Having Problems Posting To Blogspot Blogs From Your Blogging Client?
For those of you with new blogspot.com blogs to which you are posting from a blogging client (other than the Blogger.com browser interface), you may have noticed some problems. I did a little digging and here's what I found:
Let's focus on the third item. The problem isn't your blogging client. Google/ Blogger.com has implemented word verification on new blogspot.com blogs to fight spam, and accusations of harboring spam bloggers. They are essentially trying to prevent software that automatically posts loads of entries from splogging.
But if you have a legitimate blog, it's a very easy fix. Here's what you do:
I haven't tested creating a new blog on a private domain. It's possible that word verification is required for such a blog, but I doubt it. The accusations levelled at Google/ Blogger.com are towards all the splogs residing as subdomains of blogspot.com, not at users of the Blogger.com platform per se.
Good luck. Hope this helps.
- I had no problems posting to my blogs that are on my own domains but use the Blogger.com platform.
- I had no trouble with my older blogspot.com blogs.
- I couldn't post to my newest blogspot.com blog, which was created about 3-4 days ago. I use blogspot.com as a holding area during a trial period, before registering a domain name. I later usually move the blog to the private domain.
Let's focus on the third item. The problem isn't your blogging client. Google/ Blogger.com has implemented word verification on new blogspot.com blogs to fight spam, and accusations of harboring spam bloggers. They are essentially trying to prevent software that automatically posts loads of entries from splogging.
But if you have a legitimate blog, it's a very easy fix. Here's what you do:
- Log into your blogger.com account in a browser.
- Click on the "Create" sub-tab of the "Posting" tab.
- Below the main textarea, you'll find a request to fill in a word verification. But beside the bolded text Word Verification, you'll find a little orange circle with a white question mark. Click on this icon and you'll get a new page or tab. It'll explain what's going on: "Your blog requires word verification. Blogger's spam-prevention robots have detected that your blog has characteristics of a spam blog...". Don't feel bad. Apparently they are working on their algorithms, so some blogs get classified incorrectly.
- On this explanation page, there is a word verification field, plus your email address. Just fill in the field and click "submit". Once a human confirms that your blog isn't a splog, you won't have to do a verification on each post. After that, I'm guessing you should be able to use your blog client to post.
I haven't tested creating a new blog on a private domain. It's possible that word verification is required for such a blog, but I doubt it. The accusations levelled at Google/ Blogger.com are towards all the splogs residing as subdomains of blogspot.com, not at users of the Blogger.com platform per se.
Good luck. Hope this helps.
