Sunday, January 31, 2010

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?
  • Maybe you opened the invitation email under one account, but were logged in to Blogger using the other account. This can be a problem, if you execute the transfer using just one browser.


(Post RePublished 2010/12/29)

This post has been republished as Transferring A Blog From One EMail Account To Another - An Alternate Possibility.

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5 comments:

Peg in South Carolina said...

I started my blog with an email account through Road Runner. A few months ago I got a G-mail account (in addition to my main Road Runner Account). Blogger immediately changed my email address to the Google account and now that appears at the top of my blog and is where all my comments on Google blogs go!!! I thought this really weird.

Chuck said...

Peg,

If you sign on to your GMail account, the Google cookie will show you signed in to that email address, as displayed in the navbar. That's a normal effect from the Google account, and the cookie.

The Lone Bohemian said...

Hi, I was wondering if you could help me with something...
I started a blogger blog under a hotmail email address, and now I want to change it to a gmail email address, and it says "you are not allowed to have a gmail address as the primary acoount for your blogger account"
Which seems totally odd to me. Any advice?

Chuck said...

I started a blogger blog under a hotmail email address, and now I want to change it to a gmail email address, and it says "you are not allowed to have a gmail address as the primary acoount for your blogger account" Which seems totally odd to me.

The message is a bit confusing. It should say something like "You can't add a GMail address as a second email address." The bottom line is simply that you can't edit your profile, change the "Email Address" under Identity, and change the name of your account - nor can you have 2 GMail addresses for 1 account.

If you want to use a different GMail email address, you have to setup a new Blogger account, and transfer control of your blog(s) to the new account.

Helder Neves, aka zuzullo said...

I share the similar problem as "PEG IN SOUTH CAROLINA".
Did you guys found a solutions for it? How to unlink it?