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How To Care Google+ Comments On Your Blogger Blog

By ahlikom

Blogger volition switch all blogs using Google+ Comments to Blogger Comments on Feb 4, 2019 every bit component subdivision of the shutdown of Google+. Learn more.

Blogger offers ii dissimilar comment systems for your blog. You tin purpose the Blogger comment system, or you lot tin purpose the Google+ comment system.  They component subdivision significantly differently, together with then it's practiced to sympathize what the differences are earlier you lot origin getting comments on your blog.

I'm using the Blogger Comment organisation here, because I hold off a meaning percent of my readers volition non live on active Google+ users. Here's my suggestion:

Use Google+ Comments if you lot hold off most of your readers to convey a Google+ Profile together with you lot are non concerned nigh comment moderation.

Use Blogger Comments if you lot desire to permit anonymous posting, or comments from people without a Google+ Profile together with you lot desire a diversity of comment moderation options.

How produce Blogger comments together with Google+ comments compare?


. Blogger Comments Google+ Comments
Your Profile Blogger or Google+ Google+ only
Commenter Profile You educate requirement Google+ only
Comment Moderation On posts or inward trace of piece of occupation organisation human relationship On posts only
Non-visible comments No Possible
Share comments
as a post on Google+		 No Yes
See Google+ shares
as comments		 No Yes
Notification when blog
shared on Google+		 No Yes
Affected yesteryear changing
blog URL		 No Yes

Are you lot going to purpose Google+ Comments on your blog? 

Check out my video tutorial on how to deal Google+ Comments on your Blogger blog:


 If you'd similar to a greater extent than details, including how to deal your Google+ Comments, read on!

How to enable Google+ Comments on your Blogger Blog

If you lot switch from Blogger Comments to Google+ Comments, the erstwhile Blogger Comments volition proceed to display on your weblog posts.


1. Sign inward to Blogger (www.blogger.com)

2. Set your Google+ Profile every bit the profile for your Blogger account

3. Open your Blogger Settings > Posts, comments, together with sharing

4. Under Google+ Comments set Use Google+ Comments on this blog? to Yes

 5. Click the orange Save settings button at piece of occupation yesteryear right

If you lot are unable to enable Google+ Comments:

Google+ Comment options for commenters: private comments, Google+ posting, disabling replies

When you lot convey Google+ Comments enabled, commenters convey several options for their posts.

Post visibility:

 Commenters tin select whether to brand their comment Public or private. If they desire the comment to live on private, they tin share alongside specific Google+ Circles or alongside individuals.

 Currently the Classic Google+ post interface is even together with then inward use, which allows posts to live on shared alongside Extended Circles or Your Circles.
Share to Google+:

Blog post comments tin live on shared to Google+ every bit a regular Google+ post yesteryear ticking the Also part to Google+ option below the comment box.
Disable Replies:

 Google+ Comments are Google+ posts, together with then you lot can set who tin reply to your posts inward your Google+ Settings.

You tin also edit your ain comments to disable replies. Click the v to the correct of your posted comment for options together with click Disable replies.

Notifications of novel Google+ Comments on your Blogger Blog

You should live on notified of novel Google+ Comments posted on your Blogger weblog inward iii places: email, Google+ together with the One Google Bar notification bell.

Notifications yesteryear email

 You should live on sent an electronic mail notification of novel comments to the electronic mail address where you lot have other Google+ notifications.

The electronic mail volition live on from Google+ alongside the plain of written report trace New activeness on your weblog post. 

 Click the View Activity button to sentiment the post together with comment.

If you lot are non receiving electronic mail notifications, cheque your Google+ Settings.

Under Notifications > Email enable:
Shares or comments on your content across the spider web (for example, your YouTube videos or your blog)

Notifications on Google+

 You should come across a notification of novel weblog comments inward your Google+ Notifications (plus.google.com/notifications).


Notifications nether the Bell on the Google Bar

 Google+ notifications tin also live on accessed yesteryear clicking the bell icon on the Google Bar.


Notification of weblog post shares on Google+

 Shares of your weblog post on Google+ volition also look every bit comments, together with you lot volition live on notified of those shares every bit well.

Viewing Google+ Comments on your Blog

You tin variety together with filter the Google+ Comments on weblog posts.

  • Switch betwixt All Comments together with comments alone from People inward your Circles
  • Sort the comments yesteryear Newest First or Top Comments
Note that you lot volition not come across whatever comments that were shared alongside a Circle you lot are non a fellow member of.
You volition also not see comments yesteryear anyone you lot convey blocked on Google+ or other Google products.

Moderate Google+ Comments

To moderate comments on your blog:

1. Click on the comment notification or open the weblog post together with detect the comment.

2. Click the v menu icon to the correct of the comment

3. Select Remove, Report spam or abuse, or Mute (to halt getting notifications for the comment replies)

Note that you lot cannot moderate Google+ Comments from within your Blogger account, together with at that spot is no comment list.

Limitations of the Google+ Comment System

As mentioned above, at that spot are roughly limitations to the Google+ Comment organisation that you lot should consider earlier enabling Google+ Comments:
  • Commenters must convey a Google+ Profile.
  • You volition non come across comments if they are shared alongside a Circle that you lot are non a fellow member of
  • You volition non come across comments posted yesteryear someone you lot convey blocked (or has blocked you) when signed into your Google account. You tin come across those comments when signed out, but you lot won't live on able to moderate them.
  • Comment moderation is alone available on the weblog posts themselves, non inward your Blogger account. That way at that spot is no listing of comments on your posts inward your Blogger account.
  • Comments are linked your weblog post URL. That way if you lot modify the weblog post link or larn a custom domain for your blog, the comments volition disappear from your blog.
If you lot are active on Google+ together with your weblog readers are too, Google+ may live on ideal for you.

If your readership includes a lot of people who are non on Google+, it's likely improve to purpose the Blogger comment system.

Also, if you lot convey concerns nigh comments appearing on your weblog that you lot powerfulness detect hard to moderate, the Blogger comment organisation offers to a greater extent than moderation tools.

More information:

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 authorities notation on terminology:

A Comment on your Blogger weblog is the same every bit a Post on Google+.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Reply to a comment on your Blogger weblog is the same every bit a Comment on a Google+ post.

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