How to start a Blog in Blogger platform?
Blogger is a blogging platform by Google which is totally free to start a blog. Blogger was developed by Pyra labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. The blogs in blogger platform are hosted in Google’s servers at a sub-domain of blogspot.com. Blogs can also be hosted in the registered custom domain of the blogger.
Blogger is the most popular weblog platform among the beginners as it is totally free and easy to manage.
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Advantages of Blogger
- Free to start: Beginner bloggers may not have much money to invest for their new blogs. So they may need a free platform to start. Blogger is the best free blogging platform available.
- No Coding is required: You may don’t need any of the programming skills to start a blog in blogger. Just use blogger as you using Microsoft word.
- Multiple blogs per account: A blogger user can have upto 100 blogs per account, Can you imagine that you can create 100 websites in the internet for free.
- Easy to customize: In blogger you can easily customize your blog with out any coding. You may install custom templates or you may create your own templates using blogger theme editor with a basic knowledge in html and CSS.
- Search Engine Friendly: You know Google is the most popular search engine in the world wide web, so they provides some SEO tool to appear your posts in the top of the google search results.
Disadvantages of Blogger
Even though blogger has some advantages, there are some disadvantages also.
- Blogs are not your own: The blogs created in blogger are not really your own. They are hosted in google’s servers. Google has the full control over your blogs and they can delete it without any notice.
- URL structure is not user friendly: Google adds the year and month of the published date in your posts URL, which is not removable and will cause SEO of your blog.
- The lack of Plugins: In blogger unlike in WordPress or Joomla, you don’t have plugins to customize your blog and to add functions to the blog.
- Less number of Premium templates: Premium templates allow you to create professional looking websites and blogs. There is no professional looking templates for blogger platform.
Now let me describe you how to start a new blog in blogger platform.
How to start a blog in Blogger ?
Step 1: Create a new Google account if you don’t have already, like any other google services. Blogger also requires a account in Google.
Step 2: Open your favorite web browser and go to blogger.com. You may need to sign in using your google account.
Step 3: You will be now on blogger home page where your blogs are listed if you have already. Click on New Blog to create a new blog.
By clicking on New blog you will be opened a windows where you can enter your blog’s title, URL address, and template. Enter the title for your blog, and enter a address which is suitable for your blog’s title. Choose a basic template which can be changed or customized later. Now click Create Blog to create the blog.
Step 4: You are now created a new blog in blogger. Click on View Blog to see your blog in a new tab.
