Once you have created your blog, you may want to alter the administrative settings to allow you to control the number of people involved in creating the blog, the number of people able to view the blog, and other aspects of the blog, such as time zone, language, and visibility to search engines. These administrative settings will be discussed in this post; changing the creative settings for your blog will be discussed in a later post.
Add authors/administrators
To allow additional people to create content for your blog, you can add them as authors. If you would like them to be able to change administrative settings for your blog, you should make them administrators. Both actions require the same first step:
From your admin area, choose Settings on the bottom of the left sidebar.
This will bring you to the Basic page, where you can add authors or administrators. Under Permissions, click the link Add authors, and enter the email address(es) of the author(s) you would like to add.
If people accept your invitation to be an author on your blog, they will appear along with you in the Blog Authors box.
Once a person has accepted your invitation to be an author, you can change their privileges to Admin if you like.
From your admin area, choose Settings on the bottom of the left sidebar.
This will bring you to the Basic page, where you can add authors or administrators. Under Permissions, click the link Add authors, and enter the email address(es) of the author(s) you would like to add.
If people accept your invitation to be an author on your blog, they will appear along with you in the Blog Authors box.
Once a person has accepted your invitation to be an author, you can change their privileges to Admin if you like.
Permissions to view the blog
You can determine who has permission to read your blog. On the Settings/Basic page, under Permissions, click Edit next to Blog Readers.
You can decide if your blog is open to the public, or just the authors, or you can enter the email addresses of readers you choose to invite to view your blog (invited readers will need to log in each time to read your blog). It's up to you!
You can decide if your blog is open to the public, or just the authors, or you can enter the email addresses of readers you choose to invite to view your blog (invited readers will need to log in each time to read your blog). It's up to you!
Other privacy issues
Do you want your blog to be visible to search engines? Do you want it listed in Google Blogger? The default answer to each of these questions is YES, so if you want to change that answer, you will need to go to Settings/Basic, and under Privacy, and click Edit, next to Listed on Blogger. Visible to search engines.
Other Blogger administrative settings
The Language and formatting settings section of Settings allows you to change the language of your blog, as well as the time zone and the format in which your times and dates appear.
The Search Preferences section of Settings allows you to enter a searchable description of your blog, effectively tagging it for search engines.
Under the Meta tags section, simply click on Edit, choose that you would like the Metatags description enabled, click Save changes, and then compose your description in the provided box. Click Save changes again, and you will be more easily findable by search engines.
Under the Meta tags section, simply click on Edit, choose that you would like the Metatags description enabled, click Save changes, and then compose your description in the provided box. Click Save changes again, and you will be more easily findable by search engines.
The Other section of Settings allows you to customize the RSS feed features of your blog, by editing the Site feed section.
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