Help people find your blog

To help readers find your blog, there are two things you can do: 

1.       Add your blog to our listings.

2.       Allow search engines to find your blog.

Our listings include Blogger and Next Blog. You can link to your blog from the Blogger home page and Next Blog. Next Blog is a button in the Blogger navigation bar that people can click to see blogs that match their interests. To make these changes, you’ll change your privacy settings so that your blog can be found by search engines.

1.       Sign in to blogger.com.

2.       Click on the name of the blog that you want to edit.

3.       Click Settings on the left.

4.       Next to Privacy, click Edit

5.       Mark Yes and click Save Changes.

TIPS:

·         If you select "No," your blog won't appear in these places, but it'll still be available on the Internet. 

·         This blog will still be displayed on your profile. If you want to hide it, unselect the relevant checkbox from the Select Blogs to Display page.

·         If you have a Google+ profile, list your blog in your About section. You can include it under “Links”, “Contributor to.”

Why do I have word verification on my posting form?

 Word verification on the posting form is meant to be a spam reduction mechanism for BlogSpot in general. There are two potential causes:

Potential Spam

In this case, word verification is applied to certain potential spam blogs by an automated system. Because this is automated there will necessarily be some false positives, though we're continually working on improving our algorithms to avoid these. If your blog is one of the false positives, we apologize. Having the word verification on your posting form does not prevent you from publishing and does not mean that your blog will be deleted or otherwise punished if it is not actually in violation of our policies.

To avoid further inconveniences when publishing, click the "?" (question mark) icon next to the word verification on your posting form:

That will take you to a page where you can request a review for your blog. We'll have someone look at it, verify that it isn't spam, and then white list your blog so it no longer has the word verification requirement.

High Posting Rate

If you make a large number of posts in a single day, you will be required to complete a word verification for each one, independent of whether your blog has been cleared as a potential spam or not. If this happens to you, simply complete the word verification for each post, or wait 24 hours, at which point it will be removed automatically. 

This restriction is in place as much to control the load on our servers as to prevent explicit spam. Therefore, there is not a white listing review process to exempt individual blogs. 

Notes:

·         In cases where word verification is required, all posts made via email will be saved as drafts, rather than published.

·         This is unrelated to the word verification setting for comments.

·         If your word verification is continually reported as incorrect, even though you are entering the correct letters, please try logging out, clearing your browser's cache and Blogger.com cookies, then logging in again to post. Remember to copy and paste your post to a text file first, to keep it safe.

Related Articles:

·         About Spam Blogs

Quick Edit links

 Quick Edit links give you quick and direct access to edit your posts after they've been published. You probably know the scenario well—you publish a long post, then start proofreading it on your blog. You find a mistake, so you go back to Blogger's Edit Posts page, locate the post and fix/republish it. You continue proofreading, find another mistake, and on and on. Quick Edit links take you directly to the post in Blogger, bypassing (most of) the process described previously.

Quick Edit links work their magic using cookies, so they only appear if you're signed in to your Google Account. Therefore, no one else sees them except you. To enable them, go to the Layout tab on your blog, and select “Edit” under the Blog post widget.

From there, check the box for "Show Quick Editing."

Here's what Quick Edit links look like:

 

Enjoy!

(if they're acting funny for some reason, read on for some technical tidbits...)

·         If you're using a classic template, you must have the <$BlogMetaData$> tag in your template's <head> section, and the <$BlogItemControl$> tag wherever you want the Quick Edit links to appear. We suggest somewhere in your "Posted by" line.

·         CSS files are aggressively cached for performance reasons. This means you may have to reload or even super-reload (with the Shift key) to make links appear/disappear after you sign in or out. If you're signed out, you’ll still be prompted to sign back in.

·         Edit links on your own blog will only work if your browser is sending the referrer to Blogger, and if your blog URL's host is the same as the referrer host.

·         Finally, some more intense security settings will not send cookies to hosts other than the main one. This means your session cookie won't get sent to Blogger.com if you're looking at a blog, and the edit link won't show up.

I'm Having Trouble with Blogger Mobile

The first step is to test for a connection between your mobile device and our servers. We have created a simple test to help determine where your problem lies, and based on the results, will provide you with tips to get Blogger Mobile working properly.

Note: This test is only for Blogger Mobile, and not for Sony Ericsson's BlogThis! feature. For information on BlogThis!, please take a look at this handy help article.

First, send a text message with your email address to test@blogger.com. If a good connection exists, you should then receive a text reply from Blogger on your mobile device. In addition, we'll email the same response to you at the address you specified.

You should receive one of the following messages:

·         Your carrier is not supported by Blogger Mobile: We're working to support as many carriers as possible. In the meantime, you can try our Mail-to-Blogger feature.

·         Error finding token: We received a message from your mobile device, but were unable to find your token.

·         No Corresponding blog found: A good connection exists between your mobile device and Blogger, however, it seems that you haven't created a blog yet. Send an MMS to go@blogger.com to create your mobile blog, then run this test again if you don't receive a token.

·         Blog Token [XXXXX]: This is your mobile token. You can use it to claim your mobile blog at go.blogger.com. When you claim your blog, you'll have the option to merge this blog with an existing blog.

Services that work with Blogger Mobile

Blogger Mobile currently supports the listed carriers for the following countries. The carriers are listed by their MMS alias. If you're unsure what alias your carrier uses, simply send a MMS to yourself at an email address and observe the From: field of the email.

Sony Ericsson phones use different functionality to connect you to your mobile blog. Please see this article for more information about using Sony Ericsson's BlogThis! feature.

If you do not see your carrier listed in the blow list, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate your mobile service.

·         Australia ·         Czech Republic. ·         France ·         Germany ·         Ireland ·         Italy ·         Japan ·         Norway

·         Poland ·         Portugal ·         Spain ·         Sweden ·         United Kingdom ·         United States ·         Webmail

Australia

·         airdata.com

Czech Republic

·         smtp.etmail.cz

·         smtp.t-email.cz

·         smtp.vodafonemail.cz

·         iol.cz

France

·         smtp.bouygtel.fr

·         mail.sfr.net

·         smtp.orange.fr

Germany

·         o2online.de

Ireland

·         meteor.ie

·         o2.ie

·         vodafone.ie

·         orangemms.net

Italy

·         vodafone.it

·         mms.tim.it

·         mms.tre.it

·         mms.wind.it

Japan

       docomo.ne.jp 

    ezweb.ne.jp

·         pdx.ne.jp

·         softbank.ne.jp

·         vodafone.ne.jp

Norway

·         mmsc.mobil.telenor.no

·         mms.mobyson.no

·         mobil.telenor.no

·         netcom.no,

Poland

·         eranet.pl

·         playmobile.pl

·         orange.pl

·         plusnet.pl

·         centertel.pl

Portugal

·         mms.vodafone.pt

·         mms.optimus.pt

Spain

·         movistar.com

Sweden

·         telia.com

United Kingdom

·         o2imail.co.uk

·         orange.co.uk

United States

·         airbridge.net

·         blackberry.net

·         blswe.com

·         cingularme.com

·         danger.com

·         dngr.net

·         gocbw.com

·         lightsurf.net

·         mmode.com

·         mms.att.net

·         mms.helio.com

·         mms.myhelio.com

·         mms.net

·         mycingular.com

·         mycingular.net

·         myvzw.com

·         nextel.com

·         sprint.com

·         sprintpcs.com

·         tmail.com

·         tmodns.net

·         tmomail.net

·         txt.att.net

·         verizon.net

·         vtext.com

·         vzwpix.com

Webmail

·         gmail.com

·         hotmail.com

·         yahoo.com