How to get word verification for posting turned off

When you post, do you have to go through the irritating step of word verification where you have to type in the text you see in a graphic into a text box to be able to published. If so, your blog has mistakenly been identified as a spam blog. This word verification will interfere with the blogging by email and a method of preparing a post to be published in the future.

There is one more good reason to get word verification for posting removed. If your blog has been marked as a spamblog, Blogger keep it out of the Next Blog list (the one on the navbar which when clicked takes you to a random blog). This means you can be losing potential traffic from people clicking NEXT BLOG.

You can get this irritating word verification turned off. To get it disabled, sign into dashboard, select the blog, in the POSTING tab, click CREATE. Look for the word verification. (see screenshot below). You will have to click on the ? button next to the word verification.
Clicking on the ? button will take you to a page where you can fill out a form to request a human to review you blog and remove the word verification.

Another way is to contact Blogger support via their contact form. You will get an automated email. Make sure you reply to the email. This blog had word verification turned on and I got it removed within 24 hours this way.

I have 2 blogs with word verification turned on, and I have tried both methods to get it turned off. My experience with the first was takes some time, while the second got the word verification turned off within 24 hours.

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