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This is a question that comes up almost everyday on the Blogger Help Forum...or I guess I should say the results of the confusion regarding this question shows up all the time. I can't even count how many times I have had to explain to users that use of Gmail is not a requirement for Blogger or any other Google product (other than Gmail). Basically, if you are already a Google account holder (on a different email from Gmail), you can use that account with Blogger and not have to bother with Gmail. If you are signing up with Blogger for the first time, it will take you to a Google account creation page and on that page, it will force you to create a Gmail account but you can add your own email address (non-Gmail) to the account as an alternate, and then immediately cancel the Gmail account after you have everything set up the way you want. I just did this myself for a new blog I created. I was forced to create a Gmail account when clicking on the Blogger invite, and then was able to...

http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?hl=en-uk&answer=41448 Mishka Blogger Help Group Blog*Star Testing Blogger

http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/request.py?ctx=accounts_hc&contact_type=ara Mishka Testing Blogger

http://blogger.com/forgot.g Mishka Testing Blogger

This is the specific link to get to the contact form for getting help from Google accounts when a users email account is not valid anymore. http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/request.py?ctx=accounts_hc&contact_type=ownership Mishka Testing Blogger

http://www.blogger.com/legacy-claim.g Mishka Testing Blogger

http://www.google.com/support/accounts/ Mishka Testing Blogger

This is the link to the help page that Blogger has with several ideas for figuring out passwords and usernames. http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&topic=10269&answer=41971 Mishka Testing Blogger FAQs for GooglePlus