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Extract Blogger Posts to Text: An Alternative to Google Takeout — WordsByEkta🌿

WordsByEkta🌿  ·  Behind the Blog The Google Takeout Failure: How I Rescued 95 Posts and Built a Searchable Library from Scratch Some things break before they get better. This is the story of a failed export, a clever workaround, and a library I now fully own. The Problem No One Warns You About This I have been writing on WordsByEkta for years. Essays on identity, motherhood, feminism, healing — things that took time, thought, and a kind of emotional labour that doesn't show up in word counts. Over time, the blog grew. Posts accumulated. And one day I looked at it and thought: this needs to be organised. Properly. Not just a list of links somewhere. A real library. Something a reader could walk into and find exactly what they were looking for — whether that was a piece on mom guilt, the Bhagavad Gita, or the peculiar exhaustion of a creative who has too many ideas and not enough hours. Simple enough plan. Unt...
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Is Blogger Worth It Nowadays? An Honest Review from a Writer — WordsByEkta🌿

Is Blogger Worth It Nowadays? An Honest Answer from Someone Who Almost Quit — Many Times I started this blog in July 2025. Not with a plan. Not with a niche strategy or a content calendar. I started because writing is my thing — the one space that has always felt like mine. And Blogger was free, simple, and already there. It has been almost a year. I have not earned a single rupee. And I am still here. So when someone asks me: "Is Blogger worth it in 2026?" — I am not going to give you the influencer answer. I am going to give you the honest one. What Nobody Told Me When I Started I thought building a blog meant writing. Just writing. I didn't know about meta descriptions, canonical tags, duplicate H1 tags, or why my posts weren't appearing in Google despite being published for months. I was writing full HTML pages inside Blogger — including my own <head> tags and meta descriptions — because that's how I had learne...
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Blogger SEO Mistakes: Meta Description, H1, Title Box Fix & Permalink — WordsByEkta🌿

The Invisible Settings: Why Your Blogger Posts Aren't Showing Up Right (And Everything You Need to Fix It) I thought I was doing everything right. I had learned HTML properly — or so I believed. Every article I published started with a full HTML page structure. I wrote the <!DOCTYPE html> , the <head> , the meta description tag, all of it. I had even added my own title tags inside the content. Weeks passed. My posts were live. But something felt off about how they appeared in search results. The descriptions were random and out of my control even when i had meticulousluy placed meta tag descritpon in all of my htmls. Bing was flagging multiple H1 tags and duplicate titles. I couldn't figure out why. Then I discovered something that changed everything: Blogger theme already creates half the page. The theme handles the <html> , the <head> , the title, the meta tags — all of it. When I pasted a full HTML page into the post editor, ...
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Blogger Links Opening in Same Tab: Why It's Losing You Readers and How to Fix It — WordsByEkta🌿

How I Accidentally Discovered My Blog Was Sending Readers Away Forever (And the One-Line Fix) I didn't know I had a problem. My articles were live. My links were working. Readers could click and go wherever I wanted them to go. Everything looked fine. Until I actually sat with my blog the way a reader would. I clicked a link inside one of my articles — a "Back to Index" link — and my article disappeared. Gone. Replaced by the index page. If I wanted to go back, I had to hit the browser's back button and hope the article reloaded where I left it. That's when I understood: every time a reader clicked any link on my blog, they left my article permanently. I wasn't losing readers because of bad content. I was losing them because of a missing line of code. The Problem Nobody Warns You About When you add a link in Blogger — or anywhere — the default behaviour is to open that link in the same tab . The page the reader was on...
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