How to Blog?

The Blogger help community, recently had an issue where there was a great confusion on Blogger Platform language and Blogger Blog language . So I decided to go ahead and write in detail about it. There are two important terms here to begin with, Blogger Platform Blogger Blog Blogger Platform is what you see when you go to Blogger platform. The operating system that helps you write and manage your blogs on Blogger.  That is what I see when I go to my Blogger Platform, Blogger Blog is what you see when you go to the URL of the blog you created and is managing at Blogger Platform . My Blogger Blog URL is https://howtoblog.krishnainfotron.com which will show me my blog as below, That said, let's discuss about the language confusions. Blogger Platform language is the language you would see when you go to https://blogger.com . This language earlier was preferable specifically for blogger. (i.e) You can have a separate language chosen for Blogger platform irrespecti...

Since Google has closed it's social networking service called the Google+ for consumers, few products has some effect on it. One of them is our very own blogger. We could see that update notification in our blogger dashboard as below, Besides from the things gone as mentioned in Blogger's official blog post here ->  An update on Google+ and Blogger , we have a confusion on profile that needs to be clarified. That is the reason why I am writing this down. There are now two profiles, Blogger profile Google profile Blogger profile -  Where does this appear? This appears in all of your blogs if you have your profile gadget added. You can see that on this blog in the top right, How do I update this profile? Go to https://blogger.com Navigate to Settings > Scroll all the way down to General section. Click on User profile  in this section You'll be navigated to  https://www.blogger.com/edit-profile.g where you can edit your profile that appea...

An interesting query from one of the Blogger user whose Navbar has a different language than expected. We earlier discussed that, it's the blog owner's choice to show what language they wish to see in Blogger blog. Read below, How to Blog?: Blogger Language Confusions However there's one more small confusion right there. What if the blog you are visiting has the old theme which has Navbar on the top like below? Could you see the "More" button near the search box in the Navbar? This button is in English while the blog is in a different language. Now, how can that happen? Here's the confusion. Navbar although incorporated inside a blog, it is a part of Google products and not the blog. To confirm this, I went ahead and changed my Google account language. How did I do that? Go to https://myaccount.google.com Navigate to Data & Personalisation > Scroll down to "General preferences for the web" Click on "Language"...

In the Blogger community forum, I happened to help a user who was not able to publish their blogspot address to their custom domain. After doing all the debugging, there was no option left out but to contact Google and finally we have known what the problem is. The problem was that the URL was not available for use in blogger.  Here on, before spending money on buying a domain, please ensure blogger allows it. Why isn't the custom domain available to buy but not available to use on Blogger? That'd be the first question every user would ask or think to ask. Unfortunately reason is un-disclosed by Blogger themselves.  So how do we know if a domain is available at Blogger or not? Earlier, there used to be no way we could do this as Blogger would throw a more generic error like below, Now, we get a more customised error for this particular case alone like below, So, here on, before spending money on buying a domain, please try publishing your blog in the domain name you are planni...

Blogger, like the language confusions have one more confusion with respect to Blog description. We have two descriptions setup in Blogger. Blog display description. Blog search description. Display Description is the description that appears when you visit your blog in the header under your blog title. For example, you could see the description of my blog,