Promote Blog and Twitter profile together

If you are reading this blog then I will assume you own or write in blog. If not start your blog today if have any specific idea that may found interesting for the Internet users! Do not hesitate to blog if you got some awesome methods and tricks regarding a niche! So what if you are not getting enough visitors? Though your content may speak for itself, it would like performing in empty opera! So are you running your Opera empty? Not even bystanders watch your performance? Banging your head hard for solving zero visitor issue with your blog? Then you can have Twitter to your rescue! I don't mean Twitter is the only way to get audience to your blog. But it is one of the efficient method to gain audience each day! It would be double win if you are able to leverage your Twitter profile along with your blog! The benefit of leveraging your Twitter profile is different, yet it is good to have your Twitter account linking to your blog! I am come for it later. Subscribe through email for updates.

Twitter For Blog

Basics: Alright, enough of stories! Now show time, if you do not have a Twitter account, it is time to sign up for one! Once you sign up you will find your self alone with no connections with anybody in this world who have an account in Twitter. Please do not worry at this moment, you have logged into the largest ever public social media network. Unlike Facebook, you won't need friends all time to share and like your tweets. All you need is someone who is in sync with your wavelength. If you find it hard getting followers on Twitter, never mind, you will get them eventually. If you are going to follow the steps mentioned below!

Step 1: Twitter has search function, if you want someone who shares interest or niche as same as yours, which will bring out people for the keywords you search. For instance, if you are interested in writing about automobiles, then search for the terms related to your automobiles. It will bring up latest and popular tweets. If you find anything interesting and work sharing, just retweet them without any hesitation. If you are good at retweeting someone's tweet, it would show that you are open for social interaction. For Twitter, interacting with stranger is the key. Even if you don't find someone who do not share your interest, you must interact if he responds to your tweets. The basis of Twitter is interaction. More you interact, more the followers!

Note: Please do not do broadcasting in Twitter. Most common mistake with twitter users is they just tweet and forget it! Following each tweet interaction is far more important! Rule of thumb!

Step 2: Do not market your blog! Well, feeling paradox! If you are reading this blog post then it is for marketing your blog in Twitter! But step 2, do not market your blog in Twitter contradicts the very purpose of this blog post! Right, it is half truth. I have seen most people who wish to gain visitors to to their blog, often make this mistake. They just broadcast the link and wait for the visitors. Well, if that to be your strategy, you failed in Twitter. That's harsh, huh? Remember, Twitter is an awesome platform for micro blogging and it will always be that. So just broadcasting and waiting for your 1st reader from Twitter is awful. To make it straight. Don't market your blog aggressively! But active engagement is possible! Try to create few awesome micro blogs i.e, tweets regarding your niche! Follow 80-20 rule!

80-20 Rule: What is this 80-20 rule? Lets see what it is! Consider you compose 100 tweets per day. Then 80 percent of you tweet must be real tweets without any links to blog i.e, tweets which are just worth reading from Twitter than from a link! I hope you understand the difference. 20% of your tweets can contain links from your blog! Still, don't schedule those tweets like 20 tweets all posted on same time of the day! Provide some decent time gap between each tweets and you are fine!

This 80-20 rule is flexible, if you feel that people love your blog then you are good to go with blog links. But do not involve in spamming! I have seen many people spamming same links for months together. Don't get yourself into the list of those people who spam Twitter!

Step 3: Then, in step 1, you have read about few words regarding interaction. Well, interaction is important factor! You can build relationship with your readers by getting involved in conversation! Healthy Twitter handle will have engaging users. Debates will never stop! Most of us find these problem common. Yes! Embarrassing followers! They would comment worst thing and denounce you. You might feel they are bring you down. But truth is they are betraying themselves! So do not care much about the negative tweets against you and your blog. So keep doing your own stuff. Do not stop until you achieve your result. For those who post negative comments, just welcome them. Welcome them for those comments. It would startle them and make them big fan if you continue the same trend. It happened really in my case. We fought and now, we follow each other! Arguments are best way to make friends! Do not heat up the argument too much. If your opponent has something good than you, accepting it will make him your friend! So Twitter is little bit psychological game. Have fight! Don't forget to have fun in the end. Each fight must earn you new friend! Love your enemies because they teach you a lot than your friends.

With setting right, you will not only find your blog get audience from Twitter but also leverage your Twitter profile to next level! With each tweet your value gets one step higher. So do your personal value.

Never forget to add Twitter follow button in your blog so if someone who gets to your blog will have opportunity to follow your Twitter account.

Google Account creation

Through out your Google experience, you have encountered so many places that need Google account. Previously, google account is nothing but your gmail id. If you have gmail then you can get access to ask Google services. But with loyalties around email providers, official email accounts has kept large number of users from Google account's benefits.
As Google has made Google account mandatory for almost all Services, it is now must to have id. No more gmail.com. You can create Google account with your existing email id.

All you have to do is select the check box before clicking sign up button on Google account creation page. You are good to go with Google. You can access gmail, Google+, blogger, drive, Google Search console, play store, maps and all with single id. That too with your existing mail id.

Though you won't receive gmail messages or any messages relating to Google to you existing email id except for Google account information and confirmation.

Google Account Creation

But still you have to use gmail id if you are wish to use gmail service. That's different story! You get all major Google service with your existing email ID if you wish to keep it so.

For user who mind privacy, your one stop privacy settings in one place. Visit myaccounts.google.com to manage your privacy settings.

One Stop place to Manage Google Account Settings

With myaccounts, you can manage every aspect of your Google Account. It would provide easy way to manage your privacy for each service through myaccounts!

Google Webmaster Tools + Blogger

Time to improve Search Engine presence of your Blogger blog. Now, we will do it for Google Search Engine! What's special with Google? Well, it is most popular search engine around the world makes it special! So your presence in Google index is far more important for the business. That too making top 10 of the search result will be priority sooner. But you need not worry about it yet. Google Webmaster Tools is a vital tool each webmaster must know to handle. It was renamed as Search console, yet, still Google Webmaster Tools terms bring up search console in the SERP. No matter what it is name! Functionality remains same. 

Now login to the Search console using any of the Google Account. It is recommended to use Google account used in the Blogger.com. Still, it is your preference use any Google Account as you wish. Once logged in, you will be presented with Search console Dashboard where you could manage websites you add to Google Webmaster Tools.

Adding Website to Google Search Console:

Add a property

1. Login to your Google Webmaster Account. Now from the dashboard, click on 'Add a property' button.
2. A dialogue will open stating to enter the web address of the blog which you wish to add in Webmaster tools.
   
3. After you enter the Blog web address, Webmaster tool dashboard gets updated and list your blog in the dashboard. Now, give some time to Google to find your blog. It would take at least a day or two. And you must be good when you search your sub domain! If not found in top 10 results, it must be found in top 30. (The idea of this post not about improving SERP ranking, those who are interested in SERP must read about SEO). 

   

   Webmaster Tools Dashboard
4. That's it you are good to go with your Google SERP presence. For Google Webmaster Guide, check how to use Google Webmaster Tools

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Submit Blog to Search Engine

Did you know? Most of your blog traffic would be from search engines. If you can get your blog within first 10 results, then your blog will receive decent amount of visitors. But getting to top 10 in Search Engine Result Page (SERP) is not an easy task. You will find yourselves racing with other bloggers who blog on same passion and niche. So here comes Search Engine Optimization (SEO). But I am not going explain very complicated methods employed by webmasters. Still, you need to do some basic things to make Search Engines crawl your websites. Remember, first you have to say someone that I am on internet, so that one who hears would visit you. So, first thing is to make Search Engine visit your website .i.e, to make them crawl your blog post.

Know your Navigation Route in Search Engines

Though, submitting your blog to Search Engine is not the end, it is just a beginning of a new work. Just submitting web blog address will not make a search engine crawl your blog. It depends upon the frequency of updates and new articles you post in your blog. 

Moreover, whatever the blog post may deal with must get indexed in the search engine. But different search engine employ dissimilar methods when it comes to indexing. Google has unique highlighter feature which helps to markup each page so that you could save coding time with Schema.org. For those who are not tech savvy would able to benefit from Data highlighter feature in Google Webmaster Tools. While, the Data highlighter feature would not be available in Bing webmaster tools. So their exist no similarity and each search engine has its own unique way of indexing and ranking web pages in the internet.

No matter how good your blog is, without letting search engines know about your blog, it will not rank well in SERP. If you run a single author blog, then it is good to submit your website to Google and Bing manually than to wait for auto-index for which chances are remote.

Most other search engines do not need such submissions as they depend on data either from Google, Bing, or directory services or combination of all, to produce SERP. Example, DuckDuckGo has no separate Webmaster tool, yet you will find your blog in SERP if you submit them to Bing or Yahoo directory. To be simple, you need entry point for your blog as internet is web of pages. If you fail to get a link, you blog will stand separated.

It is not mandatory to submit your web blog through Webmaster Tools. But still, you need links to your site so that search engines may know that their exist a web blog i.e, your blog! For those who could not find a breakthrough with links, it is good to submit web blog address in various webmaster accounts manually. Moreover, you will find various options and tools at your disposal once you sign up for webmaster accounts.

Blogger + Google Adsense Integration

Spent time writing post for long time without thinking about ads. Then it is time to realize that your blog going to pay you. Google was so nice with Blogger users that it integrated Google Adsense with its popular Blogging platform. Monetizing your blog is just a click away! You will check out about earning & campaigns post which provided with clear introduction for beginners. But most of us know more about Google Adsense. History of ad network will not begin or end without Google Adsense. It is most popular ad network among any other Pay Per Click advertising. In short, it is considered as king of ad network.

Sign Up for Adsense

For anyone who has dilemma when to monetize your Blogger blog, then just follow the instructions in the earning menu of the Blogger dashboard. The 'sign up for Adsense' will be enable when six months elapse after creating your blog. You may own any number of Blogger blog, yet each blog has its own incubation period and need approval to display ads.

Signing up for Google Adsense:

1. Once the button gets enabled in your Blogger account, then just follow the on screen instructions to sign up for Google Adsense.
2. To sign up, you will be provided with two options, to use existing Google Account or create new account. It would be wise to use your Google Account which you use for the signing in into Blogger as you will find it convenient at later stages.
3.  Once you sign up, it takes some time for Google Adsense Team to approve your blog. During the waiting period, empty ad box will be displayed.
4. Once you sign up you are free to select the Ads that are to be displayed in your blog. Google Adsense will provide recommended Ad unit that adapts to responsive design.
5. Once you select your ad unit, you will be provided with the code of that ad box which you could place in your Blogger layout. 
6. To place your ad, login to your Blogger account, select the blog which was recently approved by Google Adsense-> select 'layout'-> select 'Add a Gadget' -> select 'HTML/Javascript' gadget. Now paste the code provided by Google Adsense. Your ad will start displaying.

Note: No images have been provided in this blog considering privacy of Google Adsense account. If you find any difficulty setting up Adsense to your Blogger blog then leave comment about the problem. Possible solutions will be provided at the earliest!

Most of the Bloggers will find difficulty getting approval of Google Adsense Team. It is true, that Adsense Team is serious about Blogger blogs that display ads from Google Adsense network. If you find difficulty getting Adsense team approval for your blog, mention them in comments, most of the problem which prohibit your blog from getting qualified for Adsense program would be silly. So you will find easy way to get approval for Adsense team in no time once you fix them up.

Blogger Settings - Managing the Blog

Is anyone interested in a car without engine? Almost everyone of us wish to have best possible engine for the car. Similarly, every blog needs settings to manage the blog's overall functions and abilities. So do the Blogger dashboard provide settings for each blog hosted on Blogger service.

Blogger Settings

As usual, settings manage all the basic functions of the blog. Lets us see one by one to what Blogger has provided with us. 

Basic Settings

Basic: These are the very basic settings! Most of them are editable. Title is the Blog title which you have provided at the time of creating the blog. If you wish to add description, you could add few lines of text which will be appended after the blog title. 

Privacy, the very setting decide how you intent to use the blog. The default is 'listed on Blogger. Visible to search engine'. You blog will be indexed by Google and will be provided in the organic search results. 

Blog address! Yes, it is the address through which people identify your blog in internet. As a user of Blogger platform, you will be entitled to create unique sub-domain which would act as blog address. Further, you can setup custom domain name for blogger blog!

Permissions deal with adding, removing blog admins and authors. Click on the '+ Add authors' link and enter email address of the person whom you wish to add as an author in the blog.

Next, of course, your blog readership! Whom do you wish to read your blog post? Public is the best choice if you wish to include more readers. 

Post and comments: Do you mind if I say it has been already discussed in this blog! Managing Blogger comments has all the information about managing comments.

Managing Posts

You can made choice about how many blog post could be display in your home page? How images showcased in your blog! 

Post using Mobile and Email

Mobile and email: Interested in posting on the go! Then Mobile and email is the best method to post blog from various devices. For those who wish to post using SMS/MMS, you could add mobile devices from which you could post.

Next most useful option for any blogger is posting using email. Just fill up the 'secretwords' text box and you will start posting your blog post from your email. The format would be ksguruprasadh.<secretwords>@blogger.com. Send email to this address, you blog will be posted. The subject of your email will be placed as Blog Post title. To effective blog using email, check out How to post Blogger post from email?

Note: Be sure about 'secretwords' usage! Never share your secretwords with others. Anyone with 'secretwords' could post into your blog. It is your obligation to keep it secret! Blogger will not take any responsibility if someone post a blog with your secretwords. Better follow above link on how to post Blogger post from email.

Comment Notification Email: It is optional! If you wish to receive any comment notification email when someone leaves any comment in your blog post, then enter email to which you wish to receive such comment notification email.

Language and Formatting

Language and Formatting: Setup the language of your blog and transliteration. Transliteration could be of any language specific to any country. Of course, it is personal choice. Setting up a language will not make any change to search results.

Formatting will help to setup Time Zone, Date & Timestamp format along with comment timestamps. Though they are not functionally important, it helps providing customized personal experience.

Search Preferences

Search Preferences: If you are planning for SEO Blogger blog post, then each settings in search preferences play vital role. It helps setting up Meta tags, redirects, error messages. And you could set custom robot.txt file. 

Note: If you are not in SEO business, never touch these options. Any mistake in robot.txt file, your blog will be ignored by Google. So if you wish to add custom robot.txt to Blogger, follow the link.
These are the essential Blogger settings every new blogger must get acquainted with to start blogging! Make sure you have the right settings for your web blog before making it public.

Blogger Template Introduction

Editing a Blogger Layout is simply different from applying a Template. Template is non functional unlike Layout which carry functional Gadgets/widgets. To the Blogger beginners, template is an .xml file contains HTML, Javascript and xml code in one document. Blogger has some default stock templates which you can either apply them as such or customize them to your liking.

Blogger Template customization

Good news! With new updates to Google mobile friendly algorithm, Blogger supports responsive web design. So no added cost towards to web design. Each Blogger template has its own respective equivalent mobile friendly template which load for mobile users. With Smartphone penetration, mobile friendliness increases your presence in search engine. But customizing mobile layout is a different story. If you are interested in editing mobile layout, check on how to edit Blogger template for mobile view.

Blogger Template Customization

Let's responsive web design be aside, you are free to customize your blogger template. You can edit Background, width, layout in the customization menu. You will be provided with preview of customized template. Like with the layout, Template is your creativity. Play with it to explore new possibilities.

Editing Blogger Blog Layout

Now comes the interesting part in your Blogger blog, customizing blog layout. Layout is arranging Blogger widgets in your blog to make it easy read for visitors. The default layout will have minimum widgets like About me, blog archives, attribution.

New Blogger Layout Design Interface

The advantage of Blogger layout customization is that it takes no skill to create a widget. So managing your content need no programming skill except for using your mouse! Clicking 'Add a Gadget' link will open up Gadget dialog box where you can select a predefined gadgets. This tutorial is good to explain how to add gadgets in blogger. 

You will find no problem when it comes to adding predefined blogger gadgets in your blog. But that is not the end of customization. You could just create your own gadgets in blogger with pure HTML and Javascript. If you got some code from any repository to implement in your blog then it is good to add 'HTML/javascript' gadgets to add your own code.

While it comes to arranging the placement of gadgets, you will find it similar to using visual IDE. In other words, if you are good at mouse, you are good to go with customization of Blogger layout. Just drag and drop your gadgets to your required place. No more editing CSS and HTML. In this sample tutorial, it is explained how to create your own social media share gadget in blogger. It is not just easy to explain Blogger layout customization in single blog post. Without any paid or free blogger theme, you could just create your own theme for yourself.

Editing Blogger Layout is up to you. Your creativity will create the design of your blog. The design does not mean just arrangement. It is something which make your blog personal with your readers. If you are blogger, who is interested in creating theme for yourself out of stock blogger theme, then I is highly recommended to subscribe this blog for more updates.

Blogger.com inbuilt analytic features

So far how many blog post did you publish? If you have done publishing 3 blog post a day on average then in a week you would have some 21 to 25 blog post to your record. But the problem is getting visitors to your blog post. Creating content would not be a problem for new bloggers. If you spend some one hour per day, you could have good number of post to your name, sorry, to your Google+ profile, provided you shared all the post you wrote from day one. But how would measure your success as a blogger? 

That's the point! From being a blogger, just writing blog posts often doesn't qualify you to the podium. You know? Some millions of people own web blogs. But the said part only few reach the success and find place in SERP. Most people lose track of the progress and achievements. From my personal experience, I find most people abandon their blog. Mostly in blogger.com, I find often orphan blogs. Most blog writers just abandon once they find green pastures somewhere. The sub-domain owned by those bloggers are just doing nothing but parking in it for nothing. Simply, domain parking is done in Blogger platform. But that's different story we don't have to worry about now! 

I guess if you are reading this blog, then you are determined to make your blog complete. Success blogging is creating your own benchmark and targets. And of course, achieving them on time. Blogging had turned into a commitment. You have set target for yourself and achieve in on time.

Blogger Stats:

Stats Blogger Menu

So, you are setting up your targets, ain't you? If not, start setting monthly and weekly targets for your blog. Creating quality content is your goal. But with out any audience for your blog, it would like you are performing in an opera without visitors. So try targeting visitors who would like your blog. Unlike wordpress.com blog, your blog post will sit in new pressed category. Each blogger blog seems isolated except for the navigation bar, which usually brings up others blog.

Overview of Blogger Stats

Overview: Now, stats menu is easy to acquaint with. Overview shows up Post Entry and page views for your blog. Geographical location of the blog visitors. It is overall stats for your blog to make rough estimate out of the metrics collected by the blogger.

Posts: It will provide metrics on pageviews on blogger blog post and blogger page views. You could know about the top blog post which gets visit often from this option.

Traffic sources: This is important metric to measure your success in Blogger. You could learn about sites that are providing entry in to the blog post. 'Referring URL' keeps tab on the web site that provide backlink to your blog. More over 'search keywords' shows the search query for which your blog shows up in search result. This metric is as good as gold if you plan for SEO in your blog. Any search query for which your blog shows up then it is good to optimize your web page for such terms to rank higher. To know more about keywords research, you could find SEO your blogger blog post useful.

Audience: This tab will make you know more about Geographical location of your blog audience. It will provide insight into the Country on which you get page views from your blog and the browser from which blogger blog is accessed along with the Operating system or devices used by audience. It is good to know the OS which frequently appear in this stat. If you audience prefer mobile views, then it is good to optimize your blog for mobile. Interested in mobile optimization, visit to know more about responsive web design.

With Google rolling out mobile search algorithm, followed by anticipated Bing mobile search algorithm update, mobile optimization play vital role. Know the reason for optimizing web blog for mobile and tablets.

Drawback of Blogger inbuilt analytic:

Every tools comes with its own drawbacks! Blogger analytic provided with your blogger blog dashboard has its own drawbacks and pitfalls. 

Blogger stats are not real-time. In other words, you can see live updates over the stats as you do in other web analytic tools. The stats are updated with some delay. So it is good to use some professional analytic service if you prefer to have real time updates. For those, who are critical about the target audience, real time analytic service is way to go. Most of the web bloggers prefer Google Analytic service, yet even that service is not real time.

Further, Page views will count the bot visits. I run words of guru, a web blog running on blogger service. I receive an aggregate of 150 page visits from bots. Most of them are not quality links. Referring web sites would be some unrated website, not safe for audience of all ages. Most of these web sites, try to gain attention of beginners in Blogger who are new to blogging. Most beginners tend to click on those links i.e, referring URL to know about the website which provide link back to the blog and end up landing in page mostly compromising your security and privacy. So make sure, you or other author of your blog don't click on those links which you are uncertain about.

Sharing Blogger Post using Google+

Sharing Blog post using Google+

I will presume that you run a blogger blog and you are here to how Google+ sharing will help your blog? Any blog needs some active readers. In Blogger.com, Google+ integration will help you get readers to your blog in initial days. Many would feel wary about integrating social profile with blogs. Any one who visits your blog will get know about your social profile and thus might know more about personal information which you wish to protect or save it from unwanted attention. Well, we are in the age of internet, were most people are concerned about user privacy. I would highly recommend such bloggers to keep personal information private such as address, phone numbers, office address and so on. If you feel insecure about publicizing your personal information in social media platform then it is good check your privacy settings to hide few information from general public. Hiding every single information is not good for business such as hobbies, interest, websites, other blogs, promotions. 

In default, if you use Google+ using Google account, then blogger will automatically link your blogger profile with Google+ profile. With such integration, it made easy to share your blog post with Google+ audience. Not only audience, you can enable Google+ comments in your blogger blog, so your blog will display Google+ user comments on each post.

Google+ options for Bloggers:

Google+ options in Blogger.com

Option #1 Automatically Share after posting: This option is useful, if you wish to tell world about your blog post right after you posted it. Your Google+ profile is automatically updated with the new blog post. Your circles know that you have blogged in your blog. So it is good for those who wish instant update to their circle as soon as a blog post is published.

Option #2 Prompt to share after posting: while selecting this option will show a prompt box confirming your blog share through your Google+ profile. You will be provided with whom you wish to share your blog post. Three options are provided:

• Your circles
• Extended circles
• public

It is always recommended to share with public as it is most likely to get new audience into your blog. Consider if some one +1 your blog post shared through Google+ then his/her circle get know about your blog post. Thus increasing your blog reach than your expectation. 

Option #3 Use Google+ comments on this blog: It is your own choice when it comes to selecting this option. Commenting through Google+ had not been a problem at all. So if you find it useful to enable comments, then you are good to go.

Sharing using Google+ page:

Well, default setup enable you share using your personal Google+ profile, if you wish to create new Google+ page anticipating larger audience, then it is good to create Google+ page for your blog. It must be good enough to emphasize the interest of the blog.

If you use the same Google account for creating Google+ page then the page created will be listed when you select Google+ from the Blog dashboard.

Integrating Google+ page

If you have trouble setting up Google+ page then you can follow this tutorial on setting up Google+ page. Once you finished creating Google+ page, then it would automatically show up in your Blogger blog dashboard. To cross check about Google+ page integration, follow the guide to integrate Google+ page with Blogger blog.

Once start posting all updates using Google+ page then, it would be easy for you to manage the community which you create behind your blog. Thus, help you to separate your personal profile from blogging profile. Those which to follow the blog has liberty either to follow you or just follow the blog alone.

How to Manage comments of your blog?

Well, you must have started publishing blog post from your blogger blog! Most of you must have informed your friends and family about the blog which are writing. So you have few leads to your blog. So naturally, you may expect some comments. Not only from your family & friends but from general public. It is quite natural that your blog visitors may from any part of the world once you make it public. Google is good at taking your blog to any part of the world. So it is good to manage your comments. Moreover, managing comments does not mean just moderating, filter, removing spams. But also to have engaging readers of your blog. Once some one leave a comments, it is good to appreciate for commenting out and answer his/her query regarding your blog. That way you create reader engagement. Once you engage with your readers you will have a good chance of making your blog personal with that reader. So it is wise to manage blogger blog comments. 

Generally, Blogger.com allow any users to comment using Google Account. But still, it is good to enable anonymous commenting. Few readers, who don't wish to reveal identity will prefer anonymous commenting. So it is good to enable them in your comment section. Yet, it has its own reservation which will be dealt in detail now.

Managing Comments on Your blog:

Blog Settings

In your blog dashboard, select 'settings'-> Posts and comments. It will open the settings of blogger comments.

Blog Comment Settings

Comment Location: Comment Location option will provide with options on 'comment appearance'. In Default, it will be embedded at the end of each blog post. It is good to leave as such if you are confused on selecting the right option.

Who can comment? Well, it is recommended to include 'Anyone'. But purpose of your blog may restrict users who leave comments in your blog post. So choose it wisely. Default is 'Registered User'.

Comment Moderation: Does your blog need comment moderation? If yes, it is good to provide with an email to get notified of the comments left in your blog post. Moderation will need your email id to be entered for moderating comments for which you will notified. 

Moderating comments

Show word verification: It is highly recommended to select 'yes' for this option. This option prevent spams and bots leaving comments in your blog. So it is highly recommended to enable word verification for your blog. Each time one post comment, to the one who post will be shown with a word verification. This will prevent bots from posting random, irrelevant comments in your blog post.

Show Backlinks: What if someone discuss about your blog post somewhere else? Enabling backlink will provide a link back to the post where discussion is being done over your blog post. 

If you have enable moderation in your blogger blog post, then it is good to periodically check comments that awaits moderation. It is good to publish comments as soon as your readers leave one. Yet comment moderation will help you prevent spams, ads, irrelevant links being posted on your blog.

Getting Started with Blogger

A few percentage of population wish to be writer form childhood days. Those who are in schooling would had a dream about writing a book or manual about something of the passion that they love most. But those dreams to become a writer fly off your mind when you pass out high school. Due to economic pressure, we will find ourselves in a job that going to pay us salary to lead a comfortable life. Two generations back, writing is a novel thing. One who dedicate one's own life for writing would be able to take up writing books. But in this internet age, writing books alone is not suffice. Most of us read lot more information and stories from internet than books. 
With smartphone penetration, a tap and a flick will get any information that is available over internet. Even voluminous books are reduced to simplest of form writing by web blog authors. If you are one which to pursue a career in writing, then you are in the right place to start with. For those who wish to be web blog authors, might find themselves fight dilemma over the platform to start with. But this is nothing to worry about. It is common among most web blog starters confused over the platform in which they have to start writing for their audience. For those bloggers who need a platform to get start with blogging, blogger.com is the place.

Getting Started with Blogger:

Blogger.com

To get started with blogger, all you need is a device that is capable of utilizing an internet connection. Blogger could be accessed through desktop computer or mobile smartphones & tablets. So you will get varied choice when it comes to blogging from multiple devices. But make sure you blog from same account and same blog!

Most tussle faced by beginners while starting a blog is technical knowledge! How to setup a blog in internet. Though, wordpress is popular and power almost 80% of the popular internet web blogs, beginners find it difficult, if not difficult afraid, to setup a web blog from hosting services. But with Blogger, you will find no such problem. All you need is give your blog a name and you would be able to view it from xyz.blogspot.com (xyz is name of your blog and called as sub-domain).

Advantages of Blogger:

Being a beginner, blogger will provide you with head start unlike other blogging platform. Many others would argue advocating for various other blogging platforms which provide rich interface and flexibility. Yet, beginning your web blog with Blogger is hassle free. It is easy to setup and no hidden cost is involved unlike other blogging platform. Moreover, it is powered by Google. So you find your blog getting hit in search result in no time, if you provide unique and original content. 

Though at first, you may be provided with a sub-domain, you can later add a top-level domain name to your blogger web blog. It could done either through Google domain or some third party domain name retailers. Most blogging platform which provide rich editing interface and features will charge for custom domain.

And you can exercise the option of exporting or importing blog posts from your blogger account. This will come handy for any web blog author who wish to migrate to a hosted web blog of their choice. First and foremost thing is to establish your blog. From my personal experience, I found most blogs running from blogger with a custom domain name. But hosting a web blog in your own hosting account has its own advantages which is out of scope at this moment.

Setback of Blogger Blogs:

Well, every good thing comes with a price. So do the blogger. If you are using blogger, you will have to accept terms & conditions of the blogger. If you read terms & conditions, you might have a feel that you do not actually own your blogger blog. It is good until any conditions and terms are breached. 

This is should not stop you from using blogger. Most of the blogs pulled down by Google are for copyright violations (especially music and other multimedia) and for spam activity. So for those who are genuine and have real interest in starting web blog, Blogger is the place for you. You will be good as long as your blog is good!