Blogger Says, “Your account has been disabled”Written by Abdulrehman on July 22nd, 2008
To those who have not noticed this, this blog is now fully running on my own server. I have switched from blogger and installed wordpress on my own server to run my blog, of course you cannot distinguish between the blogger hosted blog and this one because to some extent I managed to transfer the design.
Although it was a really difficult job because over at blogger the whole template of the blog is at one place, here it is all divided making it a little more complicated.However, I’ll tell you what forced me to switch to wordpress.
It was a nice morning of 15th July when I woke up and thought of checking my blog’s stats which is the first thing I always do in the morning. After that, I had an idea for an Article, after preparing the rough draft I opened blogger.com, I entered my login information and to my surprise got back the message saying ‘Your account has been disabled’.
Flabbergasted and shocked, I couldn’t believe what I saw, because that meant my sweet blog 3arn.Net was doomed, I could not control myself and it took me more than 2 hours searching for the contact form of blogger, of course it was a google page. Unfortunately all they had was radio buttons and text boxes, meaning not enough to get my blog back.
Still I sent them a report giving all information even the ID’s of my other Google Products. After 15 minutes I get an e-mail from their support saying, for security purposes they had also deleted my orkut profile.
Oh great, I sent them another report through their contact page with all the information, and then I get an e-mail back at me saying my account was re-activated, I was every happy at seeing this and immediately once again tried to login to blogger, later I got to know that they had re-activated my orkut account, and that was the end of blogger support.
This is not the first time this has happened to me, back in December 2007 all of my blogs on my blogger account were deleted with no sort of notification. I am sure that I did not break any of their TOS. So overall, I could not be a sucker to go for Blogger again.
It took me some days gaining information on wordpress and web-hosts and finally I bought a hosting package and installed wordpress on it. I had to look around on wordpress and finally got some hang of php which was more of an alien to me.
That is when the transfer started and I got this blog from ugly to pretty. I had a backup of all the articles I wrote and transfered all of them here and now finally this blog is running successfully on my own server, and now I do feel the difference.
I’m sure I am not the only one who has experienced this problem, as I encountered many others while trying to get my blog back. To help those people I’ll be writing a series soon on how to get your blog transferred to wordpress in easy steps, I’ve been through the whole process and I will surely be able to help you.
By the way, a few days back, I got an e-mail from Google surveys asking me how their support had done, and they wanted my feedback. You can just imagine the sort of feedback they would’ve gotten from me. Well click here for the only support page for blogger, it never helped me but it might help you.
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To those who have not noticed this, this blog is now fully running on my own server. I have switched from blogger and installed wordpress on my own server to run my blog, of course you cannot distinguish between the blogger hosted blog and this one because to some extent I managed to transfer the design.
Although it was a really difficult job because over at blogger the whole template of the blog is at one place, here it is all divided making it a little more complicated.However, I’ll tell you what forced me to switch to wordpress.
It was a nice morning of 15th July when I woke up and thought of checking my blog’s stats which is the first thing I always do in the morning. After that, I had an idea for an Article, after preparing the rough draft I opened blogger.com, I entered my login information and to my surprise got back the message saying ‘Your account has been disabled’.
Flabbergasted and shocked, I couldn’t believe what I saw, because that meant my sweet blog 3arn.Net was doomed, I could not control myself and it took me more than 2 hours searching for the contact form of blogger, of course it was a google page. Unfortunately all they had was radio buttons and text boxes, meaning not enough to get my blog back.
Still I sent them a report giving all information even the ID’s of my other Google Products. After 15 minutes I get an e-mail from their support saying, for security purposes they had also deleted my orkut profile.
Oh great, I sent them another report through their contact page with all the information, and then I get an e-mail back at me saying my account was re-activated, I was every happy at seeing this and immediately once again tried to login to blogger, later I got to know that they had re-activated my orkut account, and that was the end of blogger support.
This is not the first time this has happened to me, back in December 2007 all of my blogs on my blogger account were deleted with no sort of notification. I am sure that I did not break any of their TOS. So overall, I could not be a sucker to go for Blogger again.
It took me some days gaining information on wordpress and web-hosts and finally I bought a hosting package and installed wordpress on it. I had to look around on wordpress and finally got some hang of php which was more of an alien to me.
That is when the transfer started and I got this blog from ugly to pretty. I had a backup of all the articles I wrote and transfered all of them here and now finally this blog is running successfully on my own server, and now I do feel the difference.
I’m sure I am not the only one who has experienced this problem, as I encountered many others while trying to get my blog back. To help those people I’ll be writing a series soon on how to get your blog transferred to wordpress in easy steps, I’ve been through the whole process and I will surely be able to help you.
By the way, a few days back, I got an e-mail from Google surveys asking me how their support had done, and they wanted my feedback. You can just imagine the sort of feedback they would’ve gotten from me. Well click here for the only support page for blogger, it never helped me but it might help you.
I am Abdulrehman Agha, the guy behind 3arn.Net. I am 16 years old, study in grade 10 and live in Pakistan. I started this blog in the hope of making money on the internet, sharing my computer experiences and proving that despite many barriers, one can make money on the internet.
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hahaha !!! yupp i kno ur reply to Google .. man truly that waz really sumthng shitty tht google did. …. best ov luck on Word press chao !!!
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I have Bell’s Palsy and enjoy your blog very much. First time I’ve commented, but have been reading here and there.
Great blog. I enjoy reading it every chance I get and value your opinions!
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I hope wordpress works out for me!
Thanks a lot for commenting!
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I still don’t get it.. why this can happened.
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You are not the only who got his blogspot blog suspended. I got it on my first blog.
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The same thing have happened to me…
and no matter whatever i do i cannot fond bloggers contact page…
tell me how to contact google !!
there were five well known blogs i own….and i can’t update them now…
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This is happening to me now. * sob sob* My blogs are being held hostage and google’s response :
“Thank you for your report. We’ve completed our investigation. Because our
investigation was INCONCLUSIVE, we are unable to return your account at
this time. We’ve disabled access to this account for your security. Please
note that disabling protects your account from further abuse. If you used
orkut with this account, we’ve deleted the orkut profile. At Google we
take the privacy and security of our users very seriously. For this
reason, we’re unable to reveal any further information about this account.
If you have additional information about your account, we encourage you to
visit http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/request.py?ara=1 and
submit another report. Be sure to provide as much information as possible
about the account. If you’re not sure about something, provide your best
guess.”
I gave them all of the info I could think of and there’s no way to write to them to tell them what happened before the hostage. I don’t know how I can recover my blogs there- I thought I’ll transfer/ import it to wordpress but that is not possible if the account is disable.
Sorry for the long rant. I just getting hopeless by the minute.
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Well as For Anique and Jade, it is all hope less now. The best solution is to get hosting and install wordpress and live your blog’s life in complete freedom!
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If you guys will go to http://www.bizstone.com and leave a comment on his blog with your problems, I’m most sure he can help you out.
He works at Google and has written two books on Blogging. He helped to create blogger, so he knows almost everything about it.
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He can only be useful if he works at the support team of Google, otherwise its no use. You think that their team don’t know what we’re talking about? They’re not that stupid, they’re just determined to not return the account!
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Best of luck for the future!
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ouch, that sucks. thanks for the tip, I’ll have to back up my blogs here on blogger. Thanks a lot.
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I wanted to research this subject and write a paper. Your post what a thousand words would not. Nice job.
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@ Lily
Yea you should back up as soon as possible before you get busted like I did
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I’m glaa that I could be of help to you.
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Hi all!
Nice site!
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i gave you a thumbs down because i felt like it. have a good day sir.
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I had 5 blogger blogs suspended all at once about three months ago. Actually, they were sort of mini blogs that I built to link to a niche site that I had. I know that’s not what blogger blogs are for, and it was a bit spammy, so I deserved to have them taken down. The funny thing, though, is that the blogs themselves were good blogs with good content and really did not deserve to be disabled. I decided to request a manual review for one of them, just to see what would happen. Then all of a sudden, just a few days later, all 5 were back up and running as though nothing had ever happened. I still don’t know what the problem was or why they were singled out, but it hasn’t happened since. In fact, I’ve since built more mini blogger blogs to link to other sites and haven’t had any more problems.
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Nice information it would be helpful to all the bloggers and also will have to take as red alert in using blogger,
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Its scary! god bless me
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I really hate those big companies, they just close our account without saying what was the problem. Their customer support is very terrible. All they do is copy paste answer and we don’t have anything to do to get our account back.
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What a great website yaar.You rock.
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Thanks for this post, I still have Blogger blogs and just went and backed them up and will make it a habit do this going forward after every post.
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I’ll also start working on migrating to my own host (but even an independent host can have its own problems so beware
Steven-Sanders, thanks for the link.
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Blogger is not reliable. They will always keep deleting your bogs for no reason. I myself got a few of my blogs deleted and after deleting google will always give the same shitty excuse… spaming. They say they are trying hard to fight spam. I think they discriminate and they are biased.
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gr8 post this make me scared of blogger dot com,i m thanksfull to god that any thing like this has not hppnd yet with me and i too want to shift my blog to dot com so i will read your other posts that i think will help me..nice website dude……..!!!!!!!!
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