What Is Indexing?

Google and other search engines have their own rules and criteria for indexing blogs and other sites, but each one "crawls" the entire Internet every so often and "looks" at and stores info about most every site. The indexing is not immediate for your site, so you may have to wait for your site to show up on any search engines. Your site can't be "Googled" by you or your friends until the indexing can occur once or more after you've created your blog. Try not to be anxious while you're waiting, possibly as long as a month. The indexers may do a better job for your particular site if your site has some connections (links) to and from other sites--that's the usual view taken by people who hope to increase traffic to their site. [More below...] There are additional things you can do to improve traffic, listed in a link at the bottom of this post. Look for "Additional Information". After you've been indexed, the chances of your friends finding your site will increase and the chance of traffic by total strangers increasing will also improve. You should notify your friends and make new ones online and always try to write good (interesting) posts. All that attention being paid to your site will make your site more noticeable to the automated indexers (robots, aka "spiders") that crawl across the Internet. Sounds creepy, doesn't it? You may also want to know this additional information if you are new to blogging.

What Is A Layout Page?

In case you're wondering what Blogger is talking about. It's the page where you can create, move and arrange the page elements (especially the ones for the sidebar) as you would like them to be. Place your cursor on the boxes after you create an element, hold the mouse left-click down as you move the mouse.



PAGE ELEMENTS AKA "GADGETS".

ALSO SEE: Page Elements Screenshot

Future-Dating A Post -- NEW!

Create the illusion of "being there".!

Future Dating of posts is now available from Blogger Click here to see Blogger's instructions about it! Now you can leave some posts lined up when you are about to leave on vacation or for a month in jail and they will publilsh, one or more every day, while you're absent. So many people have inquired about this for the past five years that I suppose a lot of people will now praise the lord and send their checks (as usual) to the nation's poor. I have heard a great many complaints about how it "doesn't work", yet I don't think I've had a single one fail to publish. Admittedly, I am using the "future-publishing" on a more infrequent basis than some people. I doubt I ever use it more than 2 or 3 times a week. [More below...] There doesn't appear to be any difficult moves added to the Publishing process. It works the way many of us used to think would just be logical. One could always use the Post Options to change the date to anything you liked, but there was no automatic publishing--you always had to come back and hit the publish "button" on that date. 1. Give a date and time in Post Options for tomorrow, next week, or whenever 2. Then hit Publish, 3. The system will show a sign that says the post will be automatically published on X date at X time. 4. the system will wait until that date and time to publish it. Couldn't be simpler, unless they screw it up. If they screw it up, let me know.

TOS Violation Page

Where to go to report the troublemakers, including a screenshot of the report page:



Contact this page and report any of these items at:

Terms of Service Violations.

Be sure to click in the most appropriate of the circles, then click "Continue".

ALSO SEE: Reconsideration Request

Strikethrough Code

Once in a while someone knows about the strikethrough tag without knowing what its called or how to utilize it, so here is the strikethrough tags: <strike>TEXT</strike> I don't see any way to do this in Compose Mode, so you have to switch to the Edit Html Mode in order to do it. At times people don't know the exact word that's involved in this and may say "cancel" or some other similar word.

Line-Height

Below is not a solution to why line-height may arbitrarily change in your posts, but it is a fix. When that line-height change happens, try the following for the post text:

<div style="line-height: 18px;">TEXT</div>

You may need a different number (of px) to match your own blog post, so see how it adjusts with larger and smaller numbers. .

You could avoid the aggravation of typing it each time by putting the code above in the Settings-Post Template and it would be inserted for you already in each new post—then you can either use, delete, or ignore it.

Welcoming:

The new blue



Divider!



Long may your freak flag fly free.

People Can't See My Profile?

Maybe it's not activated.
Go back to your Dashboard. On the far left, click on Edit Profile (to the right of your photo). Make sure you've clicked "Share my profile". At bottom of page, click "Save Profile".

Remove Blogger Help Group Message

To delete a word (or the whole message) you left in Blogger Help Group (BHG)

[You can do it, but there's no direct way to do so.]

Revise your message
1. Copy your message and revise it. 2. Copy the new text and/or code. 3. Paste the revised info into a new message. 4. If it works out right, delete (Remove) the original message.

Remove Message In Blogger Help Group:
1. Click on "more options" in the upper right corner of your own message. 2. Click on "Remove" in the list of options in blue text. 3. Click on "Yes, remove it now". 4. Click the "Confirm" button.

If it feels like you're telling it to do the above 3 times at least, welcome to the club!

Dashboard Example

These are some old instructions and I'll update it when I feel like it. The screen has changed. Sorry.

Above screenshot shows several blogs on the left, the Edit Profile section on the right, and the Language drop-down menu below that.

Edit Profile, to state the obvious, is where you go to paste the url for your Profile Photo.