Google Account Required
to Follow Google Blogger
Google has made some
changes. Please read the following so you can continue to follow your favorite blogs.
An update on Google
Friend Connect
Posted: December 21, 2015
In 2011, we announced the retirement of Google Friend
Connect for all non-Blogger sites. We made an exception for Blogger to give
readers an easy way to follow blogs using a variety of accounts. Yet over time,
we’ve seen that most people sign into Friend Connect with a Google Account. So,
in an effort to streamline, in the next few weeks we’ll be making some changes
that will eventually require readers to have a Google Account to sign into Friend
Connect and follow blogs.
As part of this plan, starting the week of January 11, we’ll
remove the ability for people with Twitter, Yahoo, Orkut or other Open Id
providers to sign in to Google Friend Connect and follow blogs. At the same
time, we’ll remove non-Google Account profiles so you may see a decrease in
your blog follower count.
We encourage you to tell affected readers (perhaps via a
blog post), that if they use a non-Google Account to follow your blog, they
need to sign up for a Google Account, and re-follow your blog. With a Google
Account, they’ll get blogs added to their Reading List, making it easier for
them to see the latest posts and activity of the blogs they follow.
We know how important followers are to all bloggers, but we
believe this change will improve the experience for both you and your readers.
Posted by Michael Goddard, Software Engineer
I am sorry if this causes any of my followers issues; but I
hope you will be willing to create a Google account; so that you can continue
to follow anyone who has a blog with blogger.
You will need to create a Google account and become a follower again; as
they will remove all the followers who do not have Google accounts.
I appreciate all of my followers and hope to see all of you
still on my followers list next year.
Thank you for taking time to read this information.
