How to Create and Use a Blogger Blog

  Share Content on Other Sites     Making content on Blogger is a good way to share your opinions or knowledge on a certain topic. The only issue is that the content is unfortunately restricted to Blogger, which may be a little more difficult for casual viewers to find. Fortunately, Blogger has features to counter this restriction in content sharing.      To start, sign into Blogger and select the blog to be shared. From the left menu select "Layout". In the "Page Body" section click the edit button next to "Blog Posts". Then check the box next to "Show Share Buttons".     In order to control the content shared on your blog, go to thee settings menu and navigate to the "Site Feeds" section. Select "Allow Blog feed" and choose how much of your content you want to be shared. For more information or help with Blogger, please visit the official help page of Blogger.com by clicking this link:  Share Content on Other Sites

 Set up a Custom Domain     Setting up a custom domain is one way to personalize your blog and potentially get more people clicking on your content.     To start, sign in and select the blog you want to have a custom domain. Click on settings and navigate to the section titled "Publishing". Click "Custom Domain", then "Buy a Domain".          When prompted, search for a domain you want, click buy and follow the rest of the instructions.     In order to set the custom domain in Blogger, navigate back to "Settings", "Publishing", and "Custom Domain". Enter the preferred URL for your blog and click save. For any problems you might run into, below is a link that describes the process of setting a custom domain.                For more information or help with Blogger, please visit the official help page of Blogger.com by clicking this link:  Set up a Custom Domain

  Use Analytics with Blogger     If you are curious what viewers you attract, Blogger has you covered with their analytics page. Below will help to guide you to see how much traffic your website has and what kind of people are visiting.     First, you have to sign up for google analytics. The link provided is the "Get Started" page. ( https://marketingplatform.google.com )     The next step is to find your analytics "G-" ID. Sign into your Google Analytics account and click "Admin". After that, navigate to the "Property" column and select property. Then in the property column select "data streams". In the "Google Tag" section, click on the "Configure Tag Settings". You should now see your G- ID in the Google Tag section. Note, copy, or write down the ID that starts with a "G-" or "AW-".     With the "G-" ID in hand, go back to Blogger and choose what blog you want to track. From there cl...

Blogger CMS FAQ  1) Is the CMS free or paid (please link to cost/plans/options)  Blogger is free, however users must have a Gmail account to use. https://www.hostinger.com  2) Briefly describe the toolkit or features supported (images, videos, streaming, text )  Blogger lets the user insert images and videos from the pc or other sources. Text is supported by typing in the page it gives you. You can also embed links that show up as whatever text desired.  3) Describe what style(s) of site(s) can be created (static web pages, blogs, wikis, audience interaction, v-logs etc)  Blogger is obviously targeted towards blogs, however one can make it a tutorial based blog and it can be a wiki-sort of page. Since videos can be inserted a vlog is possible.  4) What accessibility support(i.e., alt tags, closed caption support, ability to edit/update aria tags) is available  Blogger lets you add captions to images, ALT text to videos and images, closed captions ...

 Privacy and Security     This tutorial is different from the others in the fact that it isn't about creating a blog- rather protecting it and your account.     Something that happens in Blogger is ads appearing even if you didn't pay for ads. This could be a sign of malware on your blogger account or computer. A good check is necessary in securing your account and device.      Recovery of an account(s) is another process that is beneficial to understand the steps of. This can be for a majority for reasons- forgotten password, change of email, or deletion of email. Thankfully, deleting an email isn't the end of the world. What IS the end of the world is deleting your Google account. Blogger cannot be saved if the account is deleted.           If a password is forgotten, you can click the "Forgot Password" option and it will ask for either a phone number or emergency email.     While not super impor...

  Help People Find Your Blog on Search Engines     With the pages published and the themes selected, it's about time for people to actually find your blogs, whether what you wrote about is helpful or just about your day. To start, sign into your Blogger account and choose what blog you want to be made visible.          Then simply scroll down to the "Privacy" section and click on the tab that says "Visible to Search Engines".      That's one way of making your blog easy to find, and unfortunately the easiest. There are more ways to do this, and it requires a little more effort. One way is to add keywords and headers in your posts. This will allow the Google algorithm to recommend your blog to people who search similar topics. Another way to improve traffic on blogs is adding alt text to images, videos, or whatever media is inserted. Adding a long alt text not only improves accessibility on your blogs, but makes the im...