Proper understanding of blogger dashboard

Having successfully created your blog, which is tailored to the niche, I like to cease this opportunity to discuss little about the blogger dashboard which is the back-end of every blog. Enough of the chit-chat, let’s hit the ground running.

Making First Post

Making your very first post, figure above.

Labeled 1- Type in the post title.

Labeled 2- You should be familiar with Microsoft word. If you are, there is no big deal with understanding these icons and how to use them. If you are not, don’t worry. Just hover the mouse on each of the icons and follow them one after the other to learn.

Labeled 3- This is the text area for typing.

Labeled 4- Labels are like keywords. For example, If I am writing about create blog, my labels will be blog,blogs,create a blog. Note no spacing between the words. I hope you get the ideal.

Labeled 5- The post can be schedule to be published some time in future, if you don’t want to publish it immediately.

Labeled 6- This is usually auto-generated by blogger, though, it can be customize by you.

Labeled 7- Can be saved as draft, for future use.

Labeled 8- Published your post.

Layout

Let’s discuss a little about layout labeled 1.

Labeled 2- Favicon is the small B image that appears on every blogspot blog. You can change it by clicking on edit and upload your own favicon.

Labeled 3- Is the long horizontal bar on top of every blogspot blog. You can change it to a desired colour or even hide it completely.

Labeled 4- This allows you to change the header image.

Labeled 5- Here you will be able to add any gadget that you want like contact form, bout me, adsense etc.

Labeled 6- Preview your blog to see the changes made before saving it.

Labeled 7- Save arrangement.

Basic Settings

Turning attention to Basic settings labeled 1.

Labeled 2- The title of the blog can be edited.

Labeled 3- Description can be modified.

Labeled 4- You can allow your blog to be seen by search engine or hide it form search engine. I will always like my blog to be visible to all search engines.

Labeled 5- You can edit the blog address or add a custom domain (like a .com, .net, .org)

Labeled 6- If you want to co-author a blog with friends, you can add it here.

Labeled 7- You can select your readers or allow everyone to read.

Don’t forget to save changes below.

Creating Pages

Creating pages labeled 1

Labeled 2- You can decide to add a number of pages to your blog; pages such as privacy police, freebies, contact, coming event etc. this can be done by clicking on labeled 2.

Labeled 3- After creating the pages, they can be modified.

Labeled 4- You may decide to hide a particular page, from this point.

Labeled 5- Changes made can be cleared.

Labeled 6- Save arrangements or changes.

I hope this post help you in no small way. My next post will focus on legitimate ways of generating traffic to your blog.

I encourage you to drop comments below, if any, and I will get back to you ASAP.

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How to Create a Blog in Three Steps

First let me paint a picture of what, I expected my readers (my friends) to learn from this blog. We are setting out to make additional income to our various sources to livelihood, by building an army of blogs about any topic or niche of interest. For me, not having a blog about soccer will be unthinkable because it’s a part of me. So I urge every one of you to also blog about our passion.

Talking about niches which are winners any day, I mean niches which will make you money are health related stuffs, making money stuffs and relationship stuffs.

Turn attention to the blog part of the figure below. It is a good thing to know that there are various free blogging platforms namely: blogger.com, wordpress.com, tumblr.com etc. let’s focus on blogspot.com which mynetsense.blogspot.com is housed on. It is free to own and easy to maintain.

Money Blog

Step one- visit blogspot.com. If you have a Google account use the details to login. If you don’t, don’t worry; just create one by clicking on SING UP bottom on the top right hand corner.

Step two- Enter to the title of your blog and enter your blog address; their system will automatically check for availability of the name you entered. Example of blog address is mynetsense.blogspot.com. But since it is by me you have check for another address.

NOTE: Your blog title (name) and blog address should be related to the content of your blog.

Step three- Choose a template and click on CREATE BLOG on the bottom right corner.

NOTE: All the steps can be modified after on from the blog dashboard.

Now that you have created your first blog (new website), just play around it and appreciate it, by so doing you are developing knowledge about how BlogSpot works.

Before I conclude this post let me drop two of my favorite’s quote.

Our deepest is not that we are inadequate; our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. We ask ourselves? Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to be same. - Unknown Author.

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison.

This is EXTREMELY POWERFULL quote.

To him it was just one of many attempts that didn’t worked not failures

My next post will center on the traffic part of the figure above. Your comments are highly needed. Please do drop your comment below. Thanks.

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