How to delete your Blogger account
Blogger is Google's free blog-hosting service, launched by Pyra Labs in 1999 and owned by Google since 2003. It still hosts millions of *.blogspot.com sites, and it holds far more than your published writing: every post, page and unpublished draft, all images and videos you uploaded, the full comment thread on each post (including commenters' names and profile links), your Blogger profile (display name, profile photo, "About Me" text, location, occupation, interests, listed blogs and profile view count), per-post traffic statistics and referrer data, follower and email-subscriber lists, custom-domain and AdSense linkage — all tied to the Google Account you signed up with. Because Blogger is a Google service, deleting a blog and deleting the identity behind it are two completely separate actions.
Delete your Blogger account, step by step
- 1Sign in to Blogger at blogger.com on a desktop browser using the Google Account that administers the blog — only an administrator can delete a blog
- 2Back up first if you want a copy: in the left menu click "Settings", scroll to "Manage blog", click "Back up content" then "Download" — or go to blogger.com/go/takeout to export via Google Takeout (Google's help article offers both routes)
- 3At the top left, click the blog selector and choose the blog you want to delete
- 4In the left menu, click "Settings"
- 5Scroll down to the "Manage blog" section
- 6Click "Remove your blog", then confirm by clicking "Delete"
- 7The blog now appears under "Trashed blogs" at the top left of the Blogger dashboard — it is still restorable at this point via "Undelete"
- 8To make it irreversible immediately, click the blog under "Trashed blogs", click "Permanently delete", then click "Permanently delete" again to confirm
- 9Repeat steps 3-8 for every blog on the account — Blogger has no "delete all blogs" action
- 10To also remove your Blogger profile and Blogger data from your Google Account, go to myaccount.google.com/deleteservices (or myaccount.google.com/data-and-privacy, scroll to "Data from apps and services you use", select "Delete a Google service") and click the Delete icon next to Blogger if it appears in the list for your account
- 11To delete the underlying Google identity entirely (Gmail, Drive, YouTube and everything else with it), go to myaccount.google.com/deleteaccount and follow the prompts
What actually happens when you delete
Gets removed
- ✓All posts, pages and unpublished drafts on the blog, plus the images and videos embedded in them
- ✓Every comment left on your blog, including comment threads and reader replies
- ✓The blog's theme, layout, gadgets/widgets and all customisation
- ✓The blog's Blogger Stats data — pageviews, traffic sources and audience breakdowns
- ✓The blogspot.com address itself: Google's help article states that after a permanent delete you cannot restore the blog or use the URL again
- ✓Your Blogger profile page (display name, photo, 'About Me', listed blogs) if you additionally use 'Delete a Google service' or delete the whole Google Account
Stays behind
- ✗Your Google Account and every other Google service on it — Gmail, Drive, Photos, YouTube, Google Play — unless you delete those separately
- ✗Comments you posted on other people's Blogger blogs: those live on their blogs and are not removed when your own blog is deleted
- ✗Google Search index entries — old titles and snippets pointing at the dead blogspot.com URLs — until Google recrawls and drops them
- ✗Third-party archives you don't control: the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, RSS aggregators, scraper sites and anyone who reposted your content
- ✗Copies inside Google's active and backup systems for a period after deletion — Google's privacy policy states that 'there may be delays between when you delete something and when copies are deleted from our active and backup systems'
- ✗Any custom domain you pointed at the blog stays registered with your domain registrar and keeps billing you until you cancel it there
- ✗Linked AdSense account, earnings history and the tax/payment records Google is required to keep for it
Before you delete
The single biggest gotcha: "Remove your blog" is not the end of the story. The blog goes to "Trashed blogs" and is still restorable, and your Blogger profile plus your entire Google Account remain untouched — many people think they have deleted themselves from Blogger when they have only trashed one blog. Conversely, "Permanently delete" is genuinely irreversible: Google states you cannot restore the blog or use its URL again, and support cannot bring it back. Google does not publish how long the trash window lasts, so do not count on it. Only the blog administrator can delete a blog. Take a Google Takeout export (blogger.com/go/takeout, which produces a feed.atom file you can re-import into another Blogger blog) BEFORE deleting, because there is no post-deletion export. Deleting the blog does not cancel a custom domain at your registrar, does not close a linked AdSense account, and does not remove comments you left on other people's blogs. Google's privacy policy also warns that deleted data can persist in active and backup systems for some time after the deletion request.
Download your data from Blogger first
Most platforms only honor a data-export request while the account is still active. Do this before you delete.
- 1Go to blogger.com/go/takeout and sign in with the Google Account that administers the blog — this redirects to Google Takeout pre-filtered to Blogger
- 2Alternatively, sign in to Blogger, click the blog at the top left, click "Settings" in the left menu, and under "Manage blog" click "Back up content" then "Download"
- 3In Takeout, choose your delivery method (email link, Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive or Box), export type, file format (Zip or Tgz) and archive size, then create the export
- 4Wait for the email with the download link — Google says the process 'could take from a few minutes to a few days', most people get the link the same day, the archive 'expires in about 7 days', and each archive can only be downloaded 5 times
- 5Unzip the archive and open Takeout > Blogger > Blogs > [blog name] to find the feed.atom file containing your posts, pages and comments — this is the file you re-import into another Blogger blog
- 6To keep your theme separately: in Blogger click "Theme" in the left menu, click the down arrow icon next to the CUSTOMIZE button, click "Backup", then click "DOWNLOAD"
Want to take a break instead? Deactivate
Deactivation hides your profile without permanently destroying it. Logging back in restores everything.
- 1Sign in to Blogger at blogger.com
- 2At the top left, click the blog you want to hide
- 3In the left menu, click "Settings"
- 4Under "Permissions", click "Reader access"
- 5Choose "Private to authors" (all authors of your blog can access and read it) or "Custom readers" (only the readers you invite can access and read it)
- 6Optionally, under "Privacy", turn off "Listed on Blogger" (allows people to link to your blog from Blogger.com or other blogs) and "Visible to search engines" (allows search engines to find your blog)
If deletion fails — or you live in the EU, UK, or California
You have a legal right to request erasure of your personal data under GDPR (EU/UK) and CCPA (California). Use these official channels if the self-service flow doesn't work.
Blogger deletion FAQs
Does deleting my Blogger blog delete my Google Account?+
No. Deleting a blog only removes that blog. Your Google Account, Gmail, Drive, YouTube and your Blogger profile all stay intact. To remove Blogger itself from your account, use myaccount.google.com/deleteservices (Google Account > Data & privacy > 'Data from apps and services you use' > 'Delete a Google service'). To wipe the whole identity, use myaccount.google.com/deleteaccount — that one takes Gmail and everything else with it.
Can I get my blogspot.com address back after deleting the blog?+
Only while the blog is still in the trash. Google's help article is explicit that permanently deleting a blog removes all its information, posts and pages, that you cannot restore it, and that you cannot use the URL again. So if you might want the name later, leave the blog in 'Trashed blogs' rather than hitting 'Permanently delete', or make it private instead.
How long do I have to undelete a Blogger blog?+
Google does not publish a number. The official article only says a blog can be restored for a limited period after deletion, via 'Trashed blogs' > 'Undelete' at the top left of the dashboard. Treat that window as unknown and short: export a Google Takeout backup (blogger.com/go/takeout) before you delete, because once the window closes or you hit 'Permanently delete', Google cannot recover the content. Anyone quoting a specific figure such as 90 days is repeating community folklore, not Google documentation.
How do I delete an old Blogger blog when I've lost the login?+
First try recovery: use blogger.com/forgot.g to look up the email address tied to the blog, then Google Account recovery for the password. If that fails, Blogger's help page 'Can I delete my blog without account access?' (support.google.com/blogger/answer/7538420) has a request form. Google says it will delete the blog only if it can verify you are the sole author with no other recent contributions, and it may still refuse if it judges the blog newsworthy or in the public interest, or if authorship can't be verified because the blog was anonymous or pseudonymous. It also only processes requests to delete an entire blog, not part of one.
Why is my deleted blog still showing up in Google search?+
Deleting the blog removes the pages, but Google's search index updates on its own crawl schedule, so old titles and snippets can linger for days or weeks. You can speed that up with Google's Remove Outdated Content tool at search.google.com/search-console/remove-outdated-content, which works once the page is genuinely gone. Nothing you do on Blogger affects the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine — that needs a separate request to archive.org.
Can I hide my blog instead of deleting it?+
Yes, and it is the reversible option. In Blogger go to Settings > Permissions > 'Reader access' and choose 'Private to authors' (all authors of the blog can read it) or 'Custom readers' (only readers you invite). You can also switch off 'Listed on Blogger' and 'Visible to search engines' under Settings > Privacy, which stop the blog being linked from Blogger.com and found by search engines. The content and the URL stay yours, and nothing is destroyed.
I'm just an author on someone else's blog — can I delete it?+
No. Google's help article is clear that only an administrator can delete a blog. As a non-admin author you can remove yourself from the blog and delete your own posts, but you cannot remove the blog or other people's content. Ask an administrator, or use the no-account-access request form if the blog is genuinely yours and you have been locked out.
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