How to Setup a Blog using Blogger(Blogspot)

1. Sign in to your blogger account
2. Select blog of same categories you want in a page
3. Click on label icon above
4. Create and name label  eg “News”.

You can create as many label as you want to categorize your blog.

Now,after labels as been created, go further to create page. You can create your page depending on your template design.

If your template layout have main menu gadget

Follow this step, go-to your site url, click label you want use as page. Let it load and copy the label url.

How to add “about page” to blogger

“About us” page is a very essential page in website. People know more about website in this page. In this tutorial, I will show you how you can create “about is ” page in blogger blog.

• Firstly, sign in to blogger.
• Go to page
• Create page and name it “About us”
• Write your passion on “About us”

• Publish it and view it.

• Copy the “About us ” page url

How to write robots.txt file for SEO optimization in blogger

Each blog hosted on blogger has it default robots.txt file that looks like this

How does this code works?

As you can see,this code is divided in to three stage. The first which is 

It allow google to automatically run ads on your website so I advice to leave it unchanged.

It allow all search bot or crawler to crawl and index your site due to the (*) on top of user-agent and Disallow:/search mean the link having SEARCH will be ignore by search engine.

Moreso, if you remove Disallow:/search from the above code then crawlers will access our entire blog to index and crawl all of its content and web pages.

Here Allow: / refers to the Homepage that means web crawlers can crawl and index our blog’s homepage.

How to Disallow Particular Post

Now suppose if we want to exclude a particular post from indexing then we can add below lines in the code.

Here yyyy and mm refers to the publishing year and month of the post respectively. For example if we have published a post in year 2013 in month of March then we have to use below format.

To make this task easy, you can simply copy the post URL and remove the blog name from the beginning.

How to Disallow Particular Page

If we need to disallow a particular page then we can use the same method as above. Simply copy the page URL and remove blog address from it which will something look like this:

Sitemap:

Adding robots.txt file

Follow the step below to add robots.txt file

• Go to your blogger blog.
• Navigate to Settings >> Search Preferences ›› Crawlers and indexing ›› Custom robots.txt ›› Edit ›› Yes
• Nowpaste your robots.txt file code in the box.
• Click on Save Changes button.
• You are done! 

How you can check your robots txt file.

You can check this file on your blog by adding /robots.txt at the end of your blog URL in the web browser. For example:

Once you visit the robots.txt file URL you will see the entire code which you are using in your custom robots.txt file.

How to add meta description in blogger

Meta description is most important to blog as it help search engine to know the content of blog. And also help improving our rank in search engine as it is show as snippet in search engine result.

Now after knowing the important and usefulness of meta description, let’s move to how you can add meta description to your blogger blog.

Allowing meta description in blogger blog.

• Go to blog settings>search preference
  
• Click edit and Point Yes to Enable Search Description and enter a brief meta description of your blog there. (max 150 words). Remember it will be your blog’s homepage meta description.
  
• Click save you are done.

Adding meta description to each post.

1. Go to your Blog Posts and click Add a new post or Edit the existing ones.
2. Click Search Description option under Post settings. (This option appears only after you enabled search description, discussed above)
   
3. Enter the meta description for the post and click Done.

You are all done and ready to boost up your search rankings. You can check that these tags are working well on your blog using this tool. Meta Description Checker

Set a custom domain in blogger blog(blogspot)

Most people start their blog or website with blogspot sub-domain.(yourdomain.blogspot.com). Having your own custom domain name is of those thing I always advice blogger to do.

Reason’s for having a custom domain name?

• Usually, blogger is likely to overrun by spammers
• Custom domain (your own) you can move from one host to another.
• It looks more professional
• You can have your own email address
• Most website don’t like blogspot domain for back link.

How to use custom domain with blogger(blogspot).

If you are a blogger and you want your own domain and continue to use Blogger’s free hosting, follow the guidelines highlighted below;

• Step 1 – Login into your Blogger account.
• Step 2 – Click on “Settings” and then “Basic”.

• Step 3 – Click on “Add a custom domain” under “Blog Address” field in “Publishing” section.

• Step 4 – Key in your domain name in the text box and click “Save”.

 

• Do take note blogs are not to be placed on bare domains (like yourdomain.com). You will need a subdomain, for example, blog.yourdomain.com.
• Step 5 – You will see two CNAME records once the page refreshes.

• Step 6 – You will have to key in both CNAME into your DNS zone.
• Step 7 – Wait for a few hours for the domain to propagate and your new domain will take effect on your Blogger blog.

I have continue to update this article to give you the best blogger/blogspot update. Thanks for reading. Please do note that this article has been writing long again, for update and corrections, please use the comments section. Cheers!