Critical Comments & Backlinks Settings

Certain settings on your blogs are hyper-critical! You must set them correctly for class and community participation, especially for commenting and backlinking. So as soon as you finish reading this post, please follow the steps below, and double-check your settings for comments and backlinks.

1. Click on the button ("B," for Blogger) in the top left corner of your Blogger screen.
2. Find and click on the "Settings" link for you blog.
3. Click on the "Comments" tab.
4. Confirm the settings shown in the picture of the comments settings screen (pab's potpourri, above).
   
5. Then view one of your blog posts to make sure that the "n Comments" and "Links to this Posts" links show up at the end of the post, like this: .
6. If those links don't appear, reload the page by clicking this button, , in the Firefox, Navigation Toolbar.
   
7. If you still don't see those links at the end of your post, then ask an assistant or me for help fine-tuning "Post Options" in edit mode.

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