How to Get a Free Blog
Luckily for you, sites like Blogger.com have made it easy to set-up and make posts on a blog. In this newsletter, we will go over everything from signing up for a blog on Blogger.com to choosing a template (look) to finally making a first post.
What is Blogger.com?
Simply put, Blogger.com is a site that hosts blogs for free. This makes it even easier for you to have a blog because there is no need to set up a web site and host the blog yourself. All you have to do on Blogger.com, once you’ve signed up, is login to your blog, write a blog post and click submit. It‘s that simple.
What will my web address be on Blogger.com?
Your web address will be http://yourname.blogspot.com. One thing that people dislike about Blogger and other free blog sites is that they don’t have as great of a freedom in choosing a name. You are limited to choosing only what is available. So if you’re looking for http://yankeesfan.blogspot.com, you probably won’t be able to find that.
Signing up for a blog on Blogger
The first thing you’ll do is go to blogger.com. Next, you’ll scroll down the page and click on the button labeled “Create Your Blog Now”.
You will then be taken to a page where you will enter an email address (used to log into your blog), a password, and a word verification. You’ll also have to check “I Accept Terms of Service”. Click continue.
Next, you will be taken to a page where you will choose the blog title, blog address, and another word verification (which is done to prevent auto-signups). When you type in your blog address, you can click a link that says “check availability”. This will tell you whether or not the desired name is available. If the first name you wish to have is not available, keep typing in different variations of the name until you find one that is available.
After you have put in all the information, click “Continue”.
Choosing a Template
After you click “Continue”, you’ll be asked to choose a template. The template can be changed at any time after you sign-up for the blog, so you don’t have to choose an “official” template now.
If you scroll down, you’ll see a variety of different templates.
Click on the one that you like best and then click “Continue”.
Your First Blog Post
After you’ve chosen a template, you’ll see that your blog has been created and that there is a button to “Start Posting”. Click that button.
You’ll be taken to a page that is similar to the posting page at a message board. There is a “Title” field, where you can put in the title of this particular blog posting. Then there is a bigger field, which is the body of your post. Type all you want in this “Body” field, as there is no limit.
Note that there are options above the field to bold, italicize, underline or spell check the text. There is also the option of changing the size and color of the text, plus the ability to add bullet points, numbered lists and even pictures. For now, you’ll just do a simple “Welcome” post.
In the “Title” field, type “Welcome!” In the “Body” field, type your message. You could start with a simple introduction, talking about yourself and the purpose of the blog. When you’re done typing the message, click the “Publish” button. It is worth noting that you can choose to save the post as a draft, if you want to go back and later finish the post.
After you’ve clicked “Publish”, you’ll see that your blog has been published successfully. Click the “View Blog” link to view the results of your work. You’ll now see your post.
Logging into Blogger after the first post
You’ll go to Blogger.com and click on the “Old Blogger” link at the top right of the page. Type in the email address and password that you signed up with. You’ll be taken to the “Dashboard” of your blog. If you want to enter a new post on your blog, click “New Post”. Then follow the instructions mentioned in the previous section. Or if you want to edit the template, add/edit elements to your page, you’ll click “Settings” and then “Template”.
That’s all there is to it. Blogs, whether they are hosted at blogger.com or another free blog site, are incredibly useful and fun.
Blogger makes setting up and running a blog very easy for those who have never done it before. So what are you waiting for? Sign-up for a free blog at Blogger.com today and enjoy posting!
3 Reasons Why Wordpress is the Best Blogging Tool
WordPress is a free tool which allows anyone for writing online and to publish a wordpress software-based blog free of charge and reachable to every single person. The most important 3 features that Blogger doesn’t support.1. A Pinging feature is provided to you by which wordpress automatically pings all the RSS and blog feed directories each time you update or make a new post. It’s a very great feature if you want your blog to get a lot of traffic right away. It is the quickest way to develop backlinks to your blog automatically.If you build a regular site, think how long it will get to index it in the search engines as well as get backlinks to improve your listings, and then start getting traffic. A tool like Wordpress can do all that “grunge” work for you very easily.2. Wordpress Categories are the most effective way to improve the structure of your site for both human visitors and for the search engines bot.Let’s assume the topic of your website is Wallpapers. You could create a Category for Car wallpapers, one for Nature wallpapers, and one for Cool wallpapers. When you add a posts to your blog, you can select which of your categories does the post belongs to. Now your blog will archive your past posts not only by their month and date same as Blogger does. But also by the Category.So when you have a guests on your blog who is particularly interested in Car wallpapers, is will be easy for them to find all your posts on car wallpapers. Use of the categories can makes it very easy and will save valuable time of your visitors.Categories are very search engine friendly, when you use categories in your blog, there is a link on every one of your pages to your categories. By using the Category feature, you will ultimately have hundreds of pages on your site with links to car wallpapers, nature wallpapers and cool wallpapers. All of those backlinks to those keywords can help you to get higher in search engine rankings.3. You can easily create an RSS feed for each of your categories. It means every time you post a new article to your blog, it will ping the Blog / RSS directories for every feed!Think that if you put up a new page on a regular website and even if the search engines find your new page right away, it might take a month or two before it actually gets indexed and starts getting traffic. It might be a long time before it enjoys a first page position for its keywords.It’s almost superb how easily you could do all this with a well-organized blogging tool like Wordpress!
