How To Delete a Blogger Account

 
I've been doing some research on
how to delete a blogger account
I inadvertently set up. Oddly
enough, you cannot do this. Here's
what Google says:

How do I cancel my account?

I was a little surprised to learn
that you cannot delete a blogger
account. I inadvertently signed
up for blogger and now I cannot
get rid of this new account. The
account is less than one hour old
at the time of this writing.

I got myself into this situation
because I could not get to my blog
under another email address. Somehow,
I got it in my head that the screen
Google was presenting me with was
on the road to password recovery.

The screen was not on the road to
password recovery. It was a screen
to sign up for a completely new blogger
account.

This is the kind of thing that happens
to me when I act too quickly and too
precipitously. Now I have two blogger
accounts, each associated with a
different email address. The old
blogger account is legitimate, the
new one is not.

Of course, there is the nuclear
option. That's where you delete
all accounts (YouTube, for example)
associated with a given email address.

I don't wish to do that. I maintain
a YouTube account for an organization
I'm associated with. For this reason,
I do not wish to delete all accounts.
If I were to do so, I would end up deleting
a legitimate YouTube account as well.

I guess I'm stuck with a dead and empty
blogger account. This blogger account
has absolutely no posts and never will.
Not only does it not have any posts,
it does not have any blogs either.

No blogs, no posts. What's the point?

Weird, huh?

Ed Abbott

Integrating Blogger Into Your Website

I've been doing some research
into how to integrate Blogger
into your website.

Here's an article:

Integrating Blogger Into Your Website

I'm researching this because I'm
trying to figure out how the URL
part is done.

How is it that Blogger is able to
work with a sub-directory as mentioned
in the article?

The author of the above article mentions
making this URL the URL for your blog:

http://www.example.com/trends/

From a techical point of view, I don't
understand how this works.

OK. OK. I just found out how it works.

Seems that Blogger will publish to your
website via FTP. Very clever!

In order for this to work, Blogger needs
the following conditions to be present:

1. You need to pick what Blogger
   calls a classic template.
2. You have to set up an FTP directory
   on the web server where your website
   is kept
3. You need to tell blogger the name
   of the FTP sub-directory and the name
   you wish to call your main page for
   your blog, for example, blog.html
4. You need to give blogger an FTP
   login

Here's where you might theoretically
place your blog on your website:

www.example.com/blog/blog.html

Of course, the above is just the
main page for your blog. Other
pages, such as individual blog
posts, will have URLs that are
automatically generated by Blogger.

These are the general ideas you need
to incorporate to publish your blog
on your website.

If I have time, I'll get more into
specifics later.

Ed Abbott