Today there are many blogging platforms you can use to build your blog which is something that we can share our ideas and media like photos and videos, with one or more people. There are some free platforms as well as premium platforms. Blogger is one of a free platform which we can use with a free subdomain to main domain which is blogspot.com . You can have any name/word(s) as this subdomain and that will be your website or blog address.
As an example daytodaylifestuff.blogspot.com.
so here DayToDayLifeStuff acts as a subdomain of blogspot.com.
Then, you also need a blog. right? so here's how your blog creates in step by step with blogger.
1. Create an Account
Probably some of you might say this is starting in very basic but I thought to give this part to you because some of you might not know about this. So first you should have a google account to create this blog and if you have one you can use it or currently if you don't have one, first Go to google.com and then click on "sign in" on upper right corner and It will take you to a page which you can see a link to Create your Google account.
After that when you do have a google account and then Go to Blogger site to create your blog or you can use Blogspot, but eventually you will redirect to blogger. and here you can confirm your profile which you like to use with your blog so they give two options for you. You can select one of any profile as you wish to continue. Google + profile has benefits from Google + as well. or If you don't need a Google+ profile you can go with a Blogger profile.
2. Create your blog
After you selected your profile, you will be redirected to this page.(something like this, of course, with your name ;) )
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| Create your blog |
From here, you can begin to create your blogger blog. Click on "New Blog" button in the left side. Then you will get this box,
From this box, you can add a Title for your blog, Address which is going to be your website URL / link and a Template which is how your blog is going to look like. All these steps are temporary and you can change anything later on. but make sure to select at least a blog address which suits you properly in this step, because unless someone can get your address. Then you will be unable to use that again. An address is like a username. one blog can have only one address which is literally like for a house. You got the idea. ;) If your address is already selected by someone, it will not be available to you. so you have to select another address until one address is available to you.
And then pick a template, you can change it later.
After, all suit you click on Create blog! button. It will take you to your blog dashboard.
3. Create your blog posts
Then you need to do is simply click New Post button to create your blog new blog posts or you can go to Posts to create your first new post.
Once you click Posts you will get a page like this:
By clicking the link "Create a new post" you can write your post. Then you will get a page to write your blog post. (Once you published your posts this is the place where you can see your all posts.)
Inside a post
There are 6 sections in the left side
- Labels section which you can add labels according to your post
- Schedule section which you can schedule posts in any day, anytime you need
- Links section you can change your post link If you want to.
- Location - you can simply add your location
- Search Description - a description which shows in search engines with your post link.
- Options - allow, show and hide comments. compose mode and line break changes
There are buttons to Publish, save, preview and close your post. what they do is literally what the buttons say. Blogger will draft your post automatically while you are writing your post but just remember to save your post before you close the post, just to make sure all saved correctly.
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| Example post |
Preview your blog posts before publish.
If all seems ok, then publish your post. In posts section, you can see all posts you created.
Dashboard Menu Sections
- Overview
There you can see the overview of your blog posts' page views, updates, news from blogger, blogger guide and recently noted blogs.
- Posts
You can see all your published, drafted and scheduled posts here. You can view, edit, delete, share or change your labels from here.
- Pages
This section is used to create extra pages for your blog. You can create a page by clicking New page button in this section. Pages look like posts, but these are different from blog posts because they will not act like a post. and you can't add labels to pages. You have to add pages as separate links or pages widget to show them in your blog.
- Google+
From this section, you can share your posts with google+ page or google + profile. If you have checked "Automatically share after posting", after you publish your posts, it will automatically post to your google+ page or profile as well. or you can select prompt share. and also you can set Google+ comments from here to your blog. You just need to do is just check that box. It's that simple. :)
- Stats
With this section, you can check your blog page views, traffic sources, and audience. You can check from which country visitors have come to your blog and to which posts and so on. you got the idea. :)
- Earnings
Do you know that you can earn money from your blog? yes, You can. so this is the section for that but you may need to have your own domain and some traffic. You can add your domain to your blog and join with Google AdSense program and make some extra money with your blog while having fun. Isn't it great? and most of all it's completely free. You don't need to pay for adsense. You just need is to join with them and then, after they approve your proposal, they will give you ads to display in your blog. Learn more about Adsense.
- Campaigns
This is another google program calls Google Adwords which can help your blog to get more traffic. You can have paid ads for your blog, but you need to pay is only when someone clicks your ad and visits to your blog.
- Layout
You can make changes to gadgets in your blog from this section. also, you can rearrange them too.
- Template
Customize and make changes to your template or even you can change your template to another as your desire.
- Settings
You can change your blog settings like blog address, Title, and description change, Add remove blog authors, comment changes, Language changes and more.
I hope this will help you to create your new blog with blogger. Let me know if you have any questions and Contact me if you need any help.
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