All You Need to Know About Blogging | How to Start a Perfect Blog [Full Guide]

What you’ll learn in this post…

According to google blog means “a regularly updated website or web page, typically one run by an individual or small group, that is written in an informal or conversational style.”. One who owns a blog or a website can be called as Blogger, anything or any work you are doing related to your blog can be called as blogging. 

A blog is owned by a single person or a group of people who blog on tutorials, breaking news or most recent inventions or anything which is based on knowledge/information who are up to date. Blogs provide commenting system, blogs are frequently crawled by Search Engines and covers a wide variety of articles, Example – labnol.org, shoutmeloud.com. Where as a website can be of anything like social networks, video/live streaming sites, etc, Example – facebook.com, wikipedia.com

Why Blogging is Awesome?

I bet you that in today’s generation no one will hate blogging, in this 20th century internet almost became everything. This fast growing world cannot survive without internet for a day also. Internet has become a workshop or a company which gave work to thousands of people, and we bloggers make this internet active or we are the stars who give life to internet.Blogging is something which makes this online world awesome. Through blogging you can do anything everything you want, you can recommend a product to grow it’s sales or you can project the disadvantages of it and drop it.

Google vs. Bloggers!

You might have heard Google is very important for every blogger and it’s very bloggers dream to rank in google, but you guys forgot that fact that we bloggers only make Google, if we don’t give access to google to index our blog in their search engine, then google cannot survive! Even though they have extra services like youtube, but the major part of google that is Google Adsense, Google Adwords and Blogger are indirectly owned by us. Without us it’s nothing.

Blog Niche

Blog Niche is very important for bloggers, choosing a niche for your blog is one of the major task before you start a blog, you can start a multi niche blog, but start a blog on a topic and writing irrelevant articles in it will decrease the quality of your blog. So, choose a niche where you are a expert, many of us choose a main niche but write tutorials on blogging because we learn new things in blogging and we tend to express it to our readers, this is the reason why are there number of blogging related blogs.

There are hundreds of platform to create blogs. Popular ones are WordPress, Blogger, Tumbler, etc. 2 major, popular and trusted platforms are wordpress and blogger, wordpress.com and blogger are free blogging platforms which is open to everyone, where as wordpress.org is a self hosted blogging platform, where you have to host your website, but it provides us a lot of features, thousands of plugins, through which you can customize your website to any extent! I always recommend you to start with blogger, if you are a complete newbie to blogging, and then move to wordpress, when you have enough knowledge and you can afford hosting charges for your blog with blogging income.

Here, I will show you how to start a blog in blogger.com, blogger.com and wordpress.com are almost same, but blogger.com provides you more features and it is too flexible to customize your site in blogger. And it is 100% free, with blogspot domain, however you can buy a domain from godaddy for just Rs.70 using the coupon KIWI, and integrate into blogger. Now, let’s see how to start a blog in blogger.com.

Start your blog! with blogspot domain!

1. Go to Blogger.com
2. Click on New Blog located at left side.

   

3. Now, a new window will open, asking your blog title and blog URL, enter it as you wish are click on Create Blog!

Now click on your blog name to get in.

And that’s you blog dashboard, Learn more about dashboard below!

1. Overview: This button contains all your blog stats, including blog posts, and comments. Any latest news from blogger buzz will be displayed below. And updates like comments awaiting moderation,Published comments, Pageviews today, Posts, Followers will be shown in right side, and menu will be located on left side.
2. Posts: This menu will contain all your post in different columns like scheduled, draft. You can assign labels to your post, preview draft posts, manage scheduled posts here. And separate stats for each posts is shown corresponding to each posts here.
3. Pages: This section contains different pages of your blog, you can create any number of pages, like contact page, about page, privacy policy, disclaimer, sitemap, etc. Pages are very similar to posts, but they are of separate use.
4. Comments: This section contains all your blog comments, you replies, comments awaiting moderation, etc.You can delete and approve any comments any time, but you should be admin of that blog in order to attain full access to this section.
5. Google+: This is a separate section for sharing your blog posts on google plus, you can control auto share, ask for share, and also manage comments from google plus to appear on your blog is you are using google commenting system.
6. Stats: Here you can see all your blog stats, by country, by browsers, etc. Only the overview of stats is shown in overview menu, a detailed analytics of your blog visitors is displayed here, you can also check the major keywords through which your blog is getting traffic here!
7. Earnings: This sections provide you access to adsense approval form, if you are blogger from India and China, then you need to own a blog of atleast 6 months old in order to apply for adsense.
8. Campaigns: Here you can create ads about your blog your ads will be displayed in adsense ad enabled blog of same niche through which you can get 1000s of visitors, but it is costly!
9. Layout: Here you can edit your site’s layout, you can add new block and customize them with html codes, or related post, etc. You can also align your blog post layout here and also setup your favicon for your blog here.
10. Template: Here you can view and edit your blog theme for both desktop and mobile, you can edit the HTML coding of your site’s template here easily. 
11. Settings: All main settings of your blog is located here in different sections as follows…

   13. The pencil type button is also a button to create new post, sheet type button is to view our          post, and view blog button is to view your blog.

   14. This is graph type statistics of your blog page views and below the top three traffic sources          will be mentioned. 

   15.This is an overview of your blog stats, comments and followers.

Set up a perfect Theme for your Blog!

Your Blog template is very important for your blog, that is the first appearance to your blog reader, so choosing it is very important. There are lakhs of themes available for blogger platform for free, you job is just to choose the best one out of it!

Also Read:

• Top 10 Free Professional Looking Blogger Templates 2015
• Top 7 Crazy Ideas to Get Free Traffic for your Blog

Click on New Post, the orange button located at top right corner or the pencil like icon at top, your blogger writing pad will open, now look at the below screenshot and the following points to write your first article now!

1. It’s your post title which is very important, because this is very first impression your readers see, when you share your articles in social media. So, keep it a catchy one!
2. These are edits for your content, like font size, style, heading, bold, italic, underline, strike, colour, highlight, link, pic, video, etc.
3. This is content and html switching area, if you want to add html tags in your post, then go there add it. Handling it without knowledge may lead to an error.
4. This a small menu to publish your article, check preview of it, save it as draft and publish it later, or close the writing pad.
5. This is main customization part, here you can add label/tags for your blog, schedule it for publishing, customize permalinks, add location of posting, meta search description, allow commenting on that post, etc.

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