When a blogging account is deleted

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Deleting an account might delete the blog or blogs it owns—but it might not. ¶ 

And deleting the account might have other effects on a blog, too.

Accounts can only be deleted by the account owner or, under some circumstances, by Google.

All Blogger accounts today are Google accounts. Any pre-Google "legacy" accounts not converted to Google (many were) have been deleted.

What gets gone

Deleting the sole account on a blog will delete the blog, along with everything else in the account.

If there is more than one account on the blog, deleting means

• the blog will persist
• the blog posts from the deleted account will also persist
• comments made on Blogger from the deleted accounts will persist too, but will be anonymized.

Author accounts

For a team blog, if the deleted account was the sole administrator, ownership will pass to one or more non-admin authors, who will become administrators.

However, images uploaded from the deleted account will be deleted and replaced with this:

Recommendation

The simplest best practice is this: Never delete a Google account.

Deleting can have unexpected side effects and can't be reversed after 90 days.

Keeping the account costs you nothing, and avoids regret down the road.

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