Is this thing on?

This turns out to be a treatise on how to experiment and find the way to make something work. Welcome to my diagnosis process.

So, I go and connect my new Blogger blog here to Klout. Seems pretty easy: I click Connect, it bumps me to my Google Accounts page asking to confirm. I confirm, and the Blogger icon now lights up under my name.

You do know that you can get to any of my connected networks in Klout by clicking the network icon under my name, right? Plus, I do so love the Windows 7 Snipping tool. :) Okay, tangent over.

Thing is, you click on that Blogger icon and get a fail page:

I click the link, it informs me that I'm using my Google profile, and I should change it there. Again with handy links, but now, I'm suddenly editing my Google+ profile. I go to the Gear > Settings > Profile and Privacy > Sign into Dashboard, log in, scroll down to Blogger, and "Edit Blogger Profile".

Guess where that takes me?

Yep, step 3 again. Experiment time.  I delve back into the Profile FAQ and revert to just a Blogger profile. I unlink, relink in Klout and voila, my blogs appear! Along with an unfinished profile. Well. We don't want that!  So I return once again to the Profile FAQ, connect my Blogger to my Google+, and hit the trigger.  Not only do I get the profile filled in, but I also get a page prompting me to add my blogs to my Google+ profile page as "Contributor to:" ... Aha! The Blogger icon in Klout brings me to my Google+ profile, where the blogs are listed. (Which in hindsight is totally superfluous, but I suppose at one time, Blogger was not Google, so there you go.)

So, the trick is to add your blogs to your Google+ page. "How do you do that? That 'Add custom link' doesn't tell me squat." Here's a final snippet so you can see what a completed link looks like:

By the way, that X doesn't quit the editing for that link, that deletes it. 

Anyhow, it would be nice if the runaround gets fixed, a note that says, "Hey dummy, just add your blog here!" go into the Google+ blog area, or a simple checkmark option in the Blog settings to "add this to my Google+ profile". 

Eh, they're visible now. Is this thing on?

BoB