Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Blogger Tutorial: Switching from Google to Blogger Profiles

*Note: I can't believe I've passed 50 followers! I've really only been working on and promoting my blog for a week and a half, so I definitely have YOU to thank for that! I'm busy working on a freebie to celebrate. I'll post it soon! In the meantime... I hope this is helpful to someone other than me!*

Once I started my blog, I realized that I was sometimes getting followers whose profiles didn't show any blogs... but then, they'd leave a comment and have a blog! It was weird, and I wasn't sure why I couldn't just find their blog directly from their profile.

Then, I realized that if I wanted people to easily check out MY blog, I needed to make sure my profile had a direct blog link. Turns out, there are two kinds of profiles you can choose to "follow" a blog with- your Google profile or your Blogger profile. For me, my Google profile has my name and my Blogger profile has a screen name (luckeyfrog). My Google profile will tell you a little about me, but my Blogger profile will show you my blog!


To me, it was important to make sure that I was following everyone with my Blogger profile, but now, I had to figure out how to do it.

Go to your Blogger dashboard, and scroll down past your blogs to where it says Reading List.




At the bottom, you'll see a blue button that says "Manage." Click it!

Once you are at the Manage Blogs I'm Following page, you can click on each blog and change the settings. I wish that I knew a better way to do this (believe me) but I think you have to do it one-by-one.

Click on the word "Settings" to the right of the blog. (For me, it was easiest to open a page's worth at once into tabs, change the settings on those, and then scroll down to the next group.)


Here, it shows you your profile on that blog. This shows me I am "currently using my Google profile." My Google profile is different from my Blogger profile, which would lead someone to find my blog, so I want to change it.



Click Change underneath the profile box if your Blogger profile is not shown. (By the way, have you checked out Mrs. Castro's Class? I just found her blog and I love it!)


Now, just click Blogger. It won't immediately do anything, but after a few seconds, it should work. I did get an error message a few times, but when I clicked Back and tried again, it worked.

If you did it right, you should see this:

 
And, of course, you can see in the background that my profile for this blog is now luckeyfrog. From now on, I'll just make sure that's what I put when I sign up as a follower!



It took me maybe half an hour to do this for each blog I follow, which wasn't bad, but then I realized that I'm not "following" those blogs I just have a feed for on Google Reader. Oh well- that'll be my next project!

Let me know if this was helpful for you. I don't know if this is something anyone else cares about...?

5 comments:

  1. Thanks for this tutorial! Now, I know to always follow with Blogger. Thanks!

    I'll link this page to my Tutorials page.

    Congrats on your 50+ followers!

    Cheers,
    Kate
    Innovate, Create and Relate

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  2. This is great, thank you. I was wondering why some people had this on their blogs. I will try to fix mine as well:))Congrats on your new blog:)

    Corinna
    Surfin' Through Second

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  3. Thanks this is such a big help! HOWEVER, my blogger profile has no picture or anything. How do I fix that?
    :-(

    Cynthia
    www.2ndgradepad.blogspot.com/

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    1. Are you using the old or new interface?

      Under old Blogger (blue at the top with a tan background), go to your Dashboard? On the left side, you should have an option to Edit Profile.

      Under new Blogger, go to your dashboard and you should see your username up in the upper right-hand corner of the screen. If you click The little down arrow, you can click Blogger Profile. It should give you an orange Edit Profile button in the top right corner!

      Hopefully that helps!

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  4. Thanks for the step by step. I am your newest follower. Come on over and visit my blog sometime:

    http://www.memosfromamultisensoryteacher.com/

    Candi : )

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