How do you 'Follow my blog with Bloglovin'? - solution!

How do you add the 'follow me with Bloglovin' icon to my blog?

I wasn't able to put the 'follow me with Bloglovin' icon on my blog.  I had searched and couldn't find out how to do it.  I was looking at all the options I had in my blog settings.  Then I discovered that the problem was that I hadn't 'claimed' my blog into Bloglovin.  I started searching on my daily Bloglovin feed and found the answer.

First I had to claim my blog.  This created a link which I had to post into a new post header - this post.

Now that my blog was claimed,  I could put the icon in to allow followers via Bloglovin - the link sent by Bloglovin had to be added to my 'add gadget' tool via the third party,  HTML option.
And hey presto!  A link.

I chose a simple icon,  though there were more complex choices such as the Eiffel Tower.

I thought I could then possibly delete this post. However, some people had already 'read' it - a blank post.  So I decided this morning to put a brief explanation as to why it's here. Other people might find it helpful. If people search,  as I did,  they may come up with this post which could be helpful to them.

In my case,  I have two separate email addresses and usually use one to follow blogs etc but my Google account,  Blogger etc use the other. So I have a number of duplicate profiles. I will get around to sorting this out. I have too many to feel I want to tackle it at present. I had wondered why I was notified about some posts but not others, while an another group was notified twice. A mess! I believe I had followed some blogs using more than one profile.

I might now receive duplicate Bloglovin notifications. I'll gradually try to sort it rather than having a big splurge.