! I looked at the blog you had about blogs and didnt' see this there. thanks
@LittleMel (8742)
• Canada
8 Feb 08
you have so many blogs there wow
never heard that this happened before but I'll do what you suggest. thanks!
I hope your blogs are now recovered. must be a pain to rewrite them all over again
@dolce_vita78 (8062)
• Philippines
8 Feb 08
This is the first time I heard about this. I have been using Blogspot for some time now and I have not really experienced this yet. Thanks for the information. I think I will have to check if my entries are still intact.
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
6 Apr 08
I used to copy and past the template as I changed it in the old Blogger and that saved my blog entries. When they changed the layout option, and it saves it automatically and you don't have to deal with the template anymore, that is when I stopped saving on my own.
Now, that you mention this, I should have been more thoughtful... I have not had any problems with Blogger or loosing anything, but.... what I do want is a copy of all my posts - if they are lost, I can retype them or C&P thme. however, I have not been copying them to notepad or anywhere.
Now with this mention of your loss, is there a way to get a copy of each blog entry, other than literally just going to each entry and C&P it? Looking for the easy, less time consuming way to get a hard copy of all my blogs, shame on me for not keeping up with this. Better late than sorry tho and I'll just devote a full day to nothing but this...as soon as I find out the best way to do it.
i was also wondering how you all keep track of affiliats and other links that you include in your blog entries -you know if you have an article on AC and you want to do an HTML to that article based on a related word in your blog post - how do you keep track of all you have available to "network" with? thanks for any suggestions on either concern!
@frontier2002 (630)
• Malaysia
6 Apr 08
well i got all 3 blogs from bloggers got deleted already. I have no idea what i've violated cause they dont explain it
@idaantipolo (472)
• Philippines
25 Feb 08
sorry to hear that, but I have not encountered that yet...I have 4 blogs there and luckily I still have them all. Hope you can claim your blogs back.