How to manage Blogger setting : Digital Marketing course Part-5

Learn, How to Manage Blogger setting

Introduction

Friends, Today we shall learn how to manage blogger setting. In the previous section we learned how to create a blog on blogger.com. After creating a blog and before posting a blog, we have to do some settings in Blogger, so, through this article we will learn to manage our Blog's settings  on Blogger Dashboard. Let's start-

First, sign in to Blogger using your Google Account and follow the steps written below.

A. After signing in, the interface shown below will open. Here, a list of posts made by you will be shown as-

B. Right now, you can see three small lines have been made upwards in the left corner side of this  dashboard. By clicking on these three small lines, we see the side menu bar of the dashboard which you can see below.

Blogger Dashboard-

Now we will know about each menu that appears in the side menu bar of Blogger Dashboard.

1. Your Blog Name

The name of your blog appears in this menu, and from here you can create many more blogs by clicking on the new blog dropdown symbol from other names and from the same account.

2. New Post

By clicking New Post, you can write a new post for your blog.  After clicking on the New Post button, it will open a writing interface of Blogger just like Microsoft Word.  As we have shown with the help of the picture below.

3.Post

The list of written posts appears as soon as you click on the post menu.

 

In this interface, you will see another menu named "All", in which the number of published posts till now appears.  By clicking on it, three more submenu inside it as Published, Draft and Scheduled are opened.  The picture below describes all these three menus and their function.

 

 

4. Stats

After clicking this menu, the page which will open, we have been visited on our blog or post from page views, blog views, post wise traffic, source wise traffic such as URLs and referring sites, audience & their locations and from which browser  Etc. shows.

5. Comments

Clicking the comments tab will open the interface shown below from where you can see the comments of the audience on your post.

 

6. Earning

Friends, this Earning tab of the menu bar is very important because by this tab you can earn money by linking your blog with Google Adsense.  After clicking this tab, you can set the layout of how to show the ads on your post and send a request to Google Adsense to link your blog to Google Adsense.  The interface of this tab is shown below.

 

 

7.Pages

Through this tab, you can create different pages on your blog and also post them, making pages is as easy as posting new ones.

 8.Layout

Through the Layout tab, you can view the layout of the chosen theme for your blog and edit or customize it accordingly.  Although the layout of each theme is different, for example, here you are shown the layout of a theme.

 

 

9. Theme

You can choose the theme of your choice for your blog through the Theme tab of Blogger's menu bar, or you can also bring the theme of your choice from outside and upload it to your blog.  The Theme tab gives you many options to customize and edit the appearance of your blog.  With the Theme tab, you can also backup the existing theme of your blog and restore it as well and also you can edit the HTML of your blog from here. Its interface will look something like this to you.

 

Clicking the drop-down icon next to the Customize button will open a drop-down like the screenshot shown below where you can backup and restore your theme as well as edit the HTML.

10. Setting

The Settings tab is the most important part of Blogger's menu bar.  You can do all the settings of your blog simultaneously through the Settings tab.  By the way, under the Settings tab, you have to make many different settings, but all of you are found on the same page.  Here we will read about the different parts of the setting.

A. Basic setting

You have to do basic settings of Blogger as per the screenshot given below.  Here's how to set up every single part of Blogger's basic settings.

 

B. Privacy setting

If you want to allow Google search engine to show your blog, then you can turn on the interface button below.

 

C. Publishing setting

In the publishing setting you get four options which are as follows -

 1. Blog address

 2. Custom Domain

 3. Fallback subdomain

 4. Redirect domain

 You have to do the setting of these four options like the screenshot shown below.

 

D. HTTPS Setting

HTTPS setting provides security to your blog.  Therefore you must redirect the URL of your blog from HTTP to HTTPS.  So you have to turn on the button in front of HTTPS redirect in this section, this will automatically redirect the address of your blog from HTTP to HTTPS.  See the screenshot below.

 

E. Permission setting

Through this setting of Blogger you can manage the settings related to readers and author for your blog.  Information is provided to you through the screenshot below and about each part of this setting.

 

F. Post setting

To set the post in Blogger, carefully read the headings on the screenshot shown below and the information written in front of it.

 

 

G. Comments setting

You can manage the setting of the comment section of your blog post through the comment setting.  Comments about each part of the setting are given in the screenshot below.

 

H.Email setting

Here, I am giving you information about each section through the screenshot below, with many lessons in email setting, please read it carefully and follow these information.

 

I.Formatting Setting

With this setting, you can choose the time zone and time and date format for your blog.

J. Meta Tags setting

Enable the blog's search description which helps users to select your blog in search results by writing a short description about your blog.  For an example see the picture.

 

K. Error and redirects

In this section you can set your blog's not found page message and also you can set for redirection the deleted URL to a new URL.

 Follow the image-

 

L. Crawlers and Indexing setting

Through this setting you can enable your blog to crawl and index in Google search engine.  Follow the instruction given in picture.

 

 

M. Monetisation settings

If your blog is ready for monetization then you can enable this setting.

 

N.Manage blog setting

This setting allows you to manage your blog

such as you can import content in XML file, you can take backup of your blog content, you can manage videos of your blog and also if you want to delete your blog then you can delete your blog from here. Your deleted blog can be restored within 90 days.

 O. Site Feed

This portion of your blog setting consist Allow Blog feed, Post feed redirect URL, Post feed footer and title and enclosure links.

O.1. Allow blog feed Full: 

Distributes the whole contents of your post.

O.2.  Until Jump Break: 

Displays all post content before your jump break.

O.3.  Short: 

It distributes approximately the primary 400 characters.

O.4.  None:

If you decide on "None," your blog's XML feed are going to be disabled.

O.5.  Custom: 

You can set advanced options for blog posts, comment feed, or per-post comment feed.

O.6.  Blog post feed:

You can select what proportion of your post's content you would like to share.

O.7.  Blog comment feed:

You can select from here what proportion of your comments' content you would like to share.

O.8.  Per-post comment feeds:

You can set here what proportion of your per-post comments content you would like to share.

O.9.  Post feed redirect URL:

If you burned your post feed with FeedBurner, or used another service to process your feed, enter the complete feed URL here.  Blogger will redirect all post feed traffic to the present address.  Leave this blank for no redirection.

O.10.  Post feed footer:

It will appear after each post in your post feed.  If you employ ads or other third-party feed additions, you'll enter that code here.  you want to also set “Allow blog feed” to Full.

O.11.  Title and enclosure links:

It adds the title link and enclosure link options within the post editor.

Title links allow you to line a custom URL for your post title.

Enclosure links can be used to make podcasts, MP3s, and other content in your posts playable in feeds like RSS and Atom.

P. General setting

This setting has mainly two parts as following

P.1.  Use Blogger draft

You have to enable this to test new features before expected rolled out for all Blogger users.

 P.2.  User Profile

 In this section of setting you can manage and make your profile that will appear to the users.  Click on User Profile and Follow the instructions given in this section to manage your user profile.

Conclusion

Friends in this Part of Free digital marketing course series, we have learnt about each section present on your Blogger Dashboard and also we have learnt how to manage blogger setting and how to create user profile on it.  I hope you will have been fully trained how to manage your blogger dashboard and setting.