Blogger is a Very big platform where you can create your blog for free without a single penny. There are many other sites where you can create blogs for example Weebly ,Wordpress, Posterous, Tumblr but blogger is best of them. Blogger is the part of Google.
Its very easy to create a blog in this platform and your blog is completely in your hands, its up to you how you design your blog, what type of content you keep in your blog, what type of ads you place in your blog etc. you can do what ever you like. Blogging is not only about sharing ideas, tips, products or anything else but it is also a very simple way of earning money online. Blogger has its own app for IPhone and Android with which you can post your articles from anywhere anytime with your hands.
Features of blogger:
- There are many important features which blogger provides... The 1st feature is overview with overview feature you can see latest updates of your blog such as comments, today page views, total posts, followers and a graph which shows your traffic statisticss.
- The second one is post feature where you can see how many posts are in drafts or published. You can edit them here.
- After posts other option is comments which shows you how many comments you have approved to show and how many are spam etc.
- The fourth is Google+ where you can manage where to share your updates whether on your on profile or any page you created on Google+.
- After Google+ there is another option of stats which describes your blog's traffic briefly. It shows today's traffic, yesterday's traffic, Last month page views, all the time traffic, countries of visitors, the pages they have visited and traffic sources.
- Other option is earnings, if you have a Google AdSense account your earnings will show up here.
- A new feature is also added which is campaigns where you can create ads of your posts which will show up in Google searches. It is very easy way to increase your blog traffic but its worth.
- After campaigns there is a layout option where you can change favicon of your blog, select a navigation bar, add description,title or image to header, edit blog posts settings and add or remove a gadget to your blog.
- After layout there is Template option with which you can customize or edit your blog template and can choose another template for your blog.
- After all options there is a last and very important option of settings which helps you to control posts and comments settings, basic settings, search preferences, language, time zone, date and other.
How To Create A Blog?
(1). Create a Gmail account first and build your profile.
(2). Now go to http://www.blogger.com and sign in to your account.
(3). After signing in you will see below page.
(4). Click New blog to create blog,when you click it a popup window will open as shown below.
(5). Now give a title to your blog which will be the name of your blog, and select a url or web link for it. Sometimes your desired urls are not available. Take care of having a title similar to blog's url as it will be helpful for seo( search engine optimization). For example your blog's title is towntricks then select a similar link as I selected http://www.towntricks.blogspot.com .
(6). Below the Address option you can see Template which means how your blog will look? there are many templates such as simple, Dynamic, picture windows, Awesome inc, Travel etc. Select one of them which you like, I prefer simple as it looks good.
(7). After filling and selecting your choices click Create blog! Congratulations! your blog is created and ready to use.