What if your blog suddenly disappeared?

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July 20, 2013, 1:09 pm

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What if your blog suddenly disappeared?

What if your blog was taken down by Blogger.com or by your host? Do you have backups or copies of posts? How would you start over?

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Beverly

You can actually appeal if your blog is taken down. Most times when this happens, it's simply an automated program that sweeps your site content and makes the decision to close your blog. Just follow the link in the email from Blogger and ask them to open your blog again. After a manual review they will decide if your blog should be up.

11 years ago

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tangee

I do keep backups of everything that I do just so I have all the stuff so that would not be an issue for me.

11 years ago

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angie828

Keeping backups is a great way to be prepared for anything that would happen. I advise this highly.

11 years ago

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evie

Keeping backups is something that everyone should be doing just in case this would ever happen.

11 years ago

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Beverly

I do keep backups of everything that I do just so I have all the stuff so that would not be an issue for me.

Do you have a Wordpress blog or Blogger? And, how would you transfer your Blogger back ups to another site if the Blogger blog was shut down?

11 years ago

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Samalan

I create my blogs using WordPress which I install using cPanel so I take back ups quite often in the event that my blog gets deleted or hacked. However i'm not sure how it would be done officially using a platform like Blogger because you are stuck with one host, you can't host it yourself. However people do convert Blogger blogs into WordPress blogs which is also a way of doing it. If I hadn't taken backups, i'd probably just start the site again.

11 years ago

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Quinton

I've been keeping copies of my articles stored on a USB drive since I began blogging. So if they wanted to take my blog down, I would simply start another blog and republish my own work there as it's my property.

11 years ago

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spotondot

I've been keeping copies of my articles stored on a USB drive since I began blogging. So if they wanted to take my blog down, I would simply start another blog and republish my own work there as it's my property.

This happened to me, when my host went out of business. I was able to recover by uploading previously saved copies of my blog posts.

11 years ago

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Justin

This happened to me, when my host went out of business. I was able to recover by uploading previously saved copies of my blog posts.

Weren't you worried about some type of penalty for duplicate content, considering how your articles were previously published on another site?

11 years ago

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sunil0021

I always use some short of plugins to backup my website in case they get deleted i will restore the backup

- Sunil Bishnoi

11 years ago

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NaturalWriter

You can never have too many back ups of back ups...
I had a blog on SensualWriter for quite sometime, and just like that it was gone. I had back ups of only a few posts and stories, making everything else disappear. I was able to scrape some of my old content, but mostly it was gone with the wind.

Since then, I have literally made back ups of my back ups (just in case one of the files become corrupt or something). I hold on to it like it was my life line.

*Keeping an open mind, opens the door to possibility!*

11 years ago

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Ashlyn

You have to move on. It's not the blog posts that is often the big deal, many times you will lose your readership. Just be sure you own your own domain name and then you can direct that to the new hosting site.

11 years ago

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NaturalWriter

The blog posts has the content Google crawls, bringing you the natural traffic. With out the content you have nothing to build upon. You may be lucky enough to get your content back going through Google Cache. I don't know if Bing has a Cache or not, but it would definitely be worth a try, as you wouldn't want to completely lose everything you had.

11 years ago

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peachpurple

I always keep a copy of my article before I publish at Blogger dot com , just to be sure that it anything happens, I still have my backup copies in hand. It is hard to predict whether blogger dot com or other writing sites would close one day because it depends on the traffic view.

7 years ago

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mark8625

If that would happen I will send an email and try to resolve the issue. I am sure that disappearance of blogs have reasons and that reason should be addressed in order to let the people know if they will experience that kind of thing in the future.

6 years ago

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