What is Blogging and how to Create own Blog for free?
In a previous post, we learned how we can create our own blog for free and start posting. I talked about Blogger.com, how secure it is and free ( you don't need to pay for hosting ).
But every newbie blogger doesn't know where to start, how to customize blog etc.
Settings Tab
This is the important part of your Blog. There are 6 different tabs in the Settings tab. From this tab, you can change or set your blog description, change the title of your blog. Edit your blog privacy so you can set your blog visible only to specified people. You can set a custom domain. Set a custom 404 page not found the page, edit robots.txt which I will explain in future, some search preferences etc.
Post Tab
The main part of blogger where you can create a new post, it can be in a different format such as video, photos, text. In blogger no limit to create posts. There are different features to edit your text, give them colors, change the size of text, picture etc.
You can customize your posts by switching to HTML tab.
Also Read: How to add link comments in Blogger
Pages Tab
There you can create pages, same as posts. But the difference is that pages you create will not show on your blog homepage. You can create pages such as contact us, about us, privacy policy, sitemap etc.
And link your pages on your homepage or wherever you want.
Comments Tab
In this tab, you can delete some comments from your blog, mark as spam etc.
Stats Tab
In this tab, you can see your blog page views per day, week or month. From which country people visit your blog, from which device and browser. Most read posts and referring URL. From which sites you get more visitors etc.
Earnings Tab
You can earn money from your blog with Google Adsense. But if you are a newbie I recommend you to concentrate on learning SEO tips. If you get huge traffic on your blog then you can submit it for Google Adsense, but before I recommend you to read their programs' policies and compare your blog with all policies. If your site complies with Adsense policies, sign up for the approval of Adsense. Wait for the response, it can take up from one day to weeks. After Adsense reviewed your blog you will get a mail from Adsense.
Campaigns tab
Your blog will appear at the top of Google search. You need to pay for this feature, and Google will automatically show your blog results at the top with keywords.
Layout Tab
There you can arrange the positions of gadgets as you want. Or you can add a new gadget just by pressing in "add a gadget" button. There are ready gadgets from blogger, or you can add your own gadget if you know HTML, CSS, Javascript. Choose "HTML/JavaScript" and add your gadget code to box and press the Save button.
Template Tab
You can change the template of your blog. There are ready templates from blogger, you can edit HTML of the blog, add some CSS code and customize it. Or you can upload your own template fro blogger by using Backup/restore button. And you can download your blog template.
Customize your blog for the mobile version, set your own template if it's compatible with mobile devices and much more things.
That's it. Stay tuned to learn blogging tips, build your blog and get the best results from it.
