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I recently switched to a custom URL instead of a *.blogspot.com URL, but now all the comments from my posts are gone. How can I get them back?

Update: I've been waiting several days weeks and they haven't shown up yet.

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Just wait. I have heard of this happening before. It just takes some time for everything to update. So just wait a few hours and they should be back.

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I saw people saying that too... sorry, I should have specified that I've already waited several days. – Senseful Jul 3 '10 at 6:16
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It seems a known problem, there are dozens and more requests of help in Blogger support forum.

There is an official discussion to check for updates and submit info for help.

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That link you posted is for people that see a discrepancy between the comment count it shows and the amount of comments they actually have. – Senseful Jul 20 '10 at 8:02
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Maybe you could try this (I'm just making this up, so don't trust it too much):

  • Switch back to your blogger domain name (http://username.blogspot.com)
  • Go to the "Basic" settings page and export your blog
  • Now switch to your new domain name (http://www.yourdomainname.com)
  • Go back to the "Basic" settings page and import your blog

It's worth a shot, I suppose! Good luck!

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That sounds dangerous! It's supposed to work without doing something like this. I'm not sure how, but it now works (without having to do the steps you posted). Good out-of-the-box thinking though. – Senseful Jul 20 '10 at 8:11
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I'm not sure exactly which of these caused it to work, but recently I made several changes:

  • I transferred the blog ownership from a Gmail account to a Google Apps Account on the same domain.
  • Instead of forwarding the naked subdomain with a CNAME record to ghs.google.com, I switched it to use a 301 redirect from the naked subdomain to www.
  • I added MX records to the naked subdomain and started using Google Apps Mail.

... and then suddenly all my comments appeared again. It has been about 3 weeks since they first disappeared.

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