Settings. Search Preferences and Other. Step Seven.

Settings for Preferences and others.

The next setting is "Search Preferences" click this tab under settings.

• First is "Description" click edit (this is a shortened description that search engines use to searching and display your blog on there results page. So its very a important description. You must get the searchers attention to click on your link.)( Under 150 words, very difficult one this)
• Next "Errors and Redirection" leave as is.
• Next "Crawlers and indexing"Leave this as is. 
• Save changes now. 

The last setting is "Other" Click this tab under settings.

• First is "Blog Tools" Don't change anything here.
• Next is "Allow Blog Feed" choose FULL.
• Next is "Post Feed Redirect URL" we will come back now to this one. Continue on to "Post Feed Footer" Leave this blank.
• Next is "Enable Enclosed Links" Click yes ( so your links that you post can be displayed and forwarded to others)
• "Your Open ID URL" should show your URL and leave blank the trusted sites.
• Click Save setting now. ( Top Right in orange tab)

Next we going back to "Post Feed Redirect URL"

This will be explained in the next post. This will be the second last step, before we get to widgets and you posting your first Blog Post on Your Brand New Blog.

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Click here to see my test blog at this point. 

Blog settings. Basic and Post. Step Six.

Blog Settings: Basic and Post.

Click Design tab on your menu bar.( How to: Top right, next to post new)

• On the left side under the orange tab (new post) go right down till where you see the settings tab and click it.
• More tabs open under neath SETTINGS. "Click Basic"
• Three Headings Groups opens up. (Basic, Publishing, Permissions)
• I will now explain what you must write and enter in each of the sections.
• First under the Basic Group is "TITLE" Don't change anything here ever!!!!
• Next "Description" click edit,Here you enter your description of what your blog is about and this will be the second thing Visitors will see when viewing your blog, so make it good and descriptive.( under 500 words only) and save changes on the pop up window.
• Next "Privacy" click edit and set this both the questions to "YES" and save changes.
• Second Group "Publishing" Don't change anything here ever!!!!
• If you have to change anything here, create a new blog. (Why, as  explained in Step two.)
• Thirdly is "Permissions" Here your name should appear under authors and don't add any more. 
• Next click edit next to "Blog Readers" and Highlight the ANYBODY option.
• Click save at bottom.
• You must have your blog set to public, so people can find and read it. (If you don't want it public, you may stop now.( Your Blog will only be seen by you ever and not indexed further by any browser.)
• Next click the "Post and Comment"tab under Settings.
• Two main Groups opens under headings Posts, Comments.
• First under "Post": 
• Show at most: Click in the box 10 and posts. ( Not Dates) Later, if you see that your posts has empty spaces to the left and right colums, reduce to 5,4,3,2 or even 1. Your adds and widgets should be as long on the sides of your posts on your blog page.( You can also make more posts visible, later.) 
• This makes your Blog look better.
• "Post Template"leave this empty.
• "Showcase images with Light-box" choose NO.
• "Share to Google" choose YES.
• Next under "Comments"
• "Comment location" choose EMBEDDED.
• "Who can comment" ANYONE.
• "Comment Moderation" Choose any one. This means you screen what the public comments to your blog or not. I choose Always.
• "Show word Verification" choose YES. That means if somebody wants to comment or reply on one of your posts, they have to show they human and not a spamming Robot, by typing the word displayed Google.
• "Show back links" choose YES. This will grow your viewers and page rank.
• "Comment Form message" leave blank
• The next two subjects under Settings is "Mobile and email" leave this as is. Next "Language and Formatting"Leave as is, for now.

Next post will be on the last 2 subjects. See Next Post. Step Seven.

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Template Customize, Layout. Step Five

Customize Template: Layout.

Now we going to change the layout look of your blog.

• Click layout. You will now see that there is two layouts, Body Layout ( with eight pictures under it) and Footer Layout (with Three pictures under it)
• We will start with the body layout. In each picture there is lighter areas and darker areas. The lighter areas is where you Blog tile and posts will be displayed. The Darker areas will be for widgets( will get to how and what is widgets later) Adverts, blog info ect. I started with the first one on the second line. This one gives you a lot of freedom (Remember we can change this later to). For now choose the one I suggest. Click that picture now, wait to load and "apply to blog" orange tab top right.
• Next we choose the Footer template. This is how the bottom of your blog will look like. Best one here is the middle picture. Easy for advertising. ( and again, remember you can change this later, with no negative impact on your indexing etc.) Click middle picture, wait for the loading to complete and now apply to blog.( Orange tab, top right)
• Next click advanced.
• Here you can set your over all look of your text in postings and sizes of headings and text in your posts.
• I will not change anything here, at this time. (We will come back to this Later.)Click "view Blog"tab top right side. (Don't panic it will start looking like a blog in the next few remaining steps)

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Blog Layout. Template and Customize. Step Four.

Blog Layout. Template and Background Customize.

Next, things gets a bit more exciting. 

• Now click on view blog tab. This is your first look at your new blog with your blog title. (Don't Panic, its going to look much nicer, when we done). 
• (The magic begins) Firstly, you will see on your blog,                            " Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)" DON'T CLICK THIS EVER!!!!!! (We going to use the better rss feeds, by Google Feed Burner.
• On the top of your blog you will see the following menu bar,from left to right "Search block, Follow, Share, Report Abuse, Next Blog...open.....your email(only you can see this), New Post, Design, Sign out"
• This bar is what you will use the most. Click the Design tab now.
• Look for the orange tab with the word "customize". ( How to: under the picture of your blog. ( not the Edit HTML) Click this now.
• In the grey area on top, the third picture should be highlighted and the word simple should be under this picture. If not, click the simple template.
• Now choose your colour scheme, from the little blocks highlighted under the simple template. ( Blue, Yellow, Black, Red etc.)
• Your basic scheme will appear at the bottom of your page.
• Look to the top right hand side for the orange tab with the words "APPLY TO BLOG" and click. Everything you change something, hit that orange apply to blog tab. (Every time!!)
• Now in the grey area to your left the words, (underneath each other) says "Templates, Back Ground, Adjust Widths, Lay outs, Advanced"
• We finished with Templates in that grid for now and going on to the next one, which is Back Ground. Click now.
• The picture with the heading " Background image", on the right side of the image box, there is a small little arrow, pointing down. click and choose any background image you like under the different headings relevant to your subject or not, (its up to you and you can change later by coming back to my blog explanations) and click orange tab at bottom that says "Done" then click the "Apply to Blog" tab.( Orange tab, top right)
• You can also change your main colour theme on this page. 
• Next skip Adjust widths, we will come back to this later.

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Blogger Sign-Up, Title and Address. Step Three.

Blogger Sign-Up, your blog Title and Address.

• Easy  to follow instructions. NB:Use your Google email to link Blogger and Google accounts.
• This is for adding your ad sense advertising to your blog.
• Choose your Blog's name carefully, it must be relevant to what you blogging about and in a certain way (This was my very first mistake) ie. I made the mistake of naming my first blog "For the global sports fan and the babes that follow them" and if I had known, I would have started a new blog and deleted this one, but I spend weeks and weeks going through how to make my blog be viewed and popular, because I got no views and when I search my blog in Google I could not find it. So I found out my name is not going to get search engine hits, because of various reasons. So I changed my blogs name to " Ultimate Sports and Fitness Blog" very easily in the design tab at the top of my blog page and while I was busy, I change my address (URL), because by now I was an expert researcher ( so I thought). That was an even bigger mistake. Great name, millions of hits on this type of name, but nobody will ever see it, because when I hit create on the first name and address, Google indexed it as a new blog and then when I change it Google did not index it again, because now you have to submit manually to the webmaster and it will be conflicting and Google sees it as copy wright issues, because the browser sees it as to exact to another site or copy of another site.Thus Google wont index it and if you get it right after you created a sitemap, you still wont get hits.
• So choose one Title and Address and stick to it or delete and start a new blog.
• Template, choose the simple template.( Don't get sucked in to the others, this one you can personalize the most.
• Do this now!!
• Continue to next post,please and remember click some adverts on my blog.

How to choose your blog host. Step Two.

How to choose your blog host. Step Two.

Every blog author wants their blog to be viewed. This should be number one or two on your top priorities list, for various reasons. (if not, go home, blogging is not for you), If yes, read on.   

After you finished with step one, its now time to decide which host and template you going to use. Again there are many to choose from, but I chose Blogger.com.

And I will explain how to set-up a blog at blogger.com by creating a Test Blog.

WordPress and others are similar and my tips will mostly work for them, but my links to site set-ups wont. If you just started a blog and having trouble getting it indexed on browsers or want to earn some money through advertising or want to change your content, pages or tabs. Dont waste your time. The moment you updated or published your first post, before all the right steps and set-up was done, it was indexed, and now you are posting and publishing conflicting posts and tags/labels and Google may not even index anything you post after your very first post. START A NEW BLOG FROM SCRATCH WITH MY EASY TO UNDERSTAND STEPS and get it right this time.

• I chose Blogger.com templates, because they are very integrated into Google  networks, with nice easy widgets ready to paste and apply to your blog.
• I will now open a Test Blog on Blogger.com and explain step by step and with links to other blogs, HOW TO BLOG ON BLOGGER.COM
• You must Follow me step by step and don't change anything I do. Do exactly as I do.( One wrong click or add and you back to square one. Like me, with weeks of work down the drain.
• OK, here we go:
• First bookmark this page. (How to: click the grey icon star, top right hand corner next to the tool/ spanner icon. Bookmark pop up will open and click "folder" and choose the "Blog" folder that you created in step one.
• Secondly the following link will open on a new page( Bookmark this page to the Blog file,this is your Blogger Dash board for all your Blogs) thus, you can alternate between this page for instructions and the new page you busy applying my instructions on. DON'T CLOSE ANY OF THESE TWO PAGES YET.(How to: Alter between these two pages- at the very top right hand corner, there you see these pages "Blogger: HOW TO BUI x" is highlighted ,this is my page,your instructions page and next to that you see a darker, in the back ground, a page that says "Blogger:..." this is your page. To change between them click the darker one. BE CAREFUL, DON'T CLICK THE x (This is to close a page)
• Now I will open a Test Blog and give you step by step details on what I am Doing and How to. After clicking link below, continue to next post.
• Click here to start your Blog.( Reply to this post, if you struggling.)

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Before you get started. Step one.

Before you get started. Step one.

I use the Google Chrome browser, easier to get my blog index and Google has a lot of blogger tools and is easy to integrate accounts.(I tried iGoogle, but messed up my settings)

• In any search/ browser provider, type "Google Chrome", open and set as default search browser, by clicking the tool/ spanner in the top right hand corner, under the red block with x in(closing tab). Go to settings in the pop up page and right at the bottom of page, in a grey tab, it says "Make Google Chrome my Default" click this and under that tab it will then confirm this. 
• NOW MAKE A BOOKMARK FOLDER AND NAME IT "BLOG", Click the Star  icon next to the tool/ spanner icon in the top right hand corner.Every site related and every account you sign up, like Twitter, your Gmail, Facebook, Adsense, everything, there will be lots more, all these pages bookmark them in this folder. It makes it so much easier to navigate to your blog related pages later. If a page asks you if you want to save passwords and or asks to keep you signed in, click yes.
• Open a free email account with Google Gmail,this is very straight forward. This will also create your google account that links everything, from your profile, setting, sign-in, +1 rating, your follower circles and your Advertisement revenue(via your Google Adsense automated advertising account-Will be explained later) and will be useful for one click  feed links and many more features you will need to make your blog viewed. Click this link for gmail set-up. After your email is set-up,click on this link again,that you used for your email set-up and now click Google account on left hand side and follow to create. (post reply on this post,if you get stuck, your posts will come straight to my email)

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