Ways to Recover the Deleted Blog Posts on Blogspot

 Ways to Recover the Deleted Blog Posts on Blogspot

Reached here from Google or any other search engine to find how to recover deleted blog posts instantly? Well, you’ve come to the right place. By the end of this post, you would just say.

Yeah! I got my lost blogger posts :-)

If you’re a professional blogger and work day and night to write quality blog posts, there may be a time in your blogging journey when you suddenly lost or accidentally deleted your blog post.

Rather, that’s the time when you feel very sad :-(

Because it takes a lot of hard work and hours of continuous working to write SEO friendly blog posts. So today in this post, I will show you how to recover deleted blog posts if you randomly deleted one.

Well, it’s not important how many quality blog posts you publish every day to claim the #1 search engine position. But it is all about how much quality contents your website/blog has. Content writers & pro bloggers spend several hours online to post quality content. And of course, they will never want to waste their hours of hard work.

Either you or someone who has access to your blogger account may have deleted your blog posts accidentally.

Currently, the blogger interface doesn’t have a feature that allows users to recover deleted blog post. BlogSpot doesn’t have any trash folder to retrieve deleted the blog post yet.

Easy Methods to Recover Deleted Blogger Blog Post

Here are 4 working methods that can help you to recover deleted blog posts and pages. Use the Google Page Cache, Blogger Draft Post, Google FeedBurner and Way Back Machine – Web Archive to recover a post.

These are several possible ways to recover deleted blog posts and undo the action but only if you are lucky enough.

At least you should give the following ways a try. Let’s see how to restore the deleted blogger blog posts.

#1 Recover Deleted Blog Post with Google Cache

Whenever a webmaster publishes an article, Google automatically indexes and saves those pages as a cache version. And, keeps update it whenever any changes made to that web pages.

Technically, this process called the search engine crawler system.

Maybe, your deleted blog posts should have crawled and indexed by the Google search engine to perform a deleted blogger post-recovery.

How long does Google take to index a new page?

It depends upon the search engine crawl rate for a blog and which is something depends on robots.txt file.

If a blog gets much fresh content daily, there are high chances for a higher crawler rate.

And, newly published posts usually crawls and indexes within an hour or even in a couple of minutes. However, if you don’t release new articles daily, the crawl rate may be slower.

Find the Google Cache Version of Deleted Blog Posts

To recover a deleted blog post from Google cache, you will be needed to find the web cache URL.

1. Go to Google.com and type site:yourblog.blogspot.com + deleted post title. If you know the post URL of the deleted post, then just type cache:DeletedBlogPostURL in the browser address bar to immediately view the cached version.

2. For the search query of site:yourblog.blogspot.com + deleted post title, Google will show the all possible indexed pages. Identify the deleted blog post from the list.

3. Hit the tiny drop-down arrow button available in the right-side of the permalink and click on Cached to load the page in Google user content web cache.

4. That’s It! If you found the erased blog post, that’s great. Copy the entire post content & images in Microsoft Office Word for future use. Follow the steps below to publish the cache version of the deleted blog post.

Publish the Cache Version of Deleted Blog Post

Using the above steps, you can simply copy and republish the post from Google cache. But practicing this rule, you can’t get your blog traffic and comments back to the stats you were receiving in the past.

To get back the search engine organic traffic and comments from the original blog post. Here’s the way-

You’ll be needed to restore the deleted blog post with the same permalink it was earlier at blog deletion time.

Now it’s time to restore the deleted articles.

1. Look inside the page-source using Ctrl+U or hit right-click and select View page source at the cache version of the post.

2. Once you enter to the page source window, press ctrl+f to find postID (looks like postID=4950781825632545210) and note it down.

3. Login to blogger dashboard of the blog post you want to recover.

4. Open new blog post and click edit to launch post visual editor.

5. Find PostID in the browser address bar and replace it with the deleted postID you’ve noted in step 2.

6. Hit Enter key and the post editor will show you the deleted post content in it.

7. Finally, click the Publish button to recover the deleted blog post and make it re-appear live on the internet.

You will certainly recover the deleted blog posts if you follow the entire steps carefully.

If the above method doesn’t work for you, you can try another method below.

#2 Recover Deleted Blog Post – Unpublished & Draft Post

This method lets you recover deleted blog posts with the help of browsing history. But only if you have not cleared your internet browser history yet.

To recover the deleted draft post, the following steps will be helpful.

1. After deleting the post falsely, Press Ctrl+H or Shift+Ctrl+H to view your browser history.
2. You will find your recent browsing activities. Now find your drafted blog post or edited post.
3. Once you find the post, just open that post. It will bring all the post content and images back but you can’t publish or save it to draft. It will show you an error message if you perform this action.

To recover a deleted blog post, you can copy all content and images from HTML editor and use that to create & publish a new blog post.

#3 Restore Removed Blog Post with FeedBurner

If you’re using Google FeedBurner to reach the maximum audience, you can use it to retrieve the blog post.

Whenever a blogger post is published, the feed burner associated with it automatically creates another version of the blog post.

To recover a deleted blog post, just visit the feed address of your blog.

Here you will find all the listed blog feeds with all post contents.

Note: This method will not work if you set your blogger feed settings to Allow blog feed to Short and Until Jump Break. With these settings, it makes impossible to recover deleted blog post and page.

#4 How to Recover Deleted Blog Posts from Way Back Machine – Web Archive

None of the above methods worked for you recovering your blog post?

No Problem!

You may still try your luck and this is the last way.

Search the delete posts on the Way Back Machine – A Web Archive directory. It’s a digital library that stores all internet files permanently. Visit archive.org and enter the removed post URL into the search field and click browse history. This archived website also has a ton of legal movies, books, and music, check out the list of 20 free movie download sites, legally.

You can give it a try to retrieve the deleted web pages.

Alternatively, you can use CachedView to view cached files of any web page on the Internet through multiple cached sources like Google Web Cache, Coral Web Cache, Archive.org Cache & Live Version.

Hope this post will be proven helpful for you to recover deleted blog post and pages on BlogSpot. Share your stories on how you recovered your deleted blog posts. Do comments!

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Masud Rana