One of the plus/minus factors in the social media universe is the immortality of material that you post on the web. If you write an ill-advised comment on someone else’s blog, it’s there forever (unless you convince the blogger to remove it). However, the same isn’t true of a blog you write yourself; it’s not hard to hide your blog from public view or delete it completely.
If you haven’t posted anything to your blog in a long time (definition of “a long time”…maybe 6 months?), it’s debatable whether the blog is an asset to your networking or marketing efforts. If you use WordPress, you can hide your blog by going to Settings>Privacy and then selecting the most restrictive privacy level, where you must approve each user who can view your blog. If you want to delete the blog entirely, go to Settings>Delete blog. Note that at least in WordPress, deleting your blog is irreversible. If you have *any* inkling that you might use your blog posts for something in the future, either just hide the blog as described above, or back up the blog to an XML file before you delete it (in WordPress, go to Tools>Export). Or better yet, start blogging again!
Hi Corinne.
In Blogger you can do the same: From the Dashboard, go to you blog settings go to Permissions, and apply the most restrictive settings. Then go to the Basic tab, select No for Add your blog to our listings? and for Let search engines find your blog?.
In Blogger it is also possible to delete your blog completely, but, again, if you have any idea that you might want to use your blog again, first backup everything.
One thing, though. Once you have deleted your blog, I think that any cached copy still present on the Internet (e.g., in the waybackmachine) would still be there.
Great advice for a novice blogger. Thanks for sharing! I am still undecided on which platform to use. All the “gurus” seem to promote a self-hosted platform. Any advice on this?
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Good article for advice. About a blog i d like to ask you if you have a multilinguage site is must to translate the articles to all languages?