How to Install a Blogroll on Blogger

by Adrian Grahams, Demand Media

 

  A blogroll allows you to link to your favorite blogs and recommend them to your readers. Providing links to other blogs can also help you to promote your own blog because the blogs in your blogroll might return the favor and link back to you. The Blogger service includes a blogroll gadget called Blog List that you can install on your blog through Blogger’s Design settings page.

Step 1Sign in to your Blogger account to open the default Blogger Dashboard page. Scroll down the Dashboard page to find the blog on which you want to display the Blog List blogroll gadget.

Step 2Click the blue “Design” tab under the blog’s title to launch the Add and Arrange Page Elements section of Blogger’s Design settings pages.

Related Reading: How to Create a Separate Blogroll on WordPress

Step 3Click the “Add a Gadget” link in the sidebar section of the page. If you want to display the blogroll at the top or bottom of the page instead of the sidebar, click an “Add a Gadget” link in these locations.

Step 4Scroll to the Blog List gadget in the Add a Gadget window. Click the “+” button to open the gadget configuration window.

Step 5Click the blue “Add to List” button at the bottom of the window. Type the URL of a blog that you want to display in the blogroll into the “Add by URL” field. You can also automatically add the blogs that you follow in Blogger or Google Reader by clicking the relevant radio button. Click the orange “Add” button to add the blog. Repeat this process for each blog that you want to display in the Blog List blogroll.

Step 6Type a title for the blogroll into the “Title” field. Click your preferred display order from the “Sort” drop-down menu. You can choose to display the blogs alphabetically or with the most recently updated blogs displayed first. Select the blog content that you want to show for each blog by clicking and selecting the relevant check box. You can display the blog’s icon, the title of the most recent post, a post snippet and thumbnail image.

Step 7Click the orange “Save” button to store your changes and add the Blog List blogroll to your blog.

Tip

Add new blogs to the blogroll at any time by clicking “Add to List” to add a new blog.

 

Reference:  http://smallbusiness.chron.com/install-blogroll-blogger-31434.html