Having a blog is a great thing as you can share anything you like,
and if you are like one of those smart people you can also earn a decent
income from your blog. ( Read: How much a blogger earned from his blog
in a month). Here at ShoutMeLoud I have shared about many blogging
platform that you can use to create a blog for yourself and one of my
favorite is creating a blog on your own domain and hosting via
WordPress.
We have talked a lot about
self hosted WordPress blog
and no doubt it’s a better blogging platform when we compare to free
blogging platforms like BlogSpot.com and WordPress.com. But many
newbies who wants to start blogging, doesn’t want to spend initial
amount to create a blog and it does make sense.
There are many blogging platform which offers user to create Free
Blogs. If you are looking for free blog creation, my suggestion would be
start blogging from WordPress.com or BlogSpot.com and once he is use to
Blogging, he should go more professional with his own self hosted
WordPress blog.
BlogSpot let you
create a Free blog but comes with
it’s own limitation, but as I mentioned above, for a starter it’s a good
idea to create a Blog and get the hitch of Blogging.
This post is dedicated to those people, who want’s to start with Blogging. In this post we will be talking about how you can
create a free BlogSpot blog.
Before I start with complete tutorial, few things which you should
know. BlogSpot is a blogging platform by Google which give you option to
start a blog, all your images will be hosted by Picasa which is again a
part of Google.
Note: If your goal with blog is to make money and make it look more
professional, I would recommend you to create your blog on WordPress.
It’s easy and with the
help of our exclusive free WordPress guide, You can create your blog in next 60 minutes.
Step by step guide to Create a free Blog on BlogSpot
To create your a free Blog site, head over to
BlogSpot.com
and login using your Google account. If you don’t have a Google (Gmail)
account, create one for free. For the first time user, you will get an
option to use your identity which you can select from your Google plus
profile or use your limited BlogSpot profile. I would recommend use your
Google plus profile. Once you are logged in, click on new blog or click
on this link to directly go to
Create a free blog.
NAME YOUR BLOG
First thing which you need to do is by adding a name and selecting your domain name. I suggest go through my post on
how to select a domain name.
Avoid using your name as domain name and instead use some generic
domain name which you can brand later on with your custom domain. You
can select the blog template here ( You can change it anytime later) and
click on create blog.
Now your blog is created but you are not done yet. There are few setting
which you need to do on your newly created BlogSpot blog to make it
easy to use. Now you will be on the BlogSpot dashboard where you will
see your blog backend and now you can go to settings and make changes to
improve your blog visibility. Here is a screenshot of what you would
be seeing:
From here you can click on posts > New post and start writing your
first blog post. Before you do that, I would recommend you to go to
pages and create few pages like “About” which should be about you and
what this blog is about. You can read my earlier guide on
why you need an about page for your blog.
Most important you should change your blog template as default one is generic and boring in my opinion.
Here I have compiled a list of free BlogSpot templates
that you can download and install on your blog. If not, you can always
go to settings> Template and make changes like add your logo to the
header of BlogSpot blog, add elements you want to add and remove
anything you like.
Once you have few blog posts up and running, you can go to settings >
Earnings and enable AdSense for your blog. This way you can also earn
money from your free BlogSpot blog.
WAYS TO MAKE MONEY ONLINE WITH YOUR BLOG
1) GOOGLE ADSENSE
2) ADVERT PLACEMENT
3) AFFILIATE MARKETING
4) REFERRAL SYSTEMS
Nice article man that’s very helpful. Select Perfect Blog or Website Name.
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