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How To Back Up Your Blogger Blog

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We spend so much time and effort working on our blogs, why not go the extra mile and ensure your blog is there…even when your host may not be? Today, we’re giving you the tools you need to understand how to backup a Blogger blog.

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Backing Up Your Blogger Blog

If you blog on the Blogger platform (aka bloodspot), you may not realize that Google owns your blog. You are using their service for free and they have total control over the storage of your posts and comments. You might be thinking, “Hey, it’s GOOGLE. They are huge and awesome and they’re not going anywhere!” Perhaps. But even huge and awesome companies can have technological mishaps and hacker attacks.

Why Backing Up Blogger Matters

I have read about several cases where a blogger’s blog has simply disappeared. Google couldn’t explain it or get it back. I’ve also read about situations where Google decided to block a blog (not allow you to access or post) for policy violations, even when the blogger did not really (or intentionally) violate any policy. And it can be a long wait battling Google for control of your blog again.

The key to controlling your blog content is to back it up.

There is a very simple way to do this and we’ve laid out the process step-by-step below.

  1. Log into your Blogger dashboard.
  2. Click on “Settings“.
  3. Find the tab entitled, “Basic“.  Here you’ll see an option to “Export Blog“.  This will allow you to save an xml file directly to your desktop that includes all of your posts and comments.

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  4. From the Export Blog option, click on “Download Blog”.

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Back up your blog on a regular basis and you’ll never find yourself at the mercy of Google.

Keep in mind that the above instructions only allow you to backup your content.  To backup a customized blog design, you’ll next the take a few extra steps.

  1. Log into your Blogger dashboard.
  2. Click on “Design“.
  3. Find the tab entitled, “Edit HTML” and be sure to click on the box that says, “Expand Widget Template“.
  4. Finish the process by clicking on the option to “Download Full Template“.

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  2. Annie says

    Great info helped a ton. I lost my entire blog today for some reason. It just vanished and is not on any of googles cache. I feel so violated grrr. So thanks to you it will not happen again. 😀

  4. John Media @ dedicated hosting says

    Great tips I did learned a lot from this article especially backing up your blog. You can also use commentluv plugin from WordPress to increase traffic its like dofollow comments. Anyways thanks

  15. Night Owl Mama says

    This is probably one of the best tips out there!! I have heard horror stories about Mom bloggers loosing Their blogs. How devastating that would be.
    Thanks so much BAcking up right now. and every month from here on out. Thanks!

  17. Amy says

    Awesome post! While I am not on blogger, I did learn my lesson on the importance of always backing up last week!!

  18. EntertainingMom says

    Wow, thanks for the info. I did not know this. My blog at this point is a HUGE file and i worry about it taking so much space on my hard drive… any other solutions? I appreciate it!

    Jessica

  25. Diane {createdbydiane.blogspot.com} says

    I have a question about the download.
    I was able to download it, but it opens a file that is saved but opens on the web. Is there a way to save it as a file on my computer? I was not able to figure that part out. When I opened the file I saved essentially it’s a web based file now.
    .-= Diane {createdbydiane.blogspot.com}´s last post: snow =-.

  35. Tish Boyle says

    Thanks–I am a techno-illiterate, but this is something I can understand. I just backed up my blog, which seems like a sensible thing to do. Thanks!

  37. Jessica says

    I tried to back mine up but it kept loading some Big-BangX4 application, and not my blog.
    WTHeck?
    Is my blog infected or something?

    I followed every step. Can anyone help?!!
    .-= Jessica´s last post: Butter Me Up Wino =-.

  38. Eartha says

    This is great information, I’m going to share it with some of my other friends, had no idea. Gonna do it today, thanks!
    .-= Eartha´s last post: Today’s Reading – March 12, 2010 =-.