How To: Start a Free Blog
Definition of a Blog:
Online journal where an individual, group, or corporation presents a record of activities, thoughts, or beliefs. Some blogs operate mainly as news filters, collecting various online sources and adding short comments and internet links. Other blogs concentrate on presenting original material.
How to Start a Free Blog at Blogger.com:
Starting your own very first blog is a lot easier than you might think. Websites like blogger.com by Google make it very easy for anyone to start their own blog for free and even start earning money right away.
To get started you will need to follow these five steps:
Step 1: Head on over to blogger.com and create an account or use your existing Google Account login information.
Step 2: Once you have created your account it’s time to start building your blog. Here you will need to pick a title for your blog.
Step 3: Once you pick your title it is important to pick the appropriate blog address (example.blogspot.com). Keep in mind that a search engine friendly url and title combination will help generate more traffic for you in the future.
Step 4: This is were your creativity and personality comes out. Picking the right design to suit you and the theme of your new blog is important. Blogger provides you with many different templates to help get you started.
Step 5: Now you can adjust your setting, design, and placement of different gadgets in your template. Once you have your blog the way you like it you can start blogging and sharing your contenting via social media.
Learn how to monetize your new blog.
Features from Blogger
List of Blogger.com Features:
Customize your design
The Blogger Template Designer offers many templates, making it simple for you to create a professional-looking blog. In addition, the Template Designer lets you customize your template. Choose from hundreds of background images, tens of flexible layouts, and rearrange widgets through a drag and drop interface. Add gadgets such as slideshows, user polls, or even AdSense ads. Changing fonts and colors is easy too. And if that’s not enough control, you can even edit your blog’s CSS and HTML.
Publishing your voice is easy and free
Creating your blog with Blogger takes just a few easy steps. In a matter of minutes you can start posting text, photos, videos, and more to your blog. Post as often as you want; it’s free. Check out this article on How to get started or watch the How to create a blog with Blogger video.
Simple-to-use interface
Follow a few basic steps to start posting to your blog. Our simple-to-use interface lets you change fonts, bold or italicize your text, adjust text color and alignment, and more. As you compose each new blog post, Blogger saves it automatically, without interrupting your typing. There’s also an easy-to-use spell-check feature and a simple way to add labels to your posts. In addition, Blogger includes an HTML editor that lets you fully customize the look and feel of your posts.
Your free website
When you create your blog, you can host it for free on Blog*Spot. Just choose an available URL and you’re ready to go. If you change your mind and want a different URL later, making the change is easy. Blogger also includes a custom domain option; you can have a domain name, like example.com, and we’ll still host your blog there, giving you all of Blogger’s great features.
Add photos and videos to your post
You can easily add a photo to your blog post by clicking on the image icon in the post editor toolbar. Your photos are then hosted in your free Picasa Web Albums account, where you can order prints and organize photos into albums. Adding a video to your post is just as easy; just click on the film-strip icon on the post editor toolbar to get started. Videos uploaded through Blogger are hosted onGoogle Video.
More Features
Earn money
With Blogger, you can earn money just by posting high quality original content on your favorite topics. Blogger has a dedicated Monetize tab that allows you to easily place AdSense ads on your blog. Also, through Blogger’s Amazon Associates program, you can search Amazon’s product catalog and add links to products you recommend that earn you commission when your readers buy these products.
Develop your community
Let your readers follow your blog by adding the Followers gadget to your layout. With this gadget, your readers can click the “Follow This Blog” link to add your blog to their Blogger Dashboard and Google Reader account. They also have the option to add their image and profile to your blog to tell the world that they’re a fan.
Feedback from your readers
It’s easy for readers to leave comments on any of your blog posts, giving you useful, timely feedback. They can leave comments right below the post, in a pop-up window, or on a separate page. You can also use Reactions to let your readers quickly provide feedback with just one click.
New post notifications
Your readers can choose to subscribe to your blog’s feeds, so they’re notified whenever you publish a new blog post. You can also customize what’s shared in your blog’s feed, and set up your blog to email new posts automatically to specific email addresses or mailing lists.
One simple ID
Because you can login to Blogger with your Google Account — which also gives you access to Gmail, iGoogle, orkut, etc. — you have one less username and password to remember. Your blog’s address can also be used as an OpenID to give you a single digital identity across the web. Since your blog can accept comments from OpenID users in addition to registered Blogger members, it’ll be easier for all your readers to leave feedback and participate in your conversations.
Languages of the world
Blogger is currently available in 41 languages including English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian speakers can use Blogger with Right-to-Left display and formatting. And transliteration is available for five Indic languages.
Advanced Features
Pages
With Blogger’s Pages feature, you can create new pages that are linked from your blog. For example, you can create an “About This Blog” or a “Contact Me” page, in a similar way you write a new blog post, and provide links to those pages as tabs at the top of your blog or in the sidebar.
Posting on the go
Blogger has many additional ways for you to post to your blog. You can post to your blog from your mobile phone or through a secret Mail-to-Blogger email address. Or use the Blogger Post Gadgetto edit and publish posts directly from your custom iGoogle homepage. With these options, it’s easy to post to your blog whenever you want, from wherever you may be.
Group blogging
With Blogger, it’s easy to create a team blog, allowing multiple bloggers to contribute to a single blog. You select which team members have administrative authority and those who are just authors. You can also choose to make your blog private and restrict who can view it. This puts you in full control of your blog.
Third-party applications
You can choose among a host of third-party applications that integrate with Blogger to make it even easier for you to blog. Be sure to check out code.blogger.com if you’re a developer and want to create your own great app.
Even more features…
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Saturday, January 1, 2011
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