Basic Blog Settings
Let us change some of the settings in blogger for SEO purpose and/or for our theme to function properly. Go to Blogger Dashboard > Settings.
Basic
Title
If you are not using custom logo images, the title will be visible as your logo. Keep your title short and sweet. Example: Prime Blogger
Description
Add your blog description for SEO purposes. Keep the word count to 150 characters. Example:
Prime is a bold blogger theme that delivers professional design with seo optimization, ads slots and market trending features.
Google Analytics ID
Insert your google analytics ID for keeping track of your pageviews and other factors.
Favicon
Upload your blog favicon for brand verification. If you are facing issues in generating favicon, we recommend using Favicon Generator (opens in a new tab).
Privacy and HTTPS
Visible to Search Engine
Enable this option to make your website visible to search crawlers.
HTTPS Redirect
Enable this feature to prevent unwanted attacks and maintaining your site secure. Some of our resources uses HTTPS protocol to fetch data, so it is important to activate it.
Posts
Max posts shown on main page
Set it to 9 to display latest nine articles on your homepage or blog page.
Enable this features
- Image lightbox
- Lazy load images
- WebP image serving
Comments
Comment Location
It is important to set it to Embedded.
Who can comment?
We recommend you to set it to Anyone(including anonymous) to utilize default features of Prime theme. If not, you can set it to other options too.
Comment Moderation
Blogger comments are prone to many spam messages, set moderation to Always for keeping blog page spam-free.
Comment Form Message
It will be displayed above comment form. Keep the message short and simple. Example:
Please leave comments related to the content. All comments are highly moderated and visible upon approval.
Formatting
Date Header Format
Set this to option 3. Example: Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Timestamp and Comment Timestamp format
Both should be set to option 3. Example: 12/12/2023 06:11:52 PM. This is important for displaying proper time formats on posts and comments.
Site Feed
Other settings
Enable Search Description
This is important for SEO purpose. Activate this option and enter your blog search description. Also, you will be prompt with meta description option while writing articles.
Crawlers and Indexing
Enable Custom robots.txt and robots header tags. Learn how to set it up (opens in a new tab).