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You can set your blog up so that no posts are shown on the main screen - provided you have used some of the other "home page" approaches to give readers other ways of getting to your content. Previously I've explained how to only show one post on the main page of your blog . But some people who want to give their blog a home page  go further than that, and don't show any posts on the main screen at all.   (Remember, the main screen is where people who navigate to your blog, rather than to posts within it, go.) This sounds like a strange thing to do - after all, blogs are about posts. But actually it's fine, provided you use some other tools to let readers move around the blog .  I've made a 150+ page blog this way, and it works very nicely because I have organised the information and used some index-pages (containing lists of bus-routes, suburbs, maps etc) with tables  that link to many other posts. How to show no (ie zero, 0) posts on the main screen Some pe...

This article explains the problems with getting valid, SEO-friendly links to images that are in Google Photos - and shows a way of doing this using Google products.   Previously I've explained how to get a URL for a picture stored in Google Photos - and the difference between Photo's "shareable links" and real photo URLs. The sort of link you get with this procedure looks like this: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0SZ4IMsIgfxygdi1Uo3TnnVggopqr3USc1SYhY3i_D8sIi_MpMXB4WaWZw1hLS9gcsIQz_alpi99spBwYmBziLSf1MW_GGVxFdnD6htIAx_auGYZLNTJNES-gbLD2SvDVJA03oiV527-y/w1006-h566-no/ There are some issues with using URLs (aka web-addresses) obtained like this: They aren't recognised as valid image file links by many online tools which ask for the URL for an image (eg phpBB, Blogger - and many others) Sometimes they stop working (I've not been able to track down exactly when, but there are reports around the internet from people who say that links ...