Blogger Dashboard Settings

This article gives you a step-by-step guide through Blogger Dashboard Settings. We’ll be talking about the Settings of the new blogger interface and how you can benefit from them. It’s a big tutorial with lots of info!

Lets get started!
First go www.blogger.com and sign in your blog. Click the “Settings” link.
Below are some screenshot images that show what sections I’ll be going
over.

Settings: Basic

Your basic settings allow you to change the title, tagline and blog address at any time. You can also set the privacy setting that allow search engines to pick up your blog or you can block them from picking up your posts.

One great feature is the blog authors. You can give others access to your blog so they can create posts as well. They won’t be able to change previous posts or edit any of your blog settings unless you give them Admin privileges.
Allow anyone online to read your blog or only allow selected readers to view it.

 

Settings: Posts and comments

you can choose how many blog posts you would like to show up your blogs home page.
Another great feature is the Post Template. If you have a signature or certain text that you would always like to appear on each post, enter it here and it will automatically show up each time you open a new post. This can save lots of time.


When people click on the images in your blog posts, they generally open in a different window. You can now choose to have the images open with Lightbox.

Under the Comment section, you can choose how you would like your comments displayed. If you embed the comments (which I recommend) you can use Bloggers new feature which allows you to reply to specific comments on your posts. You can also choose to have your comments open in a new page when clicked on, open in a pop up window or hide all comments.
You can also choose who you will allow to leave comments on your blog and if you’d like to approve the comments before they show up publicly on your posts.

 

Settings: Mobile and email

Set up your mobile device (like a smart phone or iPad) so you can publish blog posts straight from them without a computer. Send your posts to your blog via text message or email.

Be sure to add your email address to the Comment Notification Email section. This way, you can receive an email every time someone posts a comment to your blog. You can also set up your posts so they are automatically emailed to certain people every time you publish.

 

Settings: language and formatting

Select the language you would like your blog to display in or give the option to have your viewers translate your blog into another language.
Under formatting, you can also select some options on your time zone, post date, post timestamp and comment timestamp.

 

Settings: Search Preferences

Description: This is the General Description for Home Page to Optimize Home page/Blog and this Description is Visible on Search Results of Home page.
Search Description Should be a Short Description about your Blog and Max 150 Characters in Length.

Custom Page Not Found: Blogger Providing the Custom Error/404 Not Found Page. This Error/404 message is Usually Visible in Blogger Status Message Bar.
You can add Custom Error/404 message with HTML tags or Even Images Also.

Redirection: This is also A Great New Option in Blogger.
To Redirect a One Page form Another Page, You can use this Option and Redirect easily.
The Redirection is 302 Temporary Redirection and Redirection is sent through HTTP Headers.

Customize robot.txt: Blogger has Provided the Option to Edit and Customize the robot.txt file. This is a Key file for Search Engine Robots.
Using this robot.txtYou can Allow or Block the Search Engine Robots to Crawl/Index the pages.
Usually every website has a robot.txt. You can access the robot.txt file using the url
http://yourblogname.blogspot.com

Custom robot header tags: This is Robot tags to Control the Search Engine Robots. This Tags are usually set in (X)HTML Pages OR sent through HTTP Headers to Allow or Block the Robots.
In the Case of Blogger these tags are sent through the HTTP header
You can set the Robots tags to Home Page, Archive/Label Pages, Post Pages on Crawlers and indexing Section in Search Preference tab.

 

Settings: Other

Import a blog from somewhere else or export your blog somewhere. This can come in handy if you’re switching to or from another blog provider like WordPress or even if you are moving your blog over to another Google account.

You can delete your blog entirely on this page.

Under the Site Feed section, manage how much of your posts you would like to show up in a reader. If you’ve burned your feed with FeedBurner, or used another service to process your feed, you can have Blogger redirect all feed traffic for your blog to the feed URL of your choice.

With OpenID, people can now comment on your blog without being required to have a Google account. They can use other site profiles to comment.