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.

How to Create Blogger Pages

Apart from your blog post, you can manage pages which is usually used to host static pages. Yet, you are provided with ample number of pages to mess with. But remember, don't post usual blog post in blog pages. It is highly recommended to use new blog post. Pages are usually good for static contents such as About Me, Contact us, privacy policy, etc. Usually, these pages are often not edited. They remain static for the long time unless blog author wish to make a change.

Now, it is time to create blogger page if you are yet to create one.

Creating Blogger Pages:

Step #1: As usual, you need to be in your blogger.com dashboard to create your blog pages. Select the blog to which you wish to add pages. It will directly let to your blog dashboard.

Step #2: Now select 'pages' from the blog menu.

Blogger Pages

Step #3: Select 'New Page'. Like the 'create a blog post' interface, you will provided with an interface to create content of the static blogger web page.

Creating Blogger Page

The interface will provide with all the blogger pages that you have created previously. You can edit and update any changes you wish to make in your blogger blog.

Editing do not need any technical skills. Just like we do in the Word 2010, you could be able to edit content of the page like we do in the document.

Step #4: Once you complete your creating page content, you are good to publish them. Hitting 'Publish' will make it live on internet.

Blogger Page Property or settings:

Blogger Page options

Unlike blog post settings, you are limited when it comes to editing settings of your blogger blog pages. You will not find as many options as we do find in blog post creation interface. Only an 'options' setting will be available. It is as good as blog post 'options' where you specify options regarding HTML elements. If you wish to know more about the options, read how to create blog post.

Once you complete editing, hit the 'publish or update' button to save your changes and make it go live. Also with blogger pages you could be able to create static web pages to your blog form which you could create menu from those pages.

Creating Blog Post in Blogger

Well so far so good. You have your blogger blog ready. Now it awaits your first post. No blog is good without blog posts. So it is good to create first post as introduction post. Any blog must have intro blog post to make sure about the purpose of the blog. Well, when this blog is being prepared 'Blogger Guide Introduction' was published to public. To say, it is the first of the blog posts that got ready before anything. Now, lets jump to the creating your first blogger blog post.

Creating Your Blogger Blog post:

Step #1: Go to Blogger.com and login using your Google Account. It will let you to the blogger home page where you can view all your existing blogs.

Step #2: Now select the blog to which you wish to add blog post.  You can create new blog post in multiple ways

Blogger Home Page

 You can simple click on the create new post icon in your blogger home page dashboard to create new blogger blog post. It would directly lead you to create new post interface. Just enter your title and content body. OR

Blog Home page

The previous method is to create new post from Blogger dashboard. Now, if you are in your blog home page. You could either of the icon to start create a new post.

The subject content could be your interest. Make sure that each blog post are inter-related in subject matter. Just creating mixer of subjects will make your readers tired of searching relevant posts. 

Blog Post Settings:

Just posting a blog post ain't enough, each blog post has its own properties to manage with. 

Blog Post Settings

Labels: In other words, it may be called as categories. It is helpful in categorizing blog post in blogger blog. In this case I have created two label, 'Blogger Guide' & 'creating blog post'. You can have up to 500 labels in blogger.

Schedule: Handy property while you are away from your desk. You complete finishing a blog post but it could wait till the time you mention in the schedule to get published. Few bloggers have habit of publishing blog post on particular days in a week. If you have any posting schedule, then you can make blog post get published on that particular day.

Permalink: It is the ending part of the blog post URL. Usually, it is generated automatically based on the title of the blog post. But if you wish you could set 'custom Blog URL' to each blog post.

Location: Blogger can indicate the location from which blog is posted. Yet, it is not exact location. You can add New York, USA as location from a desk located in Singapore. But adding location adds value to the blog.

Options

Options: Bloggers could decide how HTML is interpreted in the document. Few bloggers who blog about coding are good with 'Show HTML literally' as nothing indicates to add code to be viewed by the blog readers.

If you enable 'Interpret typed HTML', you could just add any HTML code that you wish to be part of blog post. You can add HTML tags on the go.

Description: You may not find this option initially. Blog Post Description is nothing but meta-description of the blog. It is one of the option available to SEO your blog which is not topic of this blog post. Also it is good to know how to enable Blog Description.

Once you finish writing your blog post, hit 'Publish' button to make it go live in Internet. 

Blogger Guide Introduction

Blogger Guide is a web blog aimed at helping fellow blogger to create a valuable and highly relevant web blogs for target audience. Most blogger who start blogging are beginners who find it tedious editing layout and templates without any technical knowledge. When a new blogger start his web blog, he will be one man company managing all the affairs of the web blog. So as a web blogger, who is getting started with blogger, has to be a good manager at first. Merely writing good blog post, will not attract attention. The blog author must be one who is capable of steering the blog post towards targeted audience to make it live and running. Running a successful blog will take lot of hard work. No blog will get stardom overnight. So keep working consistently will pay the reward.

Patience is the key:

Patience is the key. Most of them get curious the day two when blog goes online. How many visitors did I get? That's what satisfy a blogger. But their exist too many metric each blogger must understand. Just visitors alone make it all. Even I do own other blogs, where most visitors are nothing but bots. How hard I try, bots never relents. They just create some 100 to 150 page views per day. Does it mean, I receive good web traffic? Definitely, not! Even if you get 5 real readers of your blog post, then you have achieved making some one read your blog post.

Few bloggers rush for web traffic, try black hat SEO to get huge web traffic from search engine results. This may be good in short run. But your blog must aim to cater the need of your readers in long run. Blogger blog must be like a teak wood class chair where you use it for generation rather than a plastic chair which break within years of usage. Black hat SEO would give you plastic chair comfort. So patience is the key. Even today, you may not get your audience. But one day your blog will reach them.

Creating a blog will take time. Not just one or two blog post will create interest in your blog. So need have some warehouse of post to make readers and other fellow blogger to gain interest. So make sure you create enough content to draw attention.

Personalize Reader Experience:

Blogger Guide will help you make your blogger blog personal to your readers and audience. 

Design is how it work not how it looks - Steve Jobs

Your blogger blog design must be satisfy the convenience of the users. Design is not just how enticing your blog looks but how it projects content to the audience. Personalized user experience will get lot of social shares. So increased presence in social media.

Blogger guide is one stop solution to make your blogging right! Having cluttered blog is not a design. Your blog design must make readers get access to content in the intended way.