How To Set Your Blogspot Settings

In this page, I will be discussing what to do in each of the settings areas you see below in the Settings.

Basic -  For now, the only change I would possibly recommend is to check YES to include the email a link to your friends icon, allowing visitors to more easily tell others about your blog. And if you have not optimized your title and description to include keywords that are well-searched and represent your site, you can do this here.

Publishing – You can change your blog address here. But keep in mind that if you do this, someone else can then use your old address. Also, you can move your blog to your own custom domain for $10 per year using this setting. If you are serious about trying to make money with your blog, I would recommend getting your own domain – some affiliate advertising programs even require it.

Formatting - About the only thing you may wish to change is your time zone.

Comments – How you set this varies. For some blogs, you can get spammed to death. For others, you get so few comments that you want few restrictions.  You might allow anyone to comment and if it is problematic, then go to Registered Users only.  You can require comment moderation, but often this will cause visitors to lose interest since their comment is not published for a hours, day, or weeks. Definitely show Word Verification to reduce spam. In short, tweak these settings until you get a situation that best works for you.

Archiving – Monthly is probably  best, the default setting.

Site Feed – Leave these as is, unless you burned your post feed with FeedBurner, or used another service to process your feed. If you don’t yet know what a feed is, don’t worry. Just leave the settings as is.

Email Notifications – Entering the emails of up to 10 friends (with their consent of course) would be a great way to get your blog off the ground. Email Posting Address is an address you set up that allows you to literally create posts by emailing them – it might be of value . . . or maybe not. Add your Mobile device as another way to post to your blog, if you like using such devices to post things.

OpenID - You can not change any settings here.

Permissions - You can add authors here by inputting their email address. Actually, inviting others, with your approval,  to write can be a good idea. Guests will not be able to do anything but write new posts. You will want to make your blog readable by “Anybody”.

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