How to claim your blog on Bloglovin (Blogger)

Today I'm back which another blogging tutorial: How to claim your blog on Bloglovin. Bloglovin is my favourite platform to use for following blogs but it's also the platform where my blog has the most followers. It can hugely benefit your blog to add it to Bloglovin because there are so many people who use it as their main way to keep track of all the blogs they read. So here is a quick, easy, step by step tutorial to show you how to add and claim your blog in Bloglovin. 

So before you can even add your blog to Bloglovin, you need to have an account. There are some of you who might already have an account just for following blogs that you can use, but if you don't, you need to create one (don't worry it's free). This is really simple. You just go to Bloglovin's site, and really easily sign up by entering your name, email address and new password for your profile. 

Step 1: Add your blog to Bloglovin

Once you are logged into your account, click on the search bar. A few things will come up automatically like suggested tags, but there should also be an option to 'Add blog'. If for some reason that isn't coming up, you can also click the icon with your profile picture on it and go to settings where there is a button to claim your blog.

How do I add tags to my blog on Bloglovin?

So fairly recently enough, Bloglovin started adding tags to blogs to make your blog easier to find. These are different from your blog post tags and are a number of specific tags that relate to your overall blog. I was pretty happy with this change because now people would be able to find my blog a little bit easier.

The only thing was, I noticed that some blogs had several different tags and my blog only had one. People like Zoella had up to 10 tags including Food, Beauty, DIY, Fashion and Lifestyle, whereas my blog just had the tag Beauty. Then I noticed that some other blogs didn't have any tags at all.

So how do I add more tags to my blog? I tried editing my blog info and settings but there didn't seem to be any way to add more blog tags. Then I googled it and was somehow given the information to add a blog to Bloglovin instead of how to add more blog tags. Then I came across the reason why some people had loads of blog tags and others had none. This is what I found coming from Bloglovin themselves under the heading What Determines Which Tags Are Featured In My Blog Profile?:

"The tags for your profile are automatically generated by how your followers have categorized your blog. As you gain more followers, the more tags that will display and the more accurate they will be. There is not a way to manually add or remove tags at this time." 

So that is the reason; your blog tags all depend on your follower count. That is why Zoella with over 300,000 followers has ten different blog tags, my blog with 1600 followers has only one, and people with less than 300 followers seem to have none. There is no way yet for us to manually add our own blog tags so basically, it is just another motivation to grow our blog followings. Although it wasn't the best answer to find, I am glad that I finally know why some people have more tags than others.

So I hoped this blog post helped if any of you were wondering why you didn't have as many blog tags as someone else. If you enjoyed it or found it helpful then please love it on Bloglovin or give it a +1 on Google Plus. I hope you are having a great day and I'll talk to you soon.

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