First go to Settings / General:

Then In Blog Title: Enter the keyword your site is targetting, so in my case I would enter Test My Blog or some variation of that phrase, extra words are okay.

Then in Tag Line: Enter a few words what your site is about, try to get your keyword phrase in there i.e. A site to test my blog

Next Go To Settings / Privacy:

Make sure you have the button that says this selected:

I would like my blog to be visible to everyone, including search engines (like Google, Sphere, Technorati) and archivers

Next Go To Settings / Writing:

Make sure this url: http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ is in the Update Services box at the bottom of the page.

Next Go To Settings / Reading:

Next make sure you’re only showing 3 posts under this section, where it says : Blog pages show at most: enter 3, this is because if you put Adsense in each post the most you’re allowed to have is 3 ad blocks per page, this will prevent you from breaking the rules.

Note: I had to change it to show 2 blog posts only as I made the main keyword a Sticky Post, it then show 2 additional posts, it shows full posts but I’d like to have the two additional as excerpts but haven’t figured that out yet!

The Reading section is also where you go if you want to set your front page as a Static page if you’re using the page set up,