Blog URL changed - how to restore original permalink

When you change the URL of a blogspot blog, the permalink (individual post URL) also changes and if the blog already has incoming backlinks, these links will become dead links (page not found). So if you are unhappy about that, what can you do?

I would suggest going back to Blogger dashboard, click SETTINGS then PUBLISHING and change the blog URL back to the original blog URL. Of course you will need to do it fast because that option will not be available any more if another blogger has already registered that URL. If successful, all your original permalinks will be restored.

I have tested it at a test blog Computer Hardware Tips and Tricks and confirmed that after changing the blog URL back to the original, the permalink of the individual post had also been restored.

More details - original permalinks

http://computerhardwaretipsandtricks.blogspot.com/2011/05/brief-history-of-ipod.html
http://computerhardwaretipsandtricks.blogspot.com/2011/05/buying-right-notebook-computer.html

and when changed to a new blog URL, these permalinks became (those changed items in red)

http://computerhardwaretipsntricks.blogspot.com/2011/05/brief-history-of-ipod.html
http://computerhardwaretipsntricks.blogspot.com/2011/05/buying-right-notebook-computer.html

and when the blog URL revert back to its original URL, these permalinks then become changed back to the original as shown below:

http://computerhardwaretipsandtricks.blogspot.com/2011/05/brief-history-of-ipod.html
http://computerhardwaretipsandtricks.blogspot.com/2011/05/buying-right-notebook-computer.html

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Recover blog deleted as splog, TOS violation

Blogger is really going all out to delete blogs which are splogs (spam blogs) and those not confirming to their Blogger Terms of Service which unfortunately is resulting in many false positive (blogs deleted which are not splogs). I was a victim too when one of my environmental blog - Aerator - an environmental blog was deleted for supposed "TOS violation" which it is not. It is an environmental blog with an original innovation Method to increase efficiency of wastewater aerator

If yours too had been wrongly deleted, follow the steps below which I used to get my blog restored:
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Recover accidentally deleted post Part 2 with original permalink and comments

The earlier post How to recover accidentally deleted post described 4 methods of recovering deleted post of which the first 2 methods are applicable if you happened to still have access to the computer where you had prepared the deleted post or you have not closed the browser or browser tab where you had viewed the the deleted post.

Method 3 of recovering deleted post require you to find a cached copy of the deleted post on the Internet and assume that you would be satisfied with reconstructing your deleted post from scratch using the information from the cached copy. You would not be able to restore the comments or recover the original permalink, but will end using the content from the cached webpage to reconstruct the post which will probably have a different permalink from the original.

Below is described a fifth method which can considered to be an improvement to the above in the sense that you can recover the exact post as it was before it was deleted together with comments and the original permalink. Credit should be given to Tom who blog at TED Image tests for hitting upon this method of recovering the post ID from cached copies to restore deleted post.
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Advice: Never delete blog or post (And if you ever did, what to do?)

One very good reason not to delete a blog or a post, especially if the blog or post is not a relatively new one, is that deletion will lead to dead links. Take Prabha's problems for example (from a comment at Permalink SEO:

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Recover deleted blog -(undelete, restore)

Note: Testing Amazon Affiliate integration into Blogger.com's post editor with an iFrame to the left of this post (added direct from Blogger post editor):

Blogger has not too long ago introduced 3 new functions - Import blog, Export blog, Delete blog accessible via Dashboard > Settings > Basic (see screen shot below):



If you want to delete the blog, just click on Delete blog and it will be done. Now Blogger has also made it easier for you to recover (undelete) your deleted blog. If you go to the Dashboard, you will see a list of your blogs, some of which may be hidden (at the bottom of the list of blogs may be the statement for example - "displaying 4 of 5 blogs" with 1 hidden):



Click on "Show All" and the whole list of blogs, including the deleted blog, will be displayed:



Just click on "Undelete this blog" and you would have restored your accidentally deleted blog.

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Recover accidentally deleted post: How?

(If you are looking for help to recover deleted blog, refer to related posts or other related posts at the bottom of this post)

Blogger has introduced Undelete this blog for you to easily recover deleted blogs. Unfortunately there isn't a "Undelete post" yet. So if you accidentally deleted a post, how can you try to recover (undelete) the deleted post? There are 3 ways, one of which depends on the cooperation of a helper plus a good memory or clever guesswork.

Method 1

This method is applicable if you are still working on the same computer where you had prepared the post (or had viewed the deleted post). Just press ctrl+H (Cmd+H on MAC OS) to open a sidebar listing the browser history. Go to the part where you were editing the post and continue to edit or publish the post (or copy-paste from the cached copy of the displayed post):



Alternative keyboard shortcut to call up the browser is shift+ctrl+H (shift+Cmd+H for MAC OS).

Method 2

This method is applicable if you had not closed the tab or window where you had been preparing the deleted post (or had viewed the deleted post). Just keep pressing the BACK button till you get back to the point where you were editing the post (or had viewed the post).

Method 3

Try to find a cached copy of the deleted post on the Web and restore the post from the cached copy. Type in

cache:URL

to try to find cached copies on the net.

Alternatively, you can just type in some relevant search terms, especially what you can remember from the post title, into the search box and search. If the search throws up a result, click the link cached (see screen shot below) to open the cached webpage and either reconstruct a fresh post with the content from that cached webpage or alternatively use the method described in Recover accidentally deleted post including original permalink and comments to restore the post to its original state.



Another possibility is to try the Way Back Machine. For demonstration, I typed in the old pre-custom domain URL of this blog, namely http://blogger-tricks.blogspot.com into the Way Back Machine and this is what I obtained: archives of blogger-tricks.blogspot.com from Way Back Machine and below are the screen shots of the results:



and here is the screen shot of the October 8 2007 archive which showed no background color for the header and the old Google AdSense custom search box which if you compare with the current search box above, is different thus verifying that is is the actual archive of a page which now is non-existent on the Internet:



Once you have located a cached copy from the search engine, you can either copy the content and create a new post using the pasted content. However, the permalink (individual post URL) will be different from the original. If you don't want to recreate the post but want back the same permalink, then refer to Method 5: recover deleted post with original permalink.

Method 4

This is applicable even if you have no access to the computer where you had edited or viewed the deleted post, but you must have the URL (permalink) of the deleted post. If you don't have the URL, then you can try to guess the URL from the post title.

For example, the title of this post is "Recover accidentally deleted post: How?". Now I haven't published the post yet, but I can guess that this post URL will be:

http://www.bloggertipsandtricks.com/recover-accidentally-deleted-post-how

If you have or can guess the deleted post URL and you want to try to undelete the deleted post, you can try posting the post URL and your problem at Blogger Help Forum and hope to catch the attention of a Blogger Employee.

Refer to Recover accidentally deleted post with permalink intact for Method 5

Method 6. Get blog Feed

The idea for this method was obtained from Mishka. Full Success or partial success or failure with this method will depend on whether you have set your blog feed to none, full or short. If you have set blog feed to full, you will even be able to recover the images you included in your deleted post.

What you do with this method is to surf over to your blog and look for that feed icon (this section is under editing)

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