Transferring A Blog From One GMail Account To Another - An Alternate Possibility

I've written about the simple procedure of transferring a blog from one Blogger account to another, and how simple it should be. Sometimes reality sets in, and that procedure won't work, for one reason or another.

• Maybe you don't want your GMail address known by the current blog owner.
• Maybe the two GMail addresses are thoroughly tangled - you invite the second GMail address as a blog member but just don't get the email - even in "Bulk" or "Spam"! What to do?

Sometimes, having ignored one or two basic (to me) rules of Blogger account existence, you just can't get a membership application to a second Blogger account, that's based on a GMail account. Here's where we think outside the box.

• Setup an email account based upon a non GMail address. I'll suggest Yahoo.com, but you can use whatever service that works for you.
• Go to Settings - Permissions, and add your new Yahoo address as an invited member.
• Go to your Yahoo email account, and open your email. Remember to look in your "Bulk" or "Spam" folder, if you don't see anything in "Inbox".
• Accept membership in the blog.
• When you're asked for a password, select "Use a different account"!
• Enter the second GMail account name (address), and the correct password for that account.
• Go back to the Permissions display, and refresh.
• Verify that you have a new member in the Author list.
• Return to the normal procedure, and complete the transfer.

A little extra work, that. But if you need to transfer control of the blog, to make it possible to manage the blog from the other GMail account, it's probably worth it.

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