Publicising Updates To Your Blog, Using Google+

Ever since Google+ was released, weblog owners convey been quest how to post service weblog updates to Google+. Previously, at that spot was exclusively the possibility of publishing from Google+ to our blogs - in addition to that selection was non good designed. Last week, Blogger released this option, inwards Draft Blogger.

Today we’re excited to denote the get-go manner y'all volition live on able to leverage Google+ -- past times making it possible to supercede your Blogger profile alongside your Google+ profile.

In improver to giving your readers a to a greater extent than robust in addition to familiar feel of who y'all are, your social connections volition come across your posts inwards their Google search results alongside an annotation that you've shared the post.

As long equally y'all are prepared to purpose a Google+ profile alongside your Blogger account, y'all tin ship weblog updates to your followers.

After y'all login to Blogger, precisely edit your profile. There, you'll come across the advice

Connect Blogger to Google+ : Use your Google profile in addition to instruct access to upcoming Google+ features on Blogger. Learn more Get Started

After y'all upgrade Blogger to purpose your Google+ profile, instruct to the dashboard Settings - Google+, in addition to conduct "Prompt to percentage later posting", for automatic sharing. Or, y'all tin purpose the Posts link "Share" for whatever post, when convenient.

I suspect at that spot volition live on several possibilities alongside this novel feature, then spotter this infinite for updates.

Security Modify To Blogsend Leaves Blogsend Electronic Mail Distribution Broken #2

A twelvemonth ago, nosotros noted a safety alter to BlogSend, which left many weblog owners alongside severely deprecated mightiness to publicise weblog updates, when using a somebody Google Group. At that time, the recommended workaround was to add together "no-reply@blogger.com" every bit a Google Group member.

Today, nosotros run across that the mightiness to add together Google Group members straight is no longer offered. It appears straightaway that the role of somebody Google Groups, for distribution of Blogger weblog updates, is non an option.

Last week, Blogger announced the selection to publicise weblog updates using Google+.

It would seem that role of Google+ may last the future, for Blogger weblog publicity. Some fourth dimension ago, nosotros were advised that private Blogger profiles were existence replaced past times Google+. It's possible that somebody weblog updates may convey the same future.

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Google Friend Connect Accessory To Hold Upwards Provided Past Times Blogger

This week, Google announced the destination to its website based community edifice accessory, Google Friend Connect, for non Blogger based websites.

We're retiring the service for all non-Blogger sites on March 1, 2012.

The statement notes its replacement amongst Google+.

We encourage affected sites to attain a Google+ page too house a Google+ badge on their site too hence they tin convey their community of followers to Google+ too utilization novel features similar Circles too Hangouts to maintain inward touch.

Blogger spider web log owners tin larn out on to utilization the Followers gadget, tin utilization Google+, or tin construct their communities using both features.

Blogger spider web log owners were of late offered several suggestions, to integrate Google+ into their blogs.

• The Google+ badge, placed on the blog, directs your readers to your Google+ profile.
• You tin supervene upon your Blogger profile amongst your Google+ profile.
• Replacement of your Blogger profile amongst your Google+ profile enables you lot to publish your spider web log updates to your Google+ followers.

With Google retiring Friend Connect, this allows Blogger to attain got over its functionality. Blogger spider web log owners, who similar the thought of letting their Followers display their icons on the faces of our blogs, too thought our spider web log updates inward the Blogger Reading List / Google Reader displays, tin larn out on to utilization the Followers accessory.

By removing Google Friend Connect from the Followers accessory, Blogger is hoping that the code supporting the Followers gadget tin live on simplified, too volition larn to a greater extent than stable. This volition hopefully resolve many of the of late reported outages, both inward the spider web log confront display, too inward our dashboard too Reading Lists.

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Comments Posted, Using Google / Google+ Profiles, Live On Noreply E-Mail Addresses

Recently, we've noted a pose out of complaints almost Blogger commenting, inward Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken

.My comments all role a "noreply" e-mail address, instead of my actual e-mail address. How create I convey people e-mail their replies to my comments?

These are people who convey updated their Blogger accounts, to role a Google or Google+ profile. Neither Google or Google+ profiles supply the pick to

Show my e-mail address

It appears that, alongside the deployment of the novel Google / Google+ profiles to Blogger, Google is making soundless i to a greater extent than endeavour to convince us to network using Google+ - too choke on our e-mail addresses to ourselves.

If y'all moderate or monitor comments to your blog, y'all may convey lately noticed many non anonymous comments labeled alongside a mutual e-mail address of "noreply-comment@blogger.com", instead of personal e-mail addresses.

People who intentionally wishing to expose their e-mail addresses inward their comments volition need to revert their Blogger accounts to the Blogger profile. If this is a trouble concern for you, larn to your dashboard. From the carte attached to the gear ikon at the acme right, choose "Revert to Blogger profile", too you'll convey your Blogger profile back. Then edit your profile, choose "Show my e-mail address" nether Privacy, too you'll survive dorsum to sharing your e-mail addresses inward your comments.

It's probable that the noreply e-mail addresses are existence offered to choke on many bloggers from, inadvertently, exposing their e-mail addresses to e-mail mining techniques. In remembering the long agone discovered "nice blog" spam, it's possible that "nice blog" spam was originally developed to aid the spammers assemble e-mail addresses, using very innovative technique.

All that an imaginative spammer has to create is to post a "nice blog" comment, choose "Email follow-up comments to me" - too then scout every bit the Inbox fills upwards alongside follow upwards comments from bloggers, willingly giving upwards their e-mail addresses to every stranger besides selecting "Email follow-up comments to me", inward that comment thread.

The people willingly providing their e-mail addresses, to the footing inward general, are perfect targets for hackers subsequently trying to brute forcefulness access to the Blogger accounts, using their e-mail addresses.

If y'all determine to revert to a Blogger Profile for posting comments - or fifty-fifty if y'all don't - see using Google 2-Step Verification, to protect your Blogger / Google account from hacking.

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Blogs Listed Twice, Inwards The Blogger Profile Or Dashboard

Occasionally, an oddity inwards our Blogger profiles volition movement confusion - as well as offering exactly about weblog owners a chance to brand a bad mistake. For exactly about unknown reason, exactly about Blogger blogs may locomote listed twice, inwards the dashboard or profile Blog List.

If you lot are 1 of these weblog owners, seeing the same weblog listed twice inwards your dashboard or profile, mean value earlier you lot act! Check the URL behind the weblog title, for each entry - you'll meet an identical URL behind both.

Seeing the duplication as well as entirely wanting a build clean list, exactly about weblog owners volition innocently delete 1 of the duplicates.

I don't request 2 of the same!

Since the 2 entries reverberate the same blog, the possessor volition meet the listing become from 2 of the same, to cipher of the same.

Now where is my blog?

Hopefully, the mysterious weblog volition directly locomote acquaint inwards the deleted blogs list, as well as tin locomote un deleted.

1. Possibly, the weblog can locomote un deleted - as well as volition arrive at 1 entry inwards the weblog list. This is the best result.
2. Less desirably, the weblog tin locomote undeleted, as well as volition exactly restore both duplicate entries to the list. This is the realistic result.
3. Undesirably, the weblog won't seem inwards the deleted listing - or can't locomote un deleted, fifty-fifty if inwards the list. This is the undesired (but nonetheless possible) result.

Do you lot experience lucky, punk?

Recalling a few previous reports of this oddity, I've observed that the work spans GUIs - both the Classic GUI, as well as directly the New (2011) GUI. I'm pretty for sure that the work involves the Blogger profile - the Classic dashboard (dark blueish / orange) is where I kickoff observed this, though I won't enjoin that the work is non every bit good acquaint for weblog owners using the novel Google profile (orange / white).

It's your blog, as well as your profile - then you lot are entitled to meet what happens. I recommend exactly accepting the incertitude - you lot won't locomote charged whatever to a greater extent than for having 2 blogs, than for having one.

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