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Blog Privacy 101

Pt. 4 of 10 | 2:47 |

Beginner's Guide to Blogging with Blogger

Thursday March 19, 2009

Your blog settings is where you can do things like change the title of your blog, add a description to go along with the title or even use your own custom domain for your blog. It's also where you can decide just who can see your blog - anyone on the Internet or select people who you invite. If you want to add additional authors to contribute stories and content to your blog you can do that in your settings as well. Your settings page is like the hub of your blog so make sure you take the time to go through them and create the functionality that you desire.

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- On the Dashboard section click on the Settings link. This brings you to the settings section of your blog.

- You can change your title, add description and turn on the ability to add your blog to blog listings and search engines.

- If you own your own domain you can have it pointed at your blog by clicking Publishing under the tab menu and then clicking on the Custom Domain link. You can also change the blog address on the same page. This means that visitors to www.yourwebsitename.com will automatically be redirected to your blog.

- Under the Formatting link you can change how many posts are shown on your page as well as the date and time formating.

- The Comments link will allow you enable or disable comments, who can and can't comment, if you want to moderate comments and more.

- Under the Archiving link you can select how frequently your blogs are archived.

- Site Feed allows you to change settings on how your posts will appear in follower's site readers.

- Email allows you to set up a contact list of people to notify when you have updated your blog.

- You can also set up the ability to post from a mobile phone.

- Permissions will allow you to add other people to publish to your blog. You can also limit the people who view your blog

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