How to customize the Blogger settings (Full Guide).

How to customize the blogger setting…

Bloggers setting is very important for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and for blogger posts also. In this post I’ll be sharing with you- how to make (edit) all these settings.

Blogger settings are divided and shown in seven different labels which are- Basic, Post Comments and Sharing, Email, Language and Formatting, Search Preferences, Other, User Settings.

1 Basic.

In basic setting user can edit the Blogger Name, Description and Privacy settings. Privacy settings plays an important role in showing the content or blog post in search engines, in other words this setting make the content visible to search engines.

Just make these edits in your Blogger.

Click on YES in both option.

Add your blog to our listings?  Yes  No Let search engines find your blog?  Yes  No

Today, on Internet different SEO processors are available, some are free versions and some are paid versions. As a Google Blogger I would suggest you use Google Webmaster and Google Analytics.

Google Webmaster is not so advance SEO processor but you can use this in the beginning of your Blogging experience. Later on, you can go for advance level SEO processors. 

Google Analytics helps in looking and judging the audience. Using Google Analytics will help you to know- from where your viewers are coming, what kinds of devices and OS they are using, how many readers are online and so on.

You can also use two three SEO processor at one time.

Publishing.

Under Publishing head only one setting that we can make and i.e. Blog address. If you don’t like your current blog address (domain) then, you can change it here. Also, if you have a custom domain then you can add here in Blog address. Adding custom domain will help your blog to grow fast.

HTTPS.

HTTPS is an extension of HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) which provides a secure communication over the computer network and it is widely used network on Internet. On HTTP network there are lots of chances of hacking data whereas, HTTPS protects your data from Man-In The-Middle (MITM) attacks.

To make this edit in blog, just make your HTTPS availability and HTTPS redirects is set to ‘YES’ from ‘NO’.

Permissions.

If you have anyone who writes post for your blog then, here, you can add your authors (Content Writer). Blogger gives some permissions to the author mainly to publish the written post. He can’t edit the HTML settings, Layout, and Blogger Settings also. You can add/invite author by putting his/her Gmail or form your contact list.

2- Post Comment and Sharing.

Post.

Show at most- This allow you to set number of posts that you want to show on the Home page your Website. Before editing this setting make sure that your template is supporting such features or not. Some Blogger templates directly show entire post that you have recently published. (Template show Full Article on it's home page).

Post template- It pre-format the post editor with text or code that will appear each time when you create a new post.

Show images with lightbox- Your images will open in an overlay on top of your blog. If your post has multiple images, then they will appear as thumbnails along the bottom.

Comments.

Here, you can set- how you want to show the comments on your post. Four option that are provided by blogger are Embedded, Full Page, Pop-Up Window, Hide.

As a blogger I would like to suggest you to set comments as Full Page because all the comments that your page is getting, will be added in your content words count (when your words will be counted). Having more words in blog post will increase the ranking of blog post in search engines.

Google comments.

When you share your posts on Google+, the comments that you are getting on Google+ will be added in blogger with post comments.

Share to Google+.

Beside sharing on social media like twitter, Facebook you can also share your post on your Google+ profile. If you share your posts on Google+, you will get instant views.

Auto-share new published posts to your Google+ profile-

This will share the published post on Google+ profile automatically. You don’t need to put extra effort to share the post on Google+, just make the auto sharing option as ‘Yes’.

You can set the option as NO, only if you don’t want the post to be shared on Google+ profile.

Prompt to share after posting- The default option that is set in blogger is ‘NO’, you have make this option as ‘YES’. Otherwise to share the post on Google+, you need to click on post share button.

If set the Option as YES then a pop-up tab will appear, which will ask you to share the post on Google+.

3- Email.

Posting using email- It is also known as Mail2Blogger. Using this address the posts and images can be directly shared to your blog (up to 10MB in Size).

Comment notification email- This will send the notification when someone comment on the Blog post. You can add up to 10 email address. The email that you add here, will be notified separately when someone comment on blog.

Email post to-  Here, you can add only 10 emails. This will send an email to these 10 people (email addresses) when you publish a new article on Blogger.

4- Language and Formatting.

Language- Keep this setting as it is, unless you get your country’s language in given list or you are comfortable with that particular language.

Enable transliteration- This allows you to write the post in your own country’s language. When you enable this, one button will be added in your blog editing tools (Button will have the selected language letter). By clicking that button, you can write the articles in your selected language.

Formatting.

Time zone- Keep this setting as it is unless you get your country’s time zone.

Date header format- Here, you can change and set the style of Date and Day, that appears on your blog post.

Timestamp format- Timestamp shows different styles of time that you can set for blog from the given list.

Comment timestamp format- This will appear on the comments when readers do.

5- Search Preferences.

Meta tags.

Description- Every blogger should enable this setting. Unless you set this setting, your blog posts will not appear properly in the Search Engines. When you enable this, your added description will be shown under your blog post URL - when your blog post appears in the Search Engines. When this setting is enabled, a new tab (Search Description) appears at the right side of the post writing page.

Error and Redirection.

Custom page not found- Whenever your page URL stop working, an error message will appear on the viewer screen (which you enter in the box).

To add a fancy message, you have to add HTML coding.

What is 404 Error and How to add 404 Page to blogger? Click here...

Custom Redirects- Add a custom redirect for external URL pointing to your blog that do not point to existing pages or posts.

Crawlers and indexing.

Google Search Console- If you click on edit, you will be directed to Google webmaster. There you can make setting like indexing pages and so on.

Custom robots.txt- This text will be served instead of the default robots.txt content to search engines. Use with care.

User-agent: *

Disallow: /search

Allow: /search

Sitemap: http://www.all-trending-topics.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

Replace the all-trending-topics with your site/domain name. If you are using subdomain (like .blogspot) then add blogspot also.

Custom robots header tags- These flags are used to set the robot header tags served to search engines. Use with care.

Homepage: all noindex nofollow none noarchive nosnippet noodp notranslate noimageindex unavailable_after:  Archive and Search pages: all noindex nofollow none noarchive nosnippet noodp notranslate noimageindex unavailable_after:  Default for Posts and Pages: all noindex nofollow none noarchive nosnippet noodp notranslate noimageindex unavailable_after:

Tick on this following names in custom robots header tags.
Homepage:
All
noodp

Archive and Search pages:
noindex
noodp

Default for Posts and Pages:
all
noodp

Monetisation.

Custom ads.txt- This is simply a text file that you have to insert in your blogger custom ads.txt settings. This carries information about the advertising networks used by blog owner.

6 Other.

Import and backup- This allows the user to backup all the pages, posts, comments in HTML format. This also allows to import files form the computer.

Delete blog- This delete the blog that you have created . When you delete your blog data, Blogger keep that data so you can restore it, if you want to restart the site.

Site Feed.

Allow blog feed-

i) Select Full from the option to syndicate the full content of your article.

ii) Select Until Jump Break to show all your posts before your jump break.

iii) Select Short to syndicate the first 400 characters.

iv) If you select None, your blog will not be syndicated and its content will not be indexed by                    Google Blog Search.

Post Feed Redirect URL- If you have Burned your post feed with FeedBurner, enter the full feed URL here. Blogger will redirect all the post feed traffic to this address.

Post feed footer- This will appear after each post in your post feed. If you are using third party ads, that ads code you can enter here.

Enable title links and enclosure links- This adds the title link and enclosure link option in the post editor. Title links allows you to set a custom URL for your post title. Enclosure links are used to make mp3, podcasts etc.

Adult Content- If you select YES option then, your visitors will get a pop-up message that the site is age restricted. If your viewer agrees to enter in it, then only he can read the content of your site.

Google Analytics.

Analytics web property ID- Add your Google analytics ID here so that, your Google Analytics can show the site performance.

You will get your Google Analytics ID in Google Analytics settings under tracking ID.

7 User Setting.

User profile- your you have two options to select your profile which are Blogger and Google+. Blogger allows you create a temporary ID where as, Google+ will use the Google ID. The ID that you choose will appear on post as Author.