How to Create and Use a Blogger Blog

  Blogger Blog Review     When making a blog, it is important to receive feedback and understand that it can be useful when trying to improve. As an example, the post shown below is from a blog that makes tutorials on how to use Bloggers features. The link of this Blog will be provided here for your benefit. ( Add pages to your Blog!! )     What I think the Blog does well is adding media so the reader can better understand the tutorial.  Images and videos are a good thing when making tutorial based blogs. Another positive is adding arrows to those images showing where to click. This helps the reader to physically see where to click and where to navigate through.     Where I think work can be applied is the text. I think more description of the tutorial and steps is essential for not only understanding the material, but it makes it easy for the vision impaired, because they have more material to listen to, rather than listening to th...

  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...

  Changing the Design of Your Blog     Changing the design of blogs is one way to make yourself stand out and catch reader's eyes. Not only that, it's to better organize your blog.     To start, sign into blogger and select the blog you wish to change. On the left hand menu, click on layout and you'll be directed to the layout menu. In the area you want to modify, click "Add a Gadget,"          In the layout menu shown above, you can add a gadget when the window appears. After that, click save and you're done.    For more information or help with Blogger, please visit the official help page of Blogger.com by clicking this link:  Change the Design of Your Blog

  Signing into Multiple Accounts      Being able to switch accounts efficiently and smoothly is important if you use a public device or share a device with other people. Blogger has thankfully made it easy in order to do so.       Start off with signing in to your Blogger account. Once in, you'll see your profile icon on the top right. Click on add account if the account desired wasn't signed in before, or click sign out and sign in to your account. NOTE: if you don't want to sign in and out every time you switch accounts, then add the account and save the password. ONLY do this if the other people using the device can be trusted, however this is normally discouraged.     When you add an account, the profiles you added should show up when you click on the icon on the top right, above the "Add another account" option.      That's all there is to accounts, but don't forget that security should be top priority. So be mindful ...

  Add Images and Videos to Your Blog      Making Blogs filled with writing may be efficient, however in all honesty it is bland. In the new age of media people want more than just words and writing. Images or videos go a long way in order to keep things interesting and fresh to the viewer. This guide will show you how to insert images, videos, and the laws that are present when inserting them.     In order to insert images, you must understand the law and content policy that follows. Content that someone else created is not allowed unless consent is given. This goes for videos and images. Copyrighted media is also not allowed unless consent is given. Content that violates the Blogger content policy is again not allowed. If you want to learn more about Blogger's Content Policy , click on the link.     With that out of the way, images can be added to a blog by clicking on either "new post" or selecting an older post you may want to edit. On the...

  Manage Your Comments      While making posts and expressing your opinion and interests on Blogger is fun, you will inevitably come across comments from people who may or may not have read your content. These comments could be nice, criticizing, or even downright mean. It is your job as the content creator to decide what stays and what leaves- for better or worse. This guide will show you how to manage comments.      The great thing about  Blogger is that you are able to control who comments on your posts and what type of comments they leave. In order to set the settings, click on your blog and click "Settings" on the left hand menu that we've used before. About halfway down the settings menu there is an area named "Comments".      In this section there are a few things you're able to control. The first section, "Comment Location", lets you choose if you want responses to your post's comments. If you want to let people co...

Using Themes to Change How Your Blog Looks        Now that the blog is created and the posts have been posted, you feel like you've done everything there is to do on blogger, right? As it turns out, the surface has only been scratched. A major change that is simple to do is changing themes. The use of themes is to allow readers experience your blog in different ways and not just in a boring black and white paper.      In order to change your theme, click on your blog that is desired to be changed, and in the left menu click "Theme." After that, find one that sticks out to you and select it. Click apply and you're all set. NOTE: if you decide to use your creativity, you can choose the theme and change the colors. (this option shows up when you view the themes.)                Below is the difference a theme can make to a blog post. Before the Theme was Changed After the Theme was Changed For more informa...