If You Have A Blog On Blogger.com....

On Wednesday, October 20th

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"How Do I Get Comments To Show Below My Blog Post?"

Please note that this only (so far) works with Blogger.com blogs.

If you would like the comments that you get to show below your blog posts instead of having them show on a separate page then what you can do is to go to your Blogger.com dashboard, then:

• go to the "settings" tab
  
  
• then go to the "comments" tab
  
  
• then scroll down until you get to: Comment Form Placement and check the box "embed(ded) below post"

*Please note that this does not always work and if the comments aren't showing or you are getting feedback from visitors saying that they can not comment on your blog that you should change your settings back to your original setting.

Blogger.com Is Asking For Your Opinions

One of the Blogger.com employees has posted that Blogger.com is currently working on expanding their video library and they would like to get feedback from all of you about what their next help video should be about.

They ask that you send your feedback and the most requested topic and / or feature will be made and added to their help video files!

You can send your feedback to them by clicking here.

"How Many Blogs Can I Have On Blogger.com?"

Here is an interesting question who's answer I thought was obvious but since someone asked it then I guess its not that obvious at all.

You are allowed to have as many blogs as you like on Blogger.com! You can have personal blogs as well as blogs that you create to help your business and / or to help you make money.

However I suppose the best reply would be that you should has as many blogs as you could provide content for on a regular basis.

Has Your Blog Been Tagged As A "Spam" Blog By Blogger.com During This Past Week?

A Blogger.com employee has posted that all of the blogs that were mistakenly tagged as spam blogs have been restored. However if your blog is still locked then you can post about it here so that you can request to have your blog restored.

Need To Know More About How To Move Your AOL Journal To Blogger.com?

I posted to my AOL Blog about how AOL is discontinuing their AOL Journals! They recommend that you transfer / move your AOL Journals to other blogging platforms - one of which is Blogger.com!

Blogger.com has now put up some areas to help those who want to smoothly and successfully move their AOL Journals to Blogger.com

Here are some links to help you!

Importing your blog from AOL Journals to Blogger

Blogger.com Help Group For Help With AOL Journals!

Has Your Blog Been Tagged As A "Spam" Blog By Blogger.com?

This was a big problem a few weeks ago when a lot of people's blogs were being tagged as "spam" blogs. But when browsing through some of the Blogger.com message boards I found this thread where someone posted about their blog being tagged as a spam blog and one of the Blogger.com employees replied to their post and un-tagged their blog!

How Do I Get Rid Of That Little Wrench And Screwdriver That Shows Up On My Blog?

Actually that little wrench and screwdriver are there for YOUR benefit only! It's to help you edit your blog more faster without having to resort to going back to your dashboard to edit your blog. Visitors to your blog shouldn't be able to see them at all.

If you want to test this just log out of your blog account and then enter the url of your blog. You shouldn't see that little wrench and screwdriver at all!

Was Your Blogger.com Blog Tagged As A Spam Blog?

A few days ago people were having problems with some of their blogs being tagged as a spam blog. An email was sent to bloggers saying as much!

One of my clients got one of these emails - dated - I believe - July 31st - about a week ago.

Interesting note here because since the client hadn't posted to their blog in a while they were really not aware of the fact that their blog was even flagged as a spam blog.

By the time they actually got to their blog everything had been cleared up and their blog was ready to be posted to again!

So I guess what I am trying to say here is that even though it can be a nuisance when something goes wrong with your Blogger.com blog - just give it a little time and the problem may eventually solve itself!

Word Verification?

It just goes to show you that you learn something new everyday!

There was the "word verification" that was a mandatory requirement of one of my client's blogs whenever they wanted to add a new post to their blog.

Although the word verification was a nuisance I just figured that it was there because of some option I put on when the blog was first started.

However now I find out that the reason why the captcha is there is because the blog is still considered to be a spam blog. (I figured as long as the new posts and changes to the blog were being shown that everything was alright). Blogger.com even posts a link just in case you want an answer to "Why do I have to use word verification?". So this particular time I decided to read and then that's when I found out that the blog was being considered as a spam blog!

So I submitted the information that the form asked for. Since I just submitted it today I think it will be a few days before I get a reply.

So for those who have been wondering about that word verification thing - hopefully this explains what it is all about and how you can get rid of it!

If you want to send a request to have your blog reviewed by a human set of eyes, you can fill out this form from Blogger.com!

"What Happens If I Accidently Delete My Blog?"

If you have deleted your blog by mistake you can contact Blogger.com and try to make an appeal to get your blog back. Just click on the link below:

Blogger Support

"How Can I Change The Chronological Order Of My Posts?"

If you have a blog on Blogger.com you know that your blog posts appear with the most recent post at the top. However there are some people who would like the oldest post to appear at the top of the blog.

I always wondered if this was possible.

It is possible but with a caveat. You have to manually enter in the dates yourself. There isn't an option in Blogger.com that lets you put your oldest posts at the top and your newer posts on the bottom. You have to manually do that yourself by changing the date in the "post options" options.

How Do I Add A Photo To My Blog?

Well if you want to add photos to your blog posts then you have 2 options, you can either upload a photo from your hard drive or you can provide the link to your photo if its already online.

What you have to do is when you sign on to Blogger.com and click the link to add a new post is to click on the little "picture" icon - I think its the 2nd one from the end - and that will take you to the link where you can either upload or put in the url of the photo that you want to add.

If you want to add a photo to the side of your blog then you will have to have that photo hosted on a site like Photobucket.com which provides you with the link to link to your photo.

One Of Blogger.com's Newest Options - Blog List

I have to say that I like this new feature very much! You can't see it on this blog because this blog is still using the older template layout but you should be able to see it on my The Adsense Consultant Blog.

Not only can you add a listing of your favorite blogs but you can also include a snippet of information regarding that blog's last post and how long it has been since the last post.

With the recent flux of complaints about the bx error code problems that Blogger.com has been having for quite some time now - this is a very welcomed good thing / feature that Blogger.com has added!

I'm Being Criticized!

As I have posted before I participate in some of the Blogger.com help boards. I'm now being criticized for answering some of the older posts - say like 15 days old (and some older) that haven't had any replies to them.

I just don't understand this kind of reasoning. I mean if someone makes a post and no one replies to it doesn't that make it look like no one has taken the time to even look at it? If I can answer the post then I do - especially if I have something relevent to add. There have been times when I have answered an older post and someone has either emailed me or posted a comment to this blog either thanking me for answering their post or asking me for more information.

All of this started around the time that I started talking about their being a bypass for the bx error code problem and I came to find out that Blogger.com was not aware of there being such a procedure - so I didn't mention it again UNTIL someone brought it up on the boards!

So I'll just have to see how this kind of thing "pans" out!

Having Trouble With Blogger And AOL?

I can't take credit for this one. This post was posted by Aviatrix on one of the Blogger Help Message Threads:

...........we have notes from several bloggers that their email, containing any BlogSpot links, is being blocked byAOL. AOHell is
blocking BlogSpot - that's how bad it is.

We corresponded with AOL about this, because I have my blog URL in my signature and it was messing up a mailing list. Their response:

Hello,

I am contacting you regarding the ticket you opened with AOL concerning a mail delivery issue.

Because of high spam complaints coming associated with various .blogspot.com URLs, we are forced to rate limit all email into AOL which mention contain .blogspot.com URLs. I recommend, removing the .blogspot.com URL from your mailing. If you need to send an email with this link, please attempt to send to less than 5 recipients during an email session.

Thank you,

What Happens AFTER You Report Your BX Error Code To Blogger.com?

When you get one of Blogger.com's bx error code screens it is my understanding that you should first report about it on the Blogger Help Groups.

If you continue to get the error code then you should report it to Blogger.com via the form that they have specifically set aside for reporting bx error code problems. You can find a link to this form by going to the Blogger Help Groups page and clicking on the blue "Resource" link which is on the right side of the page. Once you click that link, scroll down to the bottom of the page and you will see the link to report your bx error code problem.

Unfortunately when people post about them getting the bx error code screen there is not generally a quick fix for it. Blogger.com have to be aware of the error code before they can start work on solving / fixing it.

Don't assume that someone else has reported the error code. If you are unsure then report it to Blogger.com via the instructions above.

And when you do post about it please don't expect a quick fix right away. There have been some bx error code problems that have been reported and there were immediate fixes for them but that doesn't happen for the majority of bx error codes that have been reported.

The Blogger.com staff / team have to work on solving the error code first and that may take some time.

"There Is No Bypass Procedure"

There is a poll on the right side of this blog - if you don't see it just scroll down a little and you will see that it is a black box with white text.

The poll asks about the infamous bypass procedure for getting out of Blogger.com's bx error code screen. So far the majority of votes seem to be leaning towards the "there is no bypass procedure" votes.

This clearly shows me how naive people can be. Remember way back when the recording artists were looking for a way so that people couldn't copy their cds? All of that "advanced" technology went into finding a solution. They finally came up with a cd format that they thought was foolproof. Guess what? It wasn't!. Someone found out how to circumvent it. (I won't say how they found out though).

There is a way to bypass the bx error code screen on blogger. It's so simple I'm surprised that no one else has mentioned it.

It is my understanding that Blogger.com has said that there is no bypass procedure to get out of the bx error code screen.

They are wrong.

Bypassing Blogger.com's BX Error Codes - An Update!

Here is a reply that I made to someone who said that there was no bypass procedure to get out of the Blogger.com's BX error code screen:

Unfortunately you are wrong about this. I see now that I was wrong in
assuming that the Blogger staff knew about this "bypass" procedure and
I will say so in my blog.

When I was working on my blog and the error screen came on with the
offending bx error code I did a few keystrokes and got out of the
error screen and I was back to my blog template where I was able to
get back to work on my blog. Ever since then when I have gotten any
bx error code screen I just simply use the procedure again and again I
am able to get out of the error code screen and go right back to
working on my blog as if no error screen occurred. I did not clear my
cache or browser during any of these times. I have not had a problem
since with the error code screen...............................

Unfortunately you shouldn't think that just because someone receives a
"random" error code that its not an important issue to them. Many
times they may not even know that the error code that they are getting
is considered "random" and I don't think that it would be a good PR
move to mention that Blogger.com "are not concerned with the random
occurance error code(s)" because that is not sending a good message to
those bloggers that are receiving error codes that are considered
"random". They may be "random" to Blogger but they aren't considered
"random" to the people that are getting them

Never once have I called the bypass procedure a "secret" - I always
assumed that Blogger knew of the procedure but now upon reading your
post I see where you have posted that they don't know of or are aware
of any bypass procedure. The "error code" label links to my blog I
provided because those are the posts where I talk about the error code
problems and I tell people to contact the Blogger staff - which is
what I remember those error code screens saying - meaning that Blogger
wanted people to report the error codes to them. I do take issue with
what you said because I have seen you post links to specific blog
posts of yours where you tell people the same thing which is to report
their error code problems to Blogger - plus I provide a link to the
form on the side of my blog.

I also have to tell you that you are wrong about there being no bypass
to the error screen because I have used it myself to get out of the
error screen every time the error screen has showed up when I'm
working on my blog. Unfortunately just because you don't know what
the bypass procedure is doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. I know it
exists because I use it and it works. I am only assuming that the
reason why the Blogger.com staff isn't telling people about it is
because they want people to report their error codes as opposed to
just giving the bloggers the bypass procedure so that they can just
get out of the error code screen and bypass the error code screen
altogether.

So while there IS a bypass procedure to get out of Blogger.com's error code screen they don't seem to think that there is?

BX Error Code Bypass Procedure - It Turns Out That I Was Wrong!

For the past several posts I have posted about there being a way to bypass the bx error code screen. I also advised people that if they were getting the bx error code scrren and they wanted to bypass it that they should contact the Blogger.com staff and ask them for the bypass procedure.

I have come to find out from someone that is associated with Blogger.com that they don't even know of - or I should say - that they are aware of no bypass procedure - in fact they have said that there is no bypass procedure. So I was wrong in assuming that they knew of the bypass procedure. They say that there is none.

Unfortunately this just means that they aren't aware of it because there is a simple bypass procedure that lets one get out of the bx error code screen. So they aren't not telling people about the bypass procedure because to them there is no bypass procedure.

It must just be me and a few others that know about this procedure and since I haven't seen anyone else mention it but me I guess that the people that do know about it are keeping it a secret and / or just not saying anything about it.

You can rest assured that there is a simple way to bypass the bx error code screen if you get it while working on your blog. So far it has worked for me 100% of the time using two different browsers. So there is definitely a way to bypass the blogger.com error screen if you get it.