How to solve “Another blog is already hosted at this address”

Sometime when you try to publish a custom domain like chengsoongiap.com on Blogger, you may get the message “Another blog is already hosted at this address.”

Most of the time, this is due to your DNS setting. Anyway make sure that you stop the web service of Google Apps if you happen to use this service.

One way to overcome this problem which I did with my sites was to configure my DNS as:

mydomain.com.          3600 IN CNAME ghs.google.com.
www.mydomain.com. 3600 IN CNAME ghs.google.com.

With this configuration, you have a “CNAME” referral which points directly to a Google server. When the Blogger script verifies that the domain URLs both point to Google, it can proceed with confidence.
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One of my blog is detected as spam blog …

One of my site at Blogger was detected as spam blog …

Hello,

Your blog at: http://soongiap.blogspot.com/ has been identified as a potential spam blog.  To correct this, please request a review by filling out the form at …..   Your blog will be deleted within 20 days if it isn’t reviewed, and you’ll be unable to publish posts during this time. After we receive your request, we’ll review your blog and unlock it within two business days. If this blog doesn’t belong to you, you don’t have to do anything, and any other blogs you may have won’t be affected.

We find spam by using an automated classifier. Automatic spam detection is inherently fuzzy, and occasionally a blog like yours is flagged incorrectly. We sincerely apologize for this error. By using this kind of system, however, we can dedicate more storage, bandwidth, and engineering resources to bloggers like you instead of to spammers. For more information, please see Blogger Help: http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=42577

Thank you for your understanding and for your help with our spam-fighting efforts.

Sincerely,

The Blogger Team

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Blog using Email

If you are using Blogger for your blog, you may publish blog from your email program!

Select Setting of your blog from Dashboard, click Email. Choose a secret code to your Mail-to-Blogger Address. This will create a special email address for you to mail your blog entries.

Select “Publish email immediately” if you want your entries to be published as soon as they are received by Blogger.Finally click “Save Setting”. That’s it!
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