How to Transfer Ownership of a Blogger Blog
Blogger is the powerful free blogging platform owned by Google, which allows users with a Google account to create unlimited blogs with a single login. The Google account that you use to create the blog becomes the default administrator and owner of the blog. However, there may come a time when you no longer wish to run your blog and wish to hand-over ownership to another blogger. Fortunately, it isn't difficult to transfer ownership of a Blogger blog - though it does require several steps.
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Instructions
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Log-in to Blogger, using the email address that has administrator privileges.
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Click the "Settings" link in the menu, under the name of the blog.
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Click the "Permissions" tab across the top.
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Click the blue "Add Authors" button and enter the email address of the new owner of your blog. You may enter more email addresses separated by commas, if you'd like your blog to have more than one new owner.
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Click the orange "Invite" button, when you've entered all the email addresses to which you'd like to transfer ownership.
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Tell the new owner to check his email for the invitation notice. He must click the confirmation link in the invitation email to accept the invitation to become an author on your blog, before you can proceed with the ownership transfer. If he is not already a member of Blogger, he must also complete a quick, free registration.
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Return to the "Permissions" tab and click the "Grant Admin Privileges" link next to the new blog owner's information. This grants the user complete administrative control of the blog.
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Change the email address that Blogger notifies, whenever someone leaves a comment. Go to the Settings page, then click the "Comments" tab. Type the new owner's email address under Comment Notification Email. You can enter more than one email address in this field, separated by commas. Click the orange "Save Settings" button, when you're done.
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Change the email posting and mobile options to the new blog owner's information. Click the "Email and Mobile" tab and change all the information for SMS notifications of new posts, email posting and Mail2Web services to the new owner's information.
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Remove yourself as an administrator for the blog. Ask the new owner to click "Remove" next to your name in the "Permissions" tab of your settings page, and follow the instructions to confirm your removal.
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Tips & Warnings
Blogger stores all images uploaded on the Picasa Web Album of the administrator account. If your blog has any images you've uploaded for your posts, do not remove your old account as an author, or it will remove the media associated with the posts. The content of the posts will remain published.
Likewise, if you have monetized your Blogger blog with Google AdSense associated with your original blog owner account, don't remove yourself as an administrator, which will also remove your Google AdSense account code from the blog. However, if the new owner wants to monetize the blog with his own AdSense account, he should remove you and enter his AdSense account information in the "Monetize" section of the blog settings.
