Sunday, July 15, 2007

How to Move a Blog to a Different Gmail Account

After some digging, I finally figured out how to move a blog from one Gmail account to a different Gmail account. So here is what I did.

  1. Sign in at Blogger to your Blog. Navigate to:
    Dashboard> Settings>Permissions>Blog Authors and invite the email account you want to become the blog admin/owner.

  2. Signout and then login to the Gmail account that you just invited as an Author. Accept the invitation, which will also log you into the blog. Sign out of the blog AND the Gmail account.

  3. Now signin to your Blogger account with the original username.

  4. Navigate to: Dashboard> Settings>Permissions>Blog Authors. Next to the new Author, it says 'guest'. Click 'guest' to change it to Admin. Sign-out of this account.

  5. Now signin to your blog with the NEW Admin account you just created.

  6. Navigate to: Dashboard> Settings>Permissions>Blog Authors and then change the old Admin to guest by clicking on 'Admin'. You can now click on 'Remove' to complete the move to the new Admin.

TIP: BE very aware of which account you are in and make sure you logout of the Gmail account when you are done with step 2.

Thanks to The Real Blogger Status for how to do this, I just made the instructions more detailed. Good tips there on managing your blog.

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