Bloglovin FAQs

Here at Bloglovin', we know that having unwanted followers can be a hassle and we are working to provide a solution.

Unfortunately, as of right now there is no way to block followers on Bloglovin'.

You should be able to add your blog by searching for its full URL (i.e. patrikring.blogg.se) using the Bloglovin search (located at the topof the page).

If Bloglovin' fails to find your blog it might be due to a problem with your blog's RSS feed. See " How do I check if my RSS feed is valid? " for instructions how to check this.

In order for a blog to work with Bloglovin, it will require a valid 2.0 RSS-feed. Without this, Bloglovin will not be able to find your blog's content in order to populate your profile. While we have no control over your RSS feed on our end, you should be able to work with your blog provider to configure this correctly.

Once you have a valid RSS-feed, send us the address, and we can make sure this is correctly integrated with Bloglovin. Once you get a valid RSS feed, we will be able to help you further.

If you still can't add your blog, please contact support and we will help you as soon as possible.

Add a Bloglovin' Widget

Adding a Bloglovin' widget to your blog, which makes it easier for your readers to find your blog on Bloglovin'. You can find our widgets here:

bloglovin.com/widgets

Once you generate the code for a widget, how you add it to your blog will depend on what platform you're using. We offer the following guide with the steps for several popular platforms here.

Be active on Bloglovin

Love and save posts, follow other bloggers, and follow back when people follow you. When users love or save your posts, it shows up in their news feeds, so their followers get introduced to your content.

Cross-promote your Bloglovin profile

We recommend doing a giveaway or contest on other social platforms requiring users to follow you on Bloglovin to enter.

You can also connect your Bloglovin' account to your Facebook account, you can do so here:

https://www.bloglovin.com/myblog

both to find friends and share your blog updates.

If you're ready to begin building your blog into a business, be sure to review our class on Skillshare.

We'd love to hear from you! The best way to contact Bloglovin' support is by opening a ticket here.Or send us an email to [email protected].

So you signed up for Bloglovin' and want to claim your blog, eh? You've come to the right place! Take a look at our step-by-step guide below.

If you don't already have a blog, read this!

From your Bloglovin' homepage, search for your blog's full URL in the search bar here.

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If you can't find your blog in the search, make sure that the URL contains a valid RSS feed. For instructions look here.

Once you're on your blog's Bloglovin' page, click "Claim it." (Alternatively, go to " My blog "on Bloglovin' and click on "Claim blog.")

This will display a box with the title "Paste this text into a new blog post" and an HTML code, starting with "<a href..." copy this code (click in the box and then press CTRL+A, or CMD+A on a Mac, and then CTRL+C, or CMD+C on Mac, to make sure you have copied everything).

Sign in on your blog and go to the page where you would write a new blog post. Create a new post, and then paste the code into the HTML dialogue of the blogging site you use. See how to get to the HTML dialogue for Wordpress, Blogger, and Squarespace below.

Wordpresscreate a new post and then follow these instructions.

Switch to the HTML entry form.

Paste your copied HTML code from Bloglovin' in this window, publish when finished.

Voila!

Bloggercreate a new post and then follow these instructions.

Switch to the HTML entry form.

Paste your copied HTML code from Bloglovin' in this window, publish when finished.

Done!

Squarespacecreate a new post and then follow these instructions.

Add a new block to your post.

Scroll down and choose the "Code" option.

Paste your copied HTML code from Bloglovin' in this window, publish when finished.

Wixcreate a new post and then follow these instructions.

Add the text "Follow my blog on Bloglovin" and highlight it.Click on the link icon.

Select "Web Address" and paste the URL provided by Bloglovin. Remove the surrounding code.

Click OK and publish the post.

Once your post is published, return to the Bloglovin' window and press the button underneath the text you copied earlier labeled, "Claim blog." If you accidentally closed the window, click to reopen it!

When these steps are done, your blog will be verified as yours and you will be able to change its information on Bloglovin'! Happy blogging!

Bloglovin' knows that sometimes you will receive unwanted emails, and you can always unsubscribe from them. Below are two options on how to properly unsubscribe. Please follow the guide below for more information.

You can always unsubscribe at the bottom of the email here:

You can also always log into your Bloglovin' account and manually unsubscribe from these emails:

First, you'll want to click on your profile image. Then proceed to visit the settings tab:

Once you have clicked on Settings, you will be prompt to the Emails & Settings tab on the left hand- side. Once there, you can then click on None or edit notifications to your liking.

Hope this helps!

Were proud to introduce Blogging on Bloglovin! It's more connected and it's easier than ever to publish content on the go.

Publish from anywhere. Easy to use on the go - create a post, right from your phone.

Simple and integrated. No need for HTML or templates, your blog is integrated into the Bloglovin platform.

Reach more readers. We will promote posts to our 10 million users and do our best to help you grow your audience.

To get started:

Clickthe "New Post!" button on the top right button of your screen:

You are now brought to the publishing page. Here, you can write and add photos about anything you wish.

We recommend including at least one photo in every post to help catch the eye of your audience.

To remove or move an image after it's been added, simply hover over it with your mouse and select the following options:

To style your text or add a link, simply select the text:

Once you're happy with your post, click the Post button:

Select the "Add tags..." field to add tags. When you're finished typing a tag, hit the comma key or return on your keyboard.

Don't forget to select the social media platforms you'd like to promote your post through.

Finally, click Post again to publish your post on Bloglovin'!

Visit your user profile at any time to view your published posts!

If you're using another RSS reader and you'd like to import your subscriptions to Bloglovin, you can do this by exporting your subscriptions to an OPML file. Services like Feedly provide this option here: http://feedly.com/i/opml Once you have an OPML file, you can use our importer to move your subscriptions to Bloglovin: http://www.bloglovin.com/import

If you're not sure what an RSS feed is, see " What is RSS? ".

Your feed must be valid in order for Bloglovin to find your blog. You can use this feed validator to see if the RSS feed is valid or not. Enter the address of your RSS feed and hit "Check".

If your feed is invalid, you'll have to contact whom is responsible for the technical issues of your blog for assistance.

Bloglovin' is looking for images associated with the posts in your blog's RSS (See " What is RSS? ").

If your images are not included in the RSS, they will have to be added to this feed in order for Bloglovin' to be able to find and display them. Please contact whoever is responsible for the technical issues of your blog for further assistance.

If the images are already included in the RSS but still not showing up on Bloglovin', they might be too large. For optimal quality and loading time, make sure the images are at least 310 px in width while remaining under 2 MB in size.

If you can't remember your password, click on the "Forgot your Password?" link beneath the Log In buttonon our LogIn pagehere:

https://www.bloglovin.com/login

Contact Support

If you're still having trouble, please using the email address associated with your account.

If you get a message that your email address is not registered on Bloglovin, you don't have an account on Bloglovin yet. You can get an account by signing up.

If you've forgotten your password, try resetting your password.

If Bloglovin sent you an email you should receive it within a few minutes - otherwise wait a few hours and be sure to check any junk mail folder. If it still doesn't show up, contact us with the email address associated with your account.

When youSaveor Love a post on Bloglovin', this post is made available in your profile.

To access your profile, click on your profile icon on the upper right side of bloglovin.com, followed by the word "Profile":

From here, you can find your saved postsfrom the Collections tab by clicking the collection it was saved to:

and your Loved posts from the Loves tab:

Yes you can!

First, make sure that you've claimed both of your blogs.

Once both blogs are claimed, navigate to" My blog " andselectyour original blog:

From the "Move Followers" dropdown menu, select the blog you'd like to move your followers to:

This will remove your original blog and move your followers to your new blog of choice.

Please note that the move will not beinstantaneousand can take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours.

RSS - sometimes calledRSS feedor justfeed- is a web format used to find blog posts in an easy and efficient way.

Bloglovin' must have access to your blog's RSS feed to be able to find your posts and display them. Since RSS is a very strict format, everything must be formatted correctly. If one bit is off, Bloglovin' will not be able to find your latest posts.

You can check if your RSS feed is valid with a feed validator.

It's also important that the page URL you're adding to Bloglovin', features the RSS feed within it's code. If you're not sure how to check this,you'll want to work with your blog provider, or whoever helped you with the technical aspects of your blog.

Claiming your blog on Bloglovin' acts as a proof thatyouown the blog - and therefore we can give you extra information about it on Bloglovin' as well as grant you access to change it's information, for example description, category and thumbnail.

If you ever want to move your blog to a new address or platform, or you lose access to your blog, etc.,we have a greater chance of helping you if you have already previously claimed your blog, since we know that you are the true owner.

A blog can exist on Bloglovin without any Bloglovin account directly connected to it.

This means you probably do not have a Bloglovin account yet.However, you can create an account and then claim your blog to get access to it.

First, log into the Bloglovin' account you wish to remove here.

Once logged in, go to " Settings " and click on "Deactivate" at the bottom of the page.

If you're having trouble, contact our support team using the link below using the email address associated with your account.

Bloglovin' is meant to be a service where you can follow any blog with a public RSS-feed.Since we are a topsource of traffic for many of the blogs featured on our service, we don't ofter hear requests from bloggers to remove their blog.

To prevent services such as Bloglovin' from using your blog, you can make your RSS private or turn it off. For further instructions on how to do this please contact whoever is responsible for the technical issues of your blog for further assistance.

If your blog is no longer publicly available, feel free to let us know by submitting a request using the link below this article and we will remove it for you.

Important!

Bloglovin is here to help bloggers, we are not trying to steal your traffic.

You are in total control of what content from your website appears on bloglovin.com

What is RSS?

RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication", and is a technology designed to help publishers reach more people.

RSS is a technology on the internet that syndicates your blog posts in a structured way so that other computers can read them easily.

Another way of thinking about it is that web pages are designed to be read by people, RSS is a copy of your website designed to be read by computers.

If you are using a blogging platform, every time you write a post, you are also publishing to your RSS feed (unless you turn it off).

Millions of people then use apps or websites called RSS Readers to read the content that people are publishing.

As a blogger you have total control over this RSS feed, there are typically three easy to use options:

Put my entire blog post into my RSS feed

Put a summary of my blog post into my RSS feed

Do not publish anything to my RSS feed

How does Bloglovin use RSS?

Every day, Bloglovin reads millions of RSS feeds from all over the internet. When our computers find updates in your RSS feed, we read them and include them on our platform so that our millions of users can easily discover that content. We link directly to your original work and send readers to your website. This is very good for you as a blogger! Bloglovin uses RSS to help you!

Bloglovin uses RSS to help more people discover your blog

Bloglovin uses RSS to help your readers to never miss a post from your blog

Bloglovin uses RSS to send traffic to your website.

What does Bloglovin' do with my content?

Once we discover new content via your RSS feed we incorporate it into our platform in a few different ways.

First, we update your blog's profile page on our platform, this page contains a summary of ever post on your blog.

Next, we create a page on our site where your content lives, this page has a canonical URL pointing to your blog post and ensures that google and others know that you are the creator. You get all the credit for the post. We prominently display your blog's name and URL, and link directly to the original post.

Thirdly, we index your blog post into our search engine to help readers find it. If your RSS feed contains any tags that you added to your post we add those into our search engine too.

Next, we updated everyone's feed who follows your blog to contain a summary of your post that links to your blog.

Most of our users also receive a daily email that contains a list of new posts from blogs they are following, or posts that we think they might like, your post might also appear in these emails.

We also curate the best of the internet into our weekly newsletters, if your post is chosen by our curators millions of people will see your blog post!

Our mobile app users might receive a copy of your post if they follow your blog or if we recommend it to them, the app always links to your website too.

Finally we might start including your post in our recommendations across the platform, we do this based on how the posts are categorized and based on who is reading them. This helps people find your content that otherwise might never see it!

Is Bloglovin' stealing my traffic?

All RSS readers are reading what you publish and sharing it with people. Those people do not have to visit your website to read your posts.

Bloglovin is different.

On bloglovin.com, when people click on your post, we send them directly to your blog. As a blogger it's important for you to know that other RSS readers might not be sending you traffic, but bloglovin.com does!

At Bloglovin our mission is to help influencers succeed. If you succeed we succeed, so it is very much in our best interest to help bloggers! Bloglovin sends a ton of traffic to blogs, this is one of our main benefits to bloggers.

Our reading experience is designed so that READER ARE SENT TO YOUR BLOG, they read your posts in the format that you designed, they see any ads that you might have on your page, and your analytics will include them as visitors.

You may see your site appearing underneath our "Bloglovin frame" which we have built to help readers navigate to the other content they love. You are still receiving all the page views inside the frame.

Because we are including the content that you publish via RSS on our platform, it is possible that some people will consume the content directly in bloglovin and not always visit your site. This might happen if they see the title of your post in their feed or elsewhere and decide not to click on it.

When people share posts from bloglovin to social networks, we link those people back to your content on bloglovin.com. This helps people discover our platform and in turn, your blog.

At times we experiment with different ways of displaying content in an attempt to increase the number of visitors that we can send to bloggers.

What can I do?

If you do not want to be a part of bloglovin you can contact our support team and have your blog removed. This is probably not in your best interest because you will lose the SEO benefits of having our platform linking to your blog, our readers will no longer be informed when you publish new posts, no one will discover your blog through our system, and we will never include your posts in our emails that reach millions of people.

If you don't want a full copy of your blog posts to appear on Bloglovin, you can truncate your RSS feed to include only a summary. Since how this is configured varies between blogging services, for help with updating this, you'll want to work with your blog provider, or whoever helped you with the technical aspects of your blog.

We've just released a feature to allow for users to remove posts from their claimed blogs! To use this, navigate to your blog's profile, click the "..." beneath your post and select the Delete option:

Yes, you can sort your subscriptions into different groups and unfollow blogs here:

http://www.bloglovin.com/subscriptions

Go to Search and type in the full url of the blog you want to add.

If your blog isn't adding, you'll want to make sure the page URL you're using contains a valid RSS feed. If you don't know what an RSS-feed is, read this.

If you do not already have a blog, click here!

Let us know if you can't find a blog you're looking for!

First make sure you have claimed your blog.

Then, you should now be able to find your blog within your settings :

Once you've selected your blog, click the Edit option next to the Name field.

When you have changed the name, click on "Save" to save your settings.

First make sure you have claimed your blog.

You should now be able to find your blog on " My blog ".

Select your blog to find the option to find the option to find the Category dropdown:

When you have chosen a category,Bloglovin' will immediately update your profile.

Yes, you can claim as many blogs as you have from one account. If you go to your account Settings you can find this option by clicking "Claim another blog":

You can find our widgets on " Bloglovin Button "

On Bloglovin', you can decide what blogs you wish to follow publicly and what blogs you wish to follow anonymously. You can update these settings per blog here:

http://www.bloglovin.com/subscriptions

If you check your blogs profile on Bloglovin' and then click "followers" you will see a list offollowerswho have not chosen to follow privately.

You can manage your email preferences by logging into your account and accessing your settings here:

https://www.bloglovin.com/settings/email

From this page, you can select which notifications you receive or unsubscribe from them all by unchecking "Get Email Notifications":

Go to " Settings ". At the top of the page it says "Email". In the box you have to enter the new email address you want to change to and then scroll down to the bottom of the page and click "save".

Within a few hours you will receive an email to your new address containing a link. Click this link to confirm and change your address!

This might happen when a blog has two or more different addresses to it's RSS feed. Since it's not always easy to know when two different addresses link to the same RSS feed, unfortunately, one blog may appear multiple times on Bloglovin'. If you notice this is the case, feel free to submit a request to our support team along with the blog URL so we can merge them into a single functioning profile.

The tags for your blog profile are automatically generated by how your followers have categorized your blog. As you gain more followers, the more tags that will display and the more accurate they will be.

Tags for specific posts are determined by how they are categorizedin your RSS feed. Howe you can manage your post's tags will depend on what blogging platform you're using. Here are some guides for edit posts for some popular blogging platforms:

Squarespace

Blogger

Weebly

There is not a way to manually add or remove tagsfrom your blog at this time.

It is possible to comment on blogs through Bloglovin if the blog has the right settings and allows commenting through Bloglovin. Only the owner of the blog can manage these settings.

If your readers are having trouble commenting on your blog, and your blog is hosted by Blogger, then go to the 'Dashboard'>'Settings'>'Posts and Comments'. Make sure the 'Comment Location' is set on either 'Embedded' or 'Pop Up Window'.

You can update both your username and change your username here:

https://www.bloglovin.com/settings/profile

We keep all posts for a minimum of two weeks, however, you can always save a post.