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

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.

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!

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…

Set up a perfect Theme for your Blog!

Also Read:

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

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.

Search Engine Optimization!

The process of optimizing your site to rank first in search engines is know as Search Engine Optimization. Here you should know about some terms, learn them now…

Keyword: Keyword is a single word or a phrase which is based on your article title and the users search in search engines, how higher you optimize to match your keyword with search terms, there lies your ranking ability!

Keyword Density: It is the percentage of how many times you have used keyword in your article. It can be calculated, by dividing number of times you have used the keyword in article by number of words in article and multiplying it by 100, it is recommended to be below 5%.

Backlinks: Backlinks are incoming links to a website or web page through which the ranking factor of a blog could be raised to a great extent.

• Do-Follow Backlink: Will pass on the SEO benefits of the website.
• No-Follow Backlink: Does not give you any SEO benefits if the link’s relation is no follow.

On-page SEO: Whatever optimization you do on your blog like content optimization, template customization, plugins, are known as onpage seo factors.

Off-page SEO: Whatever you do outside your blog like making backlink, syndication of your blog posts, sharing your blog posts on social media, etc are know as off page seo.

Bounce Rate: The percentage of visitors who enter the site and leave the site rather than continue viewing other pages within the same site

Domain Authority: A score of your blog consedering 40 factors, calculated by moz.com

Page Authority: Score of a particular page of your blog.

Pagerank: Google’s score for your blog out of 10.

Moz Rank: Moz’s calculated metrics of your blog.

Alexa Rank: Alexa ranking is based upon number of factors.

Also Read:

• 101 ways to improve your SEO in 2015
• ANATOMY of SEO [Infographic]
• How to improve Alexa Ranking within 48 hours
• 5 Advanced SEO Settings for Blogspot Blogs
• Submit Blogger Sitemap to Google, Bing and Yahoo Search Engines

Monetization of your Blog!

Everyone of us know, Google Adsense is the best place to monetize your blog, when google adsense was established google invited bloggers to use adsense, then they made it strict and approved only blog which was with adsense policies. But nowadays it is a bit easy to get adsense approval by following some tactics! First when you start your blog, you won’t get adsense approved, so first go for infolinks use it for some weeks, after your blog is at least 2 months old, has 30 posts, then apply for adsense you will surely get it approved! Nowadays people are getting adsense approved for 2 weeks old blogs also, for those works you need to do some experiments and should have good blogging knowledge and experience!

Also Read:

• 10 Quick Tips to get Adsense Approved within Hours [Complete Guide]
• Top 5 Best Ad Networks for Low Traffic Blogs

Final Verdict!

Blogging is something which I love doing, through blogging you can get millions of benefits, through blogging you can become a great writer, you can become a better thinker. You’ll live a more intentional life if you are a blogger, in blogging you will meet many new people all around the world daily. You will make thousands of dollars while sleeping! If I start listing out benefits of blogging, then this post may cross 3000 words, to make it short and simple, I conclude here by saying blog, blog and blog forever!!!