Monday, 15 June 2015
How to create a Blogger Blog | Course 2 | Blog terms explained
We had seen the basic procedure for creating a Blogger account and also learnt how to select the "Best Blog Title" and "Domain Address" in the previous post How to create a free blogger blog | Course 1.Before going through the initial basic settings that is needed to start a blog,we will understand some blog terms.
Log into your Blogger account and you will be landing by default to a page shown below.As you can see your blog name here which you have created in the previous section.Now click your blog name.
Clicking your blog name will take you to the "Overview" section of your blog.As you can see in the picture below,there are 10 functional parameters,some of which will be useful all through your blogging works.Since, they are useful during blogging,we will understand something about them as follows.
Overview :
Like the name indicates,it gives an overall status of your blog's traffic.You will get a quick status of page views,comments etc.The snapshot below shows how the overview looks.Note the terms and functions.
Posts :
This will display a collection of posts that you created (published as well as draft) along with page view status.This is where you create new posts as well as edit already published articles.
The below picture illustrates how Post section looks.As you can see that there is a list of posts with labels and page views.
Pages :
Pages differ from posts.Pages are more or less like the Tabs and is the place dedicated to include categories (links).Pages can be considered as 'Static' as they remain visible to the visitors.Posts are the place where articles are written and shared to the world.A page can hold group of similar posts,but a post is meant for specific article.Pages are not updated in RSS Feeder and is meant mostly for the use of some kind of static articles like 'About Me'.Blogger allows you to create only 20 pages while it allows you to create unlimited number of posts.
Just keep the following thumb rule while choosing between a page and a post.
• For writing articles that is share-able in social media,use posts.
• For including list of similar posts as a directory (category) or to just write a static page like 'About Me'; that is not share-able,go for pages.
To make you more clear; the page that you are reading now in this blog is a 'Post' and the page that will be seen by clicking any of the above tabs(Placed on the upper-right corner of this blog) is termed as 'Page'.Just go through them and understand how I categorized post links.
Comments :
This is a section where your posts comments (published as well as waiting for modification) would be displayed.Remember,the comments has been published can be deleted anytime later.The picture shows the same.You can note the tabs,'Remove Content','Delete' and 'Spam'.
Google+ :
Google+ link allows you to change settings to link your blogger account with Google+ account so that whenever you publish a post,then it may or may not get shared automatically based on your settings.By default,your blog will be linked,that will be fine.
Stats :
Stats is the juncture where you will be spending more time in blogger.This page will give you details similar to analytics like page-views,post wise traffic,sources of traffic (URLs and referring sites) and audience (location of view,browsers).Stats will be more useful to track your blog's status once you start blogging.Check my blog's stats and note what are all shown in that page.
Earnings Tab :
This will be not useful for now.It will be useful only when you start monetizing your blog.For now,take it lightly.
Layout :
OK,here is the useful section.Layout is all about your blog's inner arrangement.Layout will allow you to :
• Add new gadgets like pages (tabs),ads,social sharing buttons,subscribing links etc.
• Delete some unwanted gadgets.
• Customize or reorder the location and placements of gadgets.
Below picture shows a blog's layout.Note that we can rearrange them by dragging and placing anywhere (except some gadgets ; that we will learn soon).
Template :
Template helps you to edit HTML as well as customize the design of your blog.It will helps you to
• Choose new designs.
• Change the existing design like background,text,colors,blog widths and everything needed to make the blog customized.
Settings :
As the name indicates,setting allows you to change/update your preferences.This is where some of the 'Search Engine Optimization' techniques were employed.We will learn about that in detail in the next section.For now,just go through the picture below and see the various sub-headings under settings.The sub-groups being
1. Basic - settings for blog title,meta description,blog address.
2. Posts and Comments - settings to include or exclude word verification,member sign in for comments etc.
3. Mobile and Email - settings to mail posts after publishing.
4. Language or Formatting - translation,time and date settings.
5. Search Preferences - settings for meta-tags,re-directions,crawling and indexing etc.
6. Other - blog feed,footer and analytics settings.
Next part : Course 3 | Basic blogger settings required before publishing a post.
Please stay tuned with us and also drop a line of your experience in the comments below.For any questions and queries please contact us.
3. Mobile and Email - settings to mail posts after publishing.
4. Language or Formatting - translation,time and date settings.
5. Search Preferences - settings for meta-tags,re-directions,crawling and indexing etc.
6. Other - blog feed,footer and analytics settings.
Next part : Course 3 | Basic blogger settings required before publishing a post.
Please stay tuned with us and also drop a line of your experience in the comments below.For any questions and queries please contact us.
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