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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Google Friend Connect Accessory Stopped Working For Or Then Custom Domain Published Blogs

We are observing owners of a few Blogger blogs reporting that the pop Google Friend Connect accessory, every bit suggested final year, of late stopped working, on their blogs.

I convey a Blogger weblog but I'm using a custom domain (not purchased through Blogger though) - too my Google Friend Connect is gone now, merely similar they announced it, concerning the other non-Blogger blogs.

From a brief cheque of several blogs reporting this change, it appears that blogs published to non BlogSpot URLs, using custom domain publishing amongst incorrect DNS setups, are beingness treated every bit non Blogger blogs. The Following / Google Friend Connect accessory, on those blogs, is at nowadays stopped.

Last year, nosotros were informed that Google was going to halt providing the immensely pop Following / Google Friend Connect gadget for websites exterior Blogger. It appears that the referenced alter is at nowadays inwards termination - too Google Friend Connect is no longer a non Blogger accessory.

Since Blogger blogs tin last published to BlogSpot URLs (using native settings) - or to whatsoever available non BlogSpot URL (using custom domain publishing), it's non a uncomplicated procedure to position a Blogger blog. It appears that Blogger blogs published to non BlogSpot URLs, using DNS addresses redirect incorrectly.

For about Blogger weblog owners, who convey been using (marginally) wrong DNS addressing for their custom domain published blogs, too whose Following / Google Friend Connect gadgets convey stopped working, the describe of piece of employment is simple.

1. Correct the DNS addresses.
2. Re issue the blog.

The detail, that non all weblog owners volition abide by this an instantly convenient project, is unfortunate.

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