how to start a blog on blogger.com

What is a Blog?

Definition of blog

A blog is an online journal or informational website displaying information in the reverse chronological order, with the latest posts appearing first. It is a platform where a writer or even a group of writers share their views on an individual subject.

What is the purpose of a blog?

There are many reasons to start a blog for personal use and only a handful of strong ones for business blogging. Blogging for business, projects, or anything else that might bring you money has a very straightforward purpose – to rank your website higher in Google SERPs, a.k.a. increase your visibility.

As a business, you rely on consumers to keep buying your products and services. As a new business, you rely on blogging to help you get to these consumers and grab their attention. Without blogging, your website would remain invisible, whereas running a blog makes you searchable and competitive.

So, the main purpose of a blog is to connect you to the relevant audience. Another one is to boost your traffic and send quality leads to your website.

The more frequent and better your blog posts are, the higher the chances for your website to get discovered and visited by your target audience. Which means, a blog is an effective lead generation tool. Add a great call to action (CTA), and it will convert your website traffic into high-quality leads. But a blog also allows you to showcase your authority and build a brand.

When you use your niche knowledge for creating informative and engaging posts, it builds trust with your audience. Great blogging makes your business looks more credible, which is especially important if your brand is still young and fairly unknown. It ensures presence and authority at the same time.

  #STEPS TO START A BLOG 

STEP 1- select the perfect niche of the blog

STEP 2- choose a proper name for the blog and create it.

STEP 3 - select the proper theme for the blog.

STEP 4- start writing content according to the niche of the blog.

STEP 5 - pick a domain name [optional]

STEP 6 - promote your blog after publishing.

STEP 7 - enable your adsence [after you are elegible]

STEP 8 - make money by blogging.

Why you should create a blog and join the blogging community

So below, I’m going to outline exactly what you need to do to get started and set up your own personal blog. Before we dive in though, I really want to talk about WHY you should build a blog.

Note: If you already have a solid idea of the whys, then skip this and go right ahead with the guide.

1. Blogging has quickly become one of the most popular ways of communicating and spreading information and news. There are literally millions of blogs online (don’t worry, you can make yours stand out and get noticed!).
2. It’s a great way to express yourself and also a fantastic way to share information with others.
3. You become a better person and a better writer.
4. The best reason? You can make money doing it!

I bet you already knew all of that, but it’s nice to be reminded.

why blogger is the best?

  Because blogger.com is a product of Google itself and as we know Google is the most trusted search engine. Other blogging website is not as simple as blogger.com and other website will ask you to pay some or the other charges or fee but in this website you can earn without investing any kind of money all you have to be is patient and give some time to your blog and post on daily bases so that it will give you genuine result and passive income without investing zero rupees.

ADVANTAGES TO START BLOG ON BLOGGER.COM

• Starting a blog with Google Blogspot is very easy, and you don’t need any professional skill to operate your blog.
• Google owns the platform, so you have that trust and credibility.
• Blogger is free for all, and they never ask for a penny.
• Though there are many of free blogging platforms available on the web (like WordPress, Weebly, Wix, Tumblr, and others), Blogger.com is the winner of all of them when it comes to giving you freedom and the features offered.
• You can set up your custom domain there instated of free .blogspot.com subdomain.
• You can Configure a free SSL Certificate for your blog (by simply turning on HTTPS). Now blogger offers HTTPS version of both type of sites, so no matter if you’re using their .blogspot sub-domain or your custom domain.
• They provide free simple and responsive templates and also allow you to upload your own theme. In the web lots of free and premium blogger template available, so you can install them and customize as you want.
• Some cool features like template editor, template designer, and layout editor, are very advantageous. With the help of the template editor, you edit the code of your theme and can customize it as you like. Template Designer used to design the essential elements of your blog and to add custom CSS to your blog. Layout editor helps to place various widgets at different locations on your blog by just dragging and dropping.
• Blog post publishing and management system are very easy to use.
• The communication system is good also. You can use its default comment system or can set up Facebook, Disqus, Google Plus Comments easily.
• Blogger post editor provides all essential tools to write an excellent blog post. It allows you to edit or modify your article, search description, labels, location, custom permalink, custom robots tags, image alt tag, blog post scheduling, errors, and redirections, etc.
• You can monetize your site with Google AdSense and other programs like affiliate marketing easily unlike other platforms.
• Like other CMS (Content management system), Google blogger also lets you take backup your data. So, if something wrong happens with your site, then you can restore it with your backup.
• Also later, if you wish to move on other platforms (like WordPress, Wix, Weebly) then by using their plugins, you can easily switch to them without losing anything.

So, I hope now you can understand, why starting a blog on Blogger.com is beneficial for you.

OK, now let’s see how you can start your blog with blogger using our step-by-step guide below.

STEPS TO OPTIMIZE BLOGGER BLOG

In your blog dashboard left side panel you can see the “Setting” option. Now click there to edit some stuff.

Add discription to your blog

Adding a description on your blogger blog is very necessary, it helps to describe your reader and search engines that what is your blog about. You can set it by selecting the “basic” settings option under the main settings panel.

Steps to edit post, comments etc 

This section will help you to optimize your blog homepage, and you can set up commenting rules for your blog readers. These settings are pretty self-explanatory, and if you have any difficulty to understand, then you can click on the help symbol (question mark symbol) to get more details about it.

Edit and modify Blogger Search Preference Settings to Optimize your Blog SEO

In this section, you can optimize your blog for search engines. With the help of these setups, you can able to get better ranking in search engine.

Edit meta tags: A meta tag is a brief and concise summary of your blog or website. It supposes to install after the title of the page. The user of a search engine focuses on the description of the post after reading the title of the post. So, Keep in mind that it is very much necessary that your meta description must be related to what you have written in your blog. Your meta tag description must be written within 150 characters.

Custom page not found: When someone lands on your site through a URL that no longer exists, you can set a message to them that the page doesn’t exist. You can set any custom text or HTML message instructing them what to do next.

Custom redirects: Using this feature you can redirect your full-length permalinks to a shorter one and also you can redirect your broken links to your site. Bloggers custom redirects only support redirection within the same blog URL, so this isn’t suitable if you’ve changed your blog domain name.

Crawlers and indexing: These features are imperative because doing proper setup there, a chance to get better ranking in search engine and incorrect configuration can harm your SERP(Search engine ranking position) or you may lose your search engine visibility. So stay away from this part, if you are not expert.

However, if you are keen to optimize your robots.txt and Custom robots header tags, then you can read the post below.

You just finished essential SEO setups for your blogger blog. Now it’s time to customize your blog.

How to Customize your blogger blog?

In your blog dashboard left panel section, you can see “Theme” and “Layout” option. There you can do your all customization stuff like new template installation or modification, edit or remove blogger widgets, logo setup, text color, and style edit and many more.

Customization allowed in blogger theme and Layout Section

• You can Choose a Template from its available templates collection, or you can upload your own theme.
• Also, you can take backup or restore your blog template anytime by clicking on the Backup/Restore button on the top right side of the Theme dashboard.
• By clicking on Customize button, a new template editor will open where you can able to make some changes such as changing the background, changing font design and colors, adding Custom CSS, selecting the layout, etc.
• You can Edit HTML of the template.
• You can choose a Mobile Template for your site.
• In the Layout section, you can manage your blog layout by simple drag and drop process.
• You can see the multiple locations in the Layout Editor where you can add various widgets also.
• In the layout section, you can edit Favicon, blog header, footer, sidebar, etc.
• You can use the Blogger Teme Designer to change the layout widths and other settings.

So, I hope you are done finishing your blog setup and customization. Now it’s time to publish some post and pages that drive traffic to your blog.

How to Publish your article on blogger blog

Once you are ready to publish your first article(post), you need to go to “Posts” tab from your blog dashboard and then click on “New Post” or “Create a New Post” link to write your content.

Now you can see blogger post editor. Here’s how the blog post editor screen looks like –

Now get ready to write an article in a proper format at Compose section. The blogger post editor is similar to the MS Office or Google doc, so it’s very easy working with.

After finishing your article writing chose a suitable post title for it and inserted it on post title area. You can make your article more attractive by adding Headings, Sub-Headings, images, videos, etc. Now when all you are done click on ‘PUBLISH’ button to see your Blog Post live.C

ongratulation for your first post! Now you’re ready foging.

Keep the process going on and start publishing more contents on your blogger blog. After posting some good stories(or articles), you can apply for Google Adsense approval, or you can try for any other advertising platform. This way you to earn money from your free blogger blog.

Here are a few more things I suggest you to consider when you are running a free blog on blogger.com

• Use a premium blogger theme on your blog which will make your blog more attractive by its design.
• Always try to publish original content and if using someone’s speech then don’t forget to credit back to them.
• Add some pages on your blog like – About, Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, Disclaimer, Contact Us, etc
• Buy a domain and then setup it for your blogger blog.
• Create social profiles for your blogger blog on facebook, twitter, youtube, and other platforms.
• You can set up an SSL Certificate for your blog on Blogspot(Google provide free SSL certificates for all site, and you can easily configure it from your blogger dashboard).

So, this is my complete guide on how to create a blog on blogger. If you have any questions or doubts in mind, don’t hesitate to let me know by commenting below.

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