Blog Equally A Google+ Page: Existent Cite Non Required

Note: Google volition beback upwards your Google+ Page data earlier then. Brand Accounts volition non hold upwards deleted too you lot tin maintain to sign inward straight if you lot accept that laid up.

Note: As of September 2016, it is no longer possible to laid a password for take away sign-in to a Google+ Page or its Brand Account. If you lot accept an existing Brand Account amongst a password set, you lot volition maintain to hold upwards able to sign in.

The alternative is to use a Blogger Profile for your Blogger Account.

If you lot accept a YouTube channel, gamer tag, work concern or brand, you lot may desire to spider web log using that identity, rather than your Google+ Profile's mutual name. If your Blogger work concern human relationship is connected amongst your Google+ account, you lot tin associate you lot spider web log amongst a Google+ Page. But fifty-fifty afterward you've connected your Page, your Google+ Profile shout out volition withal hold upwards the writer of your spider web log posts.

So what tin you lot practise if you lot don't desire your personal Google+ Profile shout out associated amongst your blog? How tin you lot spider web log pseudonymously or anonymously?

You accept a span of options:

1. Use a "limited" Blogger Profile

2. Add your Google+ Page equally a spider web log writer too write posts equally your Page.
     (Note: this is only possible if you lot accept an former Google+ Page amongst a password set).

Authoring posts equally your Google+ Page lets you lot maintain your pseudonymity spell using Blogger's Google+ features.

Revert to a Blogger Profile

Note: amongst the update of the Blogger interface inward Nov 2016, the instructions below are out of date. You tin uncovering this setting nether your Blogger Settings > User Settings.

Current instructions: How to laid a Blogger Profile

If your spider web log is connected to Google+, your Google+ Profile is automatically the writer of each post. You tin build your shout out less prominent past times removing the "Author" champaign from the Blog Post  gadget inward your blog's Layout. However fifty-fifty though your writer shout out may non hold upwards equally visible on your blog, it may withal look inward other places, such equally your blog's post feed. And your shout out too Google+ Profile may hold upwards linked to whatever comments you lot make.

If you lot desire to spider web log nether a pseudonym, i choice is to use a regular "limited" Blogger Profile that is non associated amongst Google+. To switch from a Google+ Profile to a Blogger Profile:

1. Sign to your Blogger Dashboard (https://www.blogger.com/home)

2. Click the gear icon. You tin choose the "Revert to a Blogger profile" choice from the menu.

Alternatively, larn straight to https://www.blogger.com/revert-profile.g

The downward side of reverting to a Blogger profile is that you lot volition no longer hold upwards able to role Google+ features such equally Google+ comments, mentioning people inward your circles and automatically sharing to Google+.

To retain all the Google+ features on your blog, but post using something other than your "common name" you lot tin instead add together your Google+ Page equally an writer of your blog.

Add your Google+ Page equally a spider web log author

Note: equally of September 2016, Google no longer offers the choice to laid a password for a Google+ Page. You tin banking concern correspond to run across if you lot older Page too its Brand Account has a password laid past times opening your Brand Account listing  (myaccount.google.com/brandaccounts), too clicking the Brand Account name. If you lot run across an Update Password button, at that spot is a password set. If you lot don't run across that button, that is non an option.

To role Google+ features on Blogger without using your Google+ Profile equally your writer identity, you lot bespeak to add together a Google+ Page for your spider web log equally an author. Blogger lets you lot add an writer to your spider web log past times adding the author's Google work concern human relationship e-mail address - the trick, then, is doing that for your Google+ Page's Google account.

1. If you lot haven't done hence already, create a Google+ build Page to stand upwards for your blog. You tin practise that at plus.google.com/dashboard

2. Create a password for your Google+ Page.

Instructions here: Set a password for your Google+ Page too connected YouTube channel
Make authorities notation of your Google+ Page's @pages.plusgoogle.com username 

3. Add your Google+ Page's e-mail username equally an writer to your blog 

• Go to your blog's Settings -> Basic
• Click "Add Author"
• Enter your Google+ Page's @pages.plusgoogle.com username
• Click "Invite authors"

4. Copy the "Accept invitation" link

Look for the e-mail writer invitation from Blogger inward the e-mail work concern human relationship laid to have your Google+ Page notifications. 

The invitation volition accept a big orangish "Accept invitation" push - don't click this button!

Instead, re-create the push link. If you lot are using Chrome you lot tin alt-click the push too choose re-create link address. 

(Note: if you've added a Gmail e-mail to your Google+ Page too you lot are receiving the notification inward your Google+ Page's Gmail account, larn ahead too click the button.)

5.  Now opened upwards a novel browser too sign into Google or Blogger (www.blogger.com) amongst your Google+ Page's username too password. Once you lot are signed inward equally your Google+ Page, glue the "Accept invitation" URL into the browser's address bar.

You should run across your Google+ Page's profile photograph too shout out inward the upper correct corner too a big orangish "Accept Invitation" button. Now you tin click the orangish button.

6. Now you lot tin sign into Blogger equally your Google+ Page too post using your Page identity.

7. Optional: Sign inward to Blogger using your master Google account, larn to your Settings too promote your Google+ Page from "Author" to "Admin". As an Admin you lot volition hold upwards able to alter your blog's Layout, run across your Stats too more.

Once you've got it ready it's easy. I'm posting equally a Google+ Page correct now!

Also see Adam Auster's post: Your hugger-mugger blogging identity

Related: Manage your Google+ Settings for your Blogger Blog

Manage Google+ Settings For Your Blogger Blog: Profile, Comments, Sharing

Blogger is removing Google+ features including Google+ comments together with widgets on Feb 4, 2019, together with Blogger accounts using Google+ Profiles volition last reverted to Blogger profiles inward March 2019. Learn more.

Google+ settings for your Blogger weblog are instantly easier to uncovering together with amend integrated amongst your other weblog settings. You tin all the same conduct betwixt a Blogger or Google+ Profile, together with Blogger or Google+ Comments.

The Google+ tab has been removed from the left carte du jour of your weblog dashboard. The Google+ settings tin instantly last institute inward your blog's Settings nether Posts, comments together with sharing




Note: the settings themselves haven't changed. If you lot are happy amongst your blog's electrical current profile together with comment setup, you lot don't take to brand whatsoever changes. 

• Switch to (and from) a Google+ Profile
• Set a Google+ Page equally "Publisher" of your Blog
• Enable or disable Google+ Comments
• Manage sharing to Google+

Switch to (and from) a Google+ Profile

You tin switch from a Blogger Profile to a Google+ Profile (or vice versa).

1. Sign inward to Blogger (www.blogger.com/home) together with click the gear icon at exceed right

2. Select Edit User Settings from the menu

3. On the User Settings page select a Blogger profile or Google+ Profile

4. Click the orange Save button

Note: this volition switch to the Google+ Profile for all the blogs inward your Blogger account. You tin together with hence associate private blogs amongst whatsoever Google+ Page you lot ain or manage.

>> Blogger Help Center: Change your profile on Blogger

Enable or disable Google+ Comments

1. Sign into Blogger (www.blogger.com) together with select your weblog from the list.
Make certain your Blogger describe organisation human relationship is linked to Google+.

2. On your weblog dashboard, select Settings on the left menu

3. Under settings select Posts, comments together with sharing

4. Next to Use Google+ Comments on this blog switch the setting from No to Yes (or vice versa) 

5. Click the orange Save Settings button at exceed right

>> Blogger Help Center Google+ Comments

Set a Google+ Page equally "Publisher" of your Blog

1. Sign into Blogger (www.blogger.com) together with select your weblog from the list.
Make certain your Blogger describe organisation human relationship is linked to Google+.

2. On your weblog dashboard, select Settings on the left menu

3. Under settings select Posts, comments together with sharing

4. Under Share to Google+ you volition encounter
      This weblog is associated amongst your personal Google+ profile
or   This weblog is associated amongst [Page name] Google+ page

Next to your Profile or Page name, click the pocket-sized downwards arrow.

5. Select the Google+ Page you lot desire to associate amongst your blog

6. Click the orangish Save Settings button at exceed right

Note: your Google+ Profile volition all the same last the "Author" of your weblog posts, fifty-fifty if you lot educate a Google+ Page to last the "Publisher". If you lot desire your Google+ Page to last the Author of your posts encounter this tutorial: Blog equally a Google+ Page: existent cite non required

>> Blogger Help Center Choose which Google+ Profile or Page you lot part to

Manage sharing to Google+

1. Sign into Blogger (www.blogger.com) together with select your weblog from the list.
Make certain your Blogger describe organisation human relationship is linked to Google+.

2. On your weblog dashboard, select Settings on the left menu

3. Under settings select Posts, comments together with sharing

4. Change the sharing settings from No to Yes (or vice versa). Options include:

• Auto-share novel published posts to your Google+ Profile (or Google+ Page)
     Note: auto-shared posts are Public
• Prompt to part subsequently posting
     Note: this alternative allows you lot to write commentary amongst your link, together with manually select a Google+ Circle, Collection or Community to ship service to

5. Click the orange Save Settings button at exceed right

Note: posts volition automatically part to the Google+ Profile or Page you lot accept educate for your blog.

If you lot part a ship service manually to Google+ you lot may take to switch from your Profile to your Page identity first.

>> Blogger Help Center Share your posts to Google+

Blogger Tip: Insert An Icon From Google+ Or Hangouts Into A Post

Note: when consumer Google+ shuts downwards on Apr 2, 2019, the Google+ Photos from Posts album inwards Album Archive volition endure deleted. If y'all accept photos inwards Google+ Photos from Posts, endure certain to download a backup earlier Apr 2nd. 

One of the advantages of using Blogger is that it's business office of the Google ecosystem. You tin easily insert whatever icon uploaded through your Google trace of piece of employment organisation human relationship into a Blogger spider web log post, including images y'all accept shared on Google+ or inwards a Hangouts chat.

Blogger tin access whatever icon inwards your Google Album Archive, which includes all images uploaded to Google through Google Photos, Google+, Hangouts, Blogger, Google Drive in addition to other Google services (Learn to a greater extent than nearly Album Archive).

How to insert an icon shared to Google+ or Hangouts into a Blogger spider web log post

1. Sign inwards to Blogger amongst the same Google trace of piece of employment organisation human relationship y'all purpose to sign inwards to Google+ or Hangouts

2. Open the Blogger postal service editor in addition to click the Insert Image icon

3. On the Add Images options window,  select the From Google Album Archive tab

4. To insert an icon y'all shared inwards a Hangout chat, click on the Hangout name, in addition to thence the icon to insert

Each Hangout chat has a dissever album, titled Hangout: [name]

You volition exclusively endure able to meet an insert images that y'all shared inwards the chat, non anyone else's images.

5. To insert an icon y'all shared on Google+, click Photos from Posts

Images are arranged inwards chronological fellowship past times upload date.

6. Click on an icon to select then click the bluish Add Selected button to insert the icon into your spider web log post.

Watch the video showing how to insert images from Google+ in addition to Hangouts into your Blogger spider web log post


Learn to a greater extent than nearly how insert photos in addition to videos into a Blogger spider web log post inwards the Blogger Help Center.

For to a greater extent than tips on how to teach beyond obviously text inwards your Blogger spider web log post, watch my costless webinar: Blogger: Beyond Text with Michael Daniels.

Updated March 2019 to take links to Google+

Verify Your Blogger Spider Web Log Inward Google Search Console

If y'all bring a Blogger blog, y'all tin easily verify your weblog in Google Search Console alongside only a few clicks. The Google Webmasters has made a video showing how y'all tin create that as business office of their novel Google Search Console grooming series. 

I've also written upward the step-by-step instructions below. 

Google Search Console is a useful tool to monitor together with deal how your website or weblog appears inwards the Google Search results.

• View together with ready indexing problems
• Request re-indexing of novel or updated content.
• View Google Search traffic information for your site, including how ofttimes your site appears inwards Google Search results, which Google search queries exhibit your site, together with how ofttimes searchers click your site inwards the Search results.
• Receive alerts when in that place are indexing, spam, or other issues on your site.
• See which sites link to your site.
• AdSense recommends using Search Console tools to meliorate your site visibility together with (hopefully) increase traffic to your site.

You volition also require to verify your website or weblog inwards Search Console to link to it from your YouTube video Cards together with End Screens.

Verify your Blogger Blog inwards Google Search Console

New Blogger blogs should live on added together with verified automatically inwards your Search Console account. However, if your weblog isn't automatically added, y'all tin easily verify your Blogger weblog inwards Search Console.

If y'all are using Google Sites, Google Domains, or bring whatever other form of site, the Google Webmasters aid middle has instructions for Search Console verification.

Here's how to verify your Blogger weblog inwards Search Console:

1. Sign inwards to Google Search Console (https://search.google.com/search-console) with the same Google work concern human relationship e-mail y'all role to sign inwards to Blogger.

2. At tumble out left click the electrical current Search Property. 

If your Blogger weblog is already verified together with on the list, only click the weblog cite to encounter the data. You shouldn't require to create anything else. If your weblog is non listed there, become on to pace 3.

3. Click + Add Property

4. Select URL Prefix,  enter your weblog URL, and click Continue

5. Verification should live on immediate, together with y'all should encounter an Auto Verification confirmation

Search Console starts collecting information equally presently equally your weblog is verified.

Note that "older Blogger blogs" are non automatically verified, but tin live on verified using the HTML tag method. While Google Webmasters does non define an "older blog", I would gauge it's blogs using the really one-time "Classic" theme.

Blog Equally A Google+ Page: Existent Cite Non Required

Note: Google volition beback upwards your Google+ Page data earlier then. Brand Accounts volition non hold upwards deleted too you lot tin maintain to sign inward straight if you lot accept that laid up.

Note: As of September 2016, it is no longer possible to laid a password for take away sign-in to a Google+ Page or its Brand Account. If you lot accept an existing Brand Account amongst a password set, you lot volition maintain to hold upwards able to sign in.

The alternative is to use a Blogger Profile for your Blogger Account.

If you lot accept a YouTube channel, gamer tag, work concern or brand, you lot may desire to spider web log using that identity, rather than your Google+ Profile's mutual name. If your Blogger work concern human relationship is connected amongst your Google+ account, you lot tin associate you lot spider web log amongst a Google+ Page. But fifty-fifty afterward you've connected your Page, your Google+ Profile shout out volition withal hold upwards the writer of your spider web log posts.

So what tin you lot practise if you lot don't desire your personal Google+ Profile shout out associated amongst your blog? How tin you lot spider web log pseudonymously or anonymously?

You accept a span of options:

1. Use a "limited" Blogger Profile

2. Add your Google+ Page equally a spider web log writer too write posts equally your Page.
     (Note: this is only possible if you lot accept an former Google+ Page amongst a password set).

Authoring posts equally your Google+ Page lets you lot maintain your pseudonymity spell using Blogger's Google+ features.

Revert to a Blogger Profile

Note: amongst the update of the Blogger interface inward Nov 2016, the instructions below are out of date. You tin uncovering this setting nether your Blogger Settings > User Settings.

Current instructions: How to laid a Blogger Profile

If your spider web log is connected to Google+, your Google+ Profile is automatically the writer of each post. You tin build your shout out less prominent past times removing the "Author" champaign from the Blog Post  gadget inward your blog's Layout. However fifty-fifty though your writer shout out may non hold upwards equally visible on your blog, it may withal look inward other places, such equally your blog's post feed. And your shout out too Google+ Profile may hold upwards linked to whatever comments you lot make.

If you lot desire to spider web log nether a pseudonym, i choice is to use a regular "limited" Blogger Profile that is non associated amongst Google+. To switch from a Google+ Profile to a Blogger Profile:

1. Sign to your Blogger Dashboard (https://www.blogger.com/home)

2. Click the gear icon. You tin choose the "Revert to a Blogger profile" choice from the menu.

Alternatively, larn straight to https://www.blogger.com/revert-profile.g

The downward side of reverting to a Blogger profile is that you lot volition no longer hold upwards able to role Google+ features such equally Google+ comments, mentioning people inward your circles and automatically sharing to Google+.

To retain all the Google+ features on your blog, but post using something other than your "common name" you lot tin instead add together your Google+ Page equally an writer of your blog.

Add your Google+ Page equally a spider web log author

Note: equally of September 2016, Google no longer offers the choice to laid a password for a Google+ Page. You tin banking concern correspond to run across if you lot older Page too its Brand Account has a password laid past times opening your Brand Account listing  (myaccount.google.com/brandaccounts), too clicking the Brand Account name. If you lot run across an Update Password button, at that spot is a password set. If you lot don't run across that button, that is non an option.

To role Google+ features on Blogger without using your Google+ Profile equally your writer identity, you lot bespeak to add together a Google+ Page for your spider web log equally an author. Blogger lets you lot add an writer to your spider web log past times adding the author's Google work concern human relationship e-mail address - the trick, then, is doing that for your Google+ Page's Google account.

1. If you lot haven't done hence already, create a Google+ build Page to stand upwards for your blog. You tin practise that at plus.google.com/dashboard

2. Create a password for your Google+ Page.

Instructions here: Set a password for your Google+ Page too connected YouTube channel
Make authorities notation of your Google+ Page's @pages.plusgoogle.com username 

3. Add your Google+ Page's e-mail username equally an writer to your blog 

• Go to your blog's Settings -> Basic
• Click "Add Author"
• Enter your Google+ Page's @pages.plusgoogle.com username
• Click "Invite authors"

4. Copy the "Accept invitation" link

Look for the e-mail writer invitation from Blogger inward the e-mail work concern human relationship laid to have your Google+ Page notifications. 

The invitation volition accept a big orangish "Accept invitation" push - don't click this button!

Instead, re-create the push link. If you lot are using Chrome you lot tin alt-click the push too choose re-create link address. 

(Note: if you've added a Gmail e-mail to your Google+ Page too you lot are receiving the notification inward your Google+ Page's Gmail account, larn ahead too click the button.)

5.  Now opened upwards a novel browser too sign into Google or Blogger (www.blogger.com) amongst your Google+ Page's username too password. Once you lot are signed inward equally your Google+ Page, glue the "Accept invitation" URL into the browser's address bar.

You should run across your Google+ Page's profile photograph too shout out inward the upper correct corner too a big orangish "Accept Invitation" button. Now you tin click the orangish button.

6. Now you lot tin sign into Blogger equally your Google+ Page too post using your Page identity.

7. Optional: Sign inward to Blogger using your master Google account, larn to your Settings too promote your Google+ Page from "Author" to "Admin". As an Admin you lot volition hold upwards able to alter your blog's Layout, run across your Stats too more.

Once you've got it ready it's easy. I'm posting equally a Google+ Page correct now!

Also see Adam Auster's post: Your hugger-mugger blogging identity

Related: Manage your Google+ Settings for your Blogger Blog

Enable External Website From Your Google+ Page-Linked Youtube Channel

From the YT TC Blog: External annotations to Blogspot blogs

If your YouTube channel is linked to a Google+ Page, you lot may uncovering it tricky to ready external annotations your Blogger spider web log or additional websites. In my experience, this isn't express to only Blogger or blogspot blogs, it's an upshot amongst associating whatever website amongst your YouTube channel afterwards you've linked it to a Google+ Page.

The fox is adding the exceptional @pages.plusgoogle.com username for your Google+ Page every bit an possessor of your spider web log inward Webmaster tools. Once you've done that, your spider web log volition automatically move associated amongst your Google+ Page-linked YouTube channel.

See YouTube TC Andrew Bossom's post that shows you lot step-by-step how to associate your Google+ Page-linked YouTube channel amongst your Blogger blog.

Related information:

• YouTube Help: Associated Website Annotations
• Webmaster Tools: Remove or Add Owner

Blogger Pages Gadget: Add Together A Card To Your Blog

The Blogger Pages gadget lets you lot add together a listing of links to your blog's static Pages, dynamic content or external websites. You tin ship away purpose the Pages gadget to add together a card at the exceed of your blog.

Blogger recently changed the agency spider web log Pages are managed. Blogger has ever offered 2 unlike options: practise a static Page alongside your ain content, or practise a Page that redirects to a page alongside dynamic content or an external spider web address.

While management of static Pages alongside your ain content is much simpler now, it's a flake to a greater extent than complicated to add together a Page that's precisely a link. But the selection hasn't disappeared!

Now Link Pages are managed through the Pages gadget inwards your blog's Layout.

What type of links tin ship away you lot add?

• your blog's static Pages
• your blog's dynamic content (such equally all posts alongside a item label)
• your YouTube channel, Facebook Page, ReverbNation profile or other social media site
• your Cafe Press or Zazzle store
• any other external website you lot desire to indicate your blog's visitors to

You tin ship away too use the Pages gadget to add together a navigation card to your Blogger blog.

Add as well as Configure your blog's Pages gadget

To manage your Blogger Pages that you've created yourself, precisely click the "Pages" link inwards your blog's left menu. You volition run into a listing of your blog's Pages, alongside the selection to edit or add together a novel Page.

But missing from the options is the mightiness to practise a Page that is precisely a link to your blog's dynamic content or to a unlike site.  To practise that, you lot involve to become to your blog's Layout.

If you've already added a Pages gadget, click the selection to edit it.

Otherwise, you'll involve to add together a Pages gadget to your blog's layout. Click "Add a Gadget"

From the gadget list, choose Pages:

   

That volition opened upward the Page gadget for you lot to configure.  You volition run into a listing of all your currently published Pages, which you lot tin ship away rearrange.

To add together a Page that is a redirect to a specific link, click the +Add a link page Add External Link  option.

That volition opened upward the "Web Address" window where you lot tin ship away cite the Page as well as piece of occupation into the link URL.

Once you lot convey saved the link, you lot volition run into the novel Page listed inwards your Pages gadget. Drag the listing entries to reorder them.

Once you've configured the listing the agency you lot want, click the "Save" push at the bottom of the Pages gadget.

Importantly, your novel Link Page volition not show on the Pages tab for your blog. It volition alone appear inwards the Pages gadget.  

There too isn't whatsoever selection to edit the link or title. Instead you lot convey to add together a novel Link Page as well as take away the outdated one, in i trial to a greater extent than through your Page gadget's options.

And if you lot delete the Page gadget, you'll convey to re-add all the Link Pages to a novel gadget.

What kind of links tin ship away you lot to add?  

Static spider web log Pages

You tin ship away create static Pages on your blog alongside data virtually your blog, contact information, items for sale, or whatsoever other content that is to a greater extent than "permanent" than a post.

Dynamic content from your blog

You tin ship away add together link to i of your blog's label pages or other dynamic content. For example, this is the URL for this blog's page of posts labeled "Blogger", which is updated every fourth dimension I break a novel postal service alongside that label: http://www.peggyktc.com/search/label/Blogger

You tin ship away too link to i of your blog's most of import or pop posts

Social media profiles or other websites

You tin ship away link to your YouTube channel, Facebook Page, ReverbNation profile or Zazzle shop - whatsoever other site you lot would similar to straight your blog's readers to.

For to a greater extent than suggestions see: The Real Blogger Status: Blogger Magic: Publish Posts to Pages
Related: How to rename your Home page inwards the novel Blogger Pages gadget

Use the Pages gadget to practise a navigation card for your blog

Once you lot convey created your Pages gadget, you lot tin ship away purpose it to practise a card across the exceed of your blog. All you lot involve to practise is to add together or motion the gadget nether your Blog's header.

The exact hold off of the card depends on your Blogger template. Here is how it looks on this spider web log correct now:

Updated 3/14/15

Updated 3/10/19

I Can't Sign Inward To My Youtube Channel Or Blogger Blog! How To Recover Access.

Note: every bit of August 2014 the method described for recovering YouTube channels is no longer available. The Blogger recovery method all the same works.

Are you lot having problem signing inward to YouTube or Blogger? If you lot created your channel or weblog long ago, you lot may convey fifty-fifty forgotten the e-mail you lot used to sign inward to the account. That tin live on quite frustrating, because that e-mail address is your account's username.

Fortunately at that spot are options for recovering your Google concern human relationship - together with its associated YouTube channel together with Blogger blogs - fifty-fifty if you lot don't recall your account's e-mail username.

• Recover access to your YouTube channel
• YouTube concern human relationship recovery if you lot produce non know the sign-in email
• Recover access to your Blogger blog
• Blogger concern human relationship recovery if you lot produce non know the sign-in email
• Google+ Profile together with Google concern human relationship recovery if you lot don't know the sign-in email
• Set your concern human relationship recovery options now!

Recover access to your YouTube channel

If you lot are having problem signing inward to YouTube, the house to commence is the YouTube login troubleshooter:

https://support.google.com/youtube/troubleshooter/3219097

That volition straight to the appropriate troubleshooter or shape for recovering access to your YouTube account, whether you've forgotten your password, your e-mail or if you lot know both your password together with e-mail address, only all the same cannot access your YouTube channel.

Why commence alongside the troubleshooter?  The concern human relationship recovery options occasionally change, thence past times starting alongside the official login troubleshooter, you lot should ever live on directed to the most up-to-date information.

What if I've forgotten which e-mail to utilization to sign inward to YouTube?

Note: every bit of August 2014, this choice is no longer available. If you lot cannot holler back your YouTube channel's sign-in email, you lot must utilization the Google concern human relationship recovery form together with pick out "I don't know my username"

Currently if your channel has a custom URL or YouTube channel username, together with your YouTube channel is connected to a Google+ Profile (or unconnected to Google+), then you lot tin commence your YouTube concern human relationship recovery procedure at:

www.youtube.com/account_recovery

Enter your YouTube channel username or the terminal purpose of your channel's custom URL inward the form.

My YouTube channel URL is www.youtube.com/user/peggykyt, thence I larn into peggykyt

You volition together with thence live on walked through the concern human relationship recovery process.

Unfortunately this alone industrial plant if your channel is connected to a Google+ Profile, rather than a Google+ Page, you lot volition live on directed to larn into the e-mail address for a managing director or possessor of the Google+ Page.

The alternative is the Google concern human relationship recovery process, which I depict inward to a greater extent than exceptional below.

What if it doesn't work? If you lot convey tried the troubleshooter together with concern human relationship recovery procedure together with you lot all the same cannot access your YouTube channel, delight post a query inward the official YouTube assistance forum.

Recover access to your Blogger blog

If you lot are having problem signing inward or viewing your Blogger blog, the house to commence is the Blogger weblog access troubleshooter:

support.google.com/blogger/troubleshooter/2980162

If you lot cannot holler back the e-mail username for your Blogger account, pick out the commence option: "I can't holler back my password and/or username".

What if I've forgotten which e-mail to utilization to sign into Blogger?

If you lot convey forgotten the e-mail that you lot utilization to sign inward to your Blogger blog, you lot tin currently commence alongside the Blogger "forgot your password" form:

www.blogger.com/forgot.g

There you lot tin enter your blog's blogspot URL together with larn a password reset e-mail sent to all authors together with administrators of the blog.

Note that fifty-fifty if your weblog has a custom domain, you lot must larn into the blogspot URL inward the form. For example, fifty-fifty though this weblog has the custom domain www.peggyktc.com, I would convey to larn into the master copy blogspot URL- gplusintegration.blogspot.com - to live on sent an concern human relationship recovery email.

Click the "Lookup" push clit to ship all the authors of the weblog a password re-set message . You volition too live on shown a hint virtually which addresses were sent the reminder email.

The e-mail you lot have from Blogger back upwards volition non alone convey a password re-set link, only volition too listing all the blogs associated alongside your e-mail address.

If you lot no longer convey access to the e-mail concern human relationship associated alongside your blog, you lot volition convey to become through the Google concern human relationship recovery process, described inward to a greater extent than exceptional below.

What if it doesn't work? If you lot convey tried the troubleshooter together with concern human relationship recovery procedure together with you lot all the same cannot access your Blogger blog, delight post a query inward the official Blogger assistance forum.

Recover access to a Google concern human relationship or Google+ Profile if you've forgotten your e-mail username

If the YouTube or Blogger-specific concern human relationship recovery options don't operate for you, or you lot desire to recover access to a Google+ Profile, you lot volition convey to commence the procedure on the Google concern human relationship recovery page:

www.google.com/accounts/recovery

Your Google concern human relationship username is the e-mail you lot utilization to sign inward to your account. For many accounts this is likely to live on a Gmail email, but it tin live on a dissimilar e-mail address.

If you lot produce non holler back your e-mail address, select the "I don't know my username" choice (even if you lot know your YouTube channel username).

Click the "Continue" push clit together with you lot volition live on shown 2 recovery options.

Enter either your recovery e-mail address or your recovery telephone number, along alongside your Google+ or Google Profile refer together with thence click "Submit".

Google volition together with thence ship you lot a verification code which volition permit you lot run into the Google concern human relationship e-mail usernames associated alongside that telephone publish or recovery e-mail address.

If you lot convey non develop a recovery e-mail address or recovery telephone publish for your account, you lot volition postulate to recall the e-mail username for your account. Hopefully alongside the hints provided past times YouTube or Blogger you lot volition live on able to figure it out.

Set your concern human relationship recovery options now!

The best agency to ensure that you lot volition ever live on able to access your YouTube channel, Blogger blogs, together with Google+ Profile is to brand certain your concern human relationship recovery options are upwards to date.

If you lot haven't develop whatsoever concern human relationship recovery options, or if your telephone publish or recover e-mail has changed, become update your concern human relationship right now!

• How to develop an email recovery address
• How to develop a recovery telephone number

Blog Equally A Google+ Page: Existent Lift Non Required

Note: Google volition beback upwardly your Google+ Page data earlier then. Brand Accounts volition non move deleted in addition to y'all tin flaming expire on to sign inward take away if y'all convey that laid up.

Note: As of September 2016, it is no longer possible to laid a password for take away sign-in to a Google+ Page or its Brand Account. If y'all convey an existing Brand Account amongst a password set, y'all volition expire on to move able to sign in.

The alternative is to use a Blogger Profile for your Blogger Account.

If y'all convey a YouTube channel, gamer tag, describe of piece of employment organisation or brand, y'all may desire to spider web log using that identity, rather than your Google+ Profile's mutual name. If your Blogger describe of piece of employment organisation human relationship is connected amongst your Google+ account, y'all tin flaming associate y'all spider web log amongst a Google+ Page. But fifty-fifty afterward you've connected your Page, your Google+ Profile yell volition nevertheless move the writer of your spider web log posts.

So what tin flaming y'all exercise if y'all don't desire your personal Google+ Profile yell associated amongst your blog? How tin flaming y'all spider web log pseudonymously or anonymously?

You convey a pair of options:

1. Use a "limited" Blogger Profile

2. Add your Google+ Page equally a spider web log writer in addition to write posts equally your Page.
     (Note: this is only possible if y'all convey an erstwhile Google+ Page amongst a password set).

Authoring posts equally your Google+ Page lets y'all maintain your pseudonymity piece using Blogger's Google+ features.

Revert to a Blogger Profile

Note: amongst the update of the Blogger interface inward Nov 2016, the instructions below are out of date. You tin flaming respect this setting nether your Blogger Settings > User Settings.

Current instructions: How to laid a Blogger Profile

If your spider web log is connected to Google+, your Google+ Profile is automatically the writer of each post. You tin flaming construct your yell less prominent past times removing the "Author" acre from the Blog Post  gadget inward your blog's Layout. However fifty-fifty though your writer yell may non move equally visible on your blog, it may nevertheless look inward other places, such equally your blog's post feed. And your yell in addition to Google+ Profile may move linked to whatsoever comments y'all make.

If y'all desire to spider web log nether a pseudonym, i selection is to use a regular "limited" Blogger Profile that is non associated amongst Google+. To switch from a Google+ Profile to a Blogger Profile:

1. Sign to your Blogger Dashboard (https://www.blogger.com/home)

2. Click the gear icon. You tin flaming choose the "Revert to a Blogger profile" selection from the menu.

Alternatively, teach take away to https://www.blogger.com/revert-profile.g

The downwards side of reverting to a Blogger profile is that y'all volition no longer move able to piece of employment Google+ features such equally Google+ comments, mentioning people inward your circles and automatically sharing to Google+.

To retain all the Google+ features on your blog, but post using something other than your "common name" y'all tin flaming instead add together your Google+ Page equally an writer of your blog.

Add your Google+ Page equally a spider web log author

Note: equally of September 2016, Google no longer offers the selection to laid a password for a Google+ Page. You tin flaming banking concern fit to meet if y'all older Page in addition to its Brand Account has a password laid past times opening your Brand Account listing  (myaccount.google.com/brandaccounts), in addition to clicking the Brand Account name. If y'all meet an Update Password button, in that location is a password set. If y'all don't meet that button, that is non an option.

To piece of employment Google+ features on Blogger without using your Google+ Profile equally your writer identity, y'all quest to add together a Google+ Page for your spider web log equally an author. Blogger lets y'all add an writer to your spider web log past times adding the author's Google describe of piece of employment organisation human relationship electronic mail address - the trick, then, is doing that for your Google+ Page's Google account.

1. If y'all haven't done therefore already, create a Google+ construct Page to stand upwardly for your blog. You tin flaming exercise that at plus.google.com/dashboard

2. Create a password for your Google+ Page.

Instructions here: Set a password for your Google+ Page in addition to connected YouTube channel
Make banker's complaint of your Google+ Page's @pages.plusgoogle.com username 

3. Add your Google+ Page's electronic mail username equally an writer to your blog 

• Go to your blog's Settings -> Basic
• Click "Add Author"
• Enter your Google+ Page's @pages.plusgoogle.com username
• Click "Invite authors"

4. Copy the "Accept invitation" link

Look for the electronic mail writer invitation from Blogger inward the electronic mail describe of piece of employment organisation human relationship laid to have your Google+ Page notifications. 

The invitation volition convey a big orangish "Accept invitation" push - don't click this button!

Instead, re-create the push link. If y'all are using Chrome y'all tin flaming alt-click the push in addition to choose re-create link address. 

(Note: if you've added a Gmail electronic mail to your Google+ Page in addition to y'all are receiving the notification inward your Google+ Page's Gmail account, teach ahead in addition to click the button.)

5.  Now opened upwardly a novel browser in addition to sign into Google or Blogger (www.blogger.com) amongst your Google+ Page's username in addition to password. Once y'all are signed inward equally your Google+ Page, glue the "Accept invitation" URL into the browser's address bar.

You should meet your Google+ Page's profile photograph in addition to yell inward the upper correct corner in addition to a big orangish "Accept Invitation" button. Now you tin flaming click the orangish button.

6. Now y'all tin flaming sign into Blogger equally your Google+ Page in addition to post using your Page identity.

7. Optional: Sign inward to Blogger using your master Google account, teach to your Settings in addition to promote your Google+ Page from "Author" to "Admin". As an Admin y'all volition move able to alter your blog's Layout, meet your Stats in addition to more.

Once you've got it ready it's easy. I'm posting equally a Google+ Page correct now!

Also see Adam Auster's post: Your surreptitious blogging identity

Related: Manage your Google+ Settings for your Blogger Blog