BE A SUCCESSFUL BLOGGER

Suppose you are writing in your blog regularly, and readers comment on old post. You may not notice it, unless you open that post. If you get a notification of comments through email, you will not miss any of them. you can do it easily.

Go to SETTING tab. Select the fourth sub tab, comments. Scroll down to see the last option : Comment Notification Email. Enter your email address in which you want to receive the comments. you can enter upto 10 emails. Save setting. Now, you can read the comments, through emails without opening the blog.

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In the blogs, you can see a link as Followers. That means, if dont want to miss any posting of a particular blog, you can add yourself as a Follower. It is very simple and easy.

Click the link, 'Follow' and sign in using your gmail userid and password. Thats all finished. Close it.

Now open www.blogger.com and sign in using your same gmail user id and password. You enter 'Dashboard'. In the second half of the page, you can 'Reading List' where, the posts of the blogs you follow are listed. It gets updated itself and you can see the blog posts of all the blogs you follow in that. So you can easily know which blog is updated with out ever opening that blog.

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When you start a blog, you give a name for it as http://sumazla.blogspot.com. Later you may want to change your name. There is an easy way to do it.

Log on to www.blogger.com. Go to SETTINGS tab. In that, you can see number of sub tabs. Out of it, second tab is 'PUBLISHING'. Select that.

Now you can see the name of your blog in a small box. Click on the box and change the name. Click the 'check availability' link below to check, if it already exist. Enter the word verification and click 'SAVE SETTINGS' button.

Thats all. Now your blog's name is changed. You change it any number of time.

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Label is a useful widget for blog. Suppose, your blog is about flowers, and you want to post three topics on roses and three topics on lotus and four topics on lilies. Then you use labels.

When you are posting, you see "Labels for this post:" in the bottom of your window. Add what ever you want in that. Here in our example, type lotus, roses or lilies accordingly and publish post. Now you have posted totally 10 posts where three about roses, three about lotus and four about lilies.

Now go to layout and click "ADD A GADGET". In the window that opens, select LABELS and click SAVE. Now save your layout and view the blog.

You see like this in the side bar:
lilies(4)
lotus(3)
roses(3)

When you click this link, you get all the related posts.

When you enter your label names, you see a link, "Show all". when you click this, you get a list of all the labels you have already entered. Suppose if you want to give two or more labels for a single post, you can separate them using commas.

-Sumazla.