A Complete Guide to Setting up a Blog With Blogger.com

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Blogger.com is one the best platform for creating a free professional blog. You can manage several blog with just one Google account without spending a single penny. Blogger.com is very customizable & easy to use, with blogger.com you can give a unique design to your blog with or without using HTML & Css. I always suggest newbie to use blogger.com because it help you in learning more about blogging, even some top brands like twitter are using blogger.com to create a blog for their companies.

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Create a Blog

First of all create a new Google account, If you already owns a Google account then skip this step and proceed to next step.
Now login to www.blogger.com using your Google Account.

After login to your account, Click on New Blog button.

Now a pop-up will appear asking several information including blog name, blog URL and blog theme, fill them correctly and click on Create blog button.

How to Post ???

After creating a blog with blogger.com, you have been wondering about posting a content on your new blog, read the below points and it will tell you everything about blogger.com posting tool:

In blogger dashboard click on pencil icon placed next to your blog.

Now the whole blog posting tool will appear in your computer screen, this blog posting tool is very easy to use if you are already familiar with MS word.

Giving a Title to your Post

Giving a title to your blog post is most important step because without it search engines will never index your website and also blogger.com don't allow users to write post without giving a title to it.
Insert your post title here:

Writing Main Content

Now we are going to write the main body of your post, click on big text box and start typing your post.
You can easily customize your post using the option provided above like : bold, italic, underline, align, color change etc.

Adding Images to blog post

Never forget to add images to your blog post because it will make your post more attractive and beautiful, To add image to your post click on image icon placed on tool box bar.

Now click on choose file and select image file from your PC, after uploading image click on Add Selected button.

Adding Labels to blog post

Adding labels to your blog post will help your readers and search engines to easily categorize your post. Click on label tab placed on right sidebar.
Now give the label to the post .

After typing the label click on done button.

Preview & Publish Post

After writing whole post use preview button and check how your post will look to other and use publish button to finally show your post on your blog.

Create a Page

You might be wondering that why you have to create a page on your blog. A blog should have contact page, about page, policy page and so on. To create this type of page follow below steps:

In blogger dashboard click on down arrow placed next to "go to post list" button.
Now select Page option out of it.
Select New Page option.

instruction for creating a page in blogger

Now a posting tool will appear on your screen, use it create and publish page.

Manage Comments

Comments are most important tool of blogging, if your blog is getting to many comments it mean your blog readers are showing interest in reading your blog. But some times many people leave spam comments on blog which decreases the blog ranking, follow below steps to manage comments on your blog:

Go to blogger dashboard
Click on down arrow placed next to "go to post list" button and select comments.
Now all comments which users leave on your blog will appear on your screen. Now you can remove of sent comments to spam folder with one click.

Check Blog Stats

Blogger > Stats tool help to track page-view, traffic source and from where audience are coming. To check your blog stats follow below steps:

Go to blogger dashboard
Click on down arrow placed next to "go to post list" button and select stats tab.

Guide to Blogger Layout

If you want to add any widget externally on your blog without editing main html code of you website then adding gadget to layout section is best option.

Go to blogger dashboard > layout
Now you will see a proper layout of website including header, footer, post area, sidebar etc. To Add any widget click on Add Gadget button and a popup with lot of inbuilt widget will appear in from of you.

How To Install Blogger Template

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. If you blog will have attractive design then users will also enjoy reading your blog, Here are some professional blogger templates for your blog.

Change Blogger Templates

There are many default blogger template already installed in your blog and you just have to pick one of them, follow below steps to choose blogger templates from default collection:

Go to blogger dashboard > Template
Now Click on customize button
Now you will see many themes, just select any theme by clicking on it and save it.

Install External Blogger Templates

Blogger Templates collection don't have many themes but there are many professional blogger template available on web, to install it on your blog follow below steps:

Login to blogger dashboard.
On Blogger Dashboard Click Template
Now Click On Backup/Restore button (Top Right).
Click Choose File button. Find where the “yourtheme.xml” file location.
Now Click On Upload Button.

From the Editor Desk

I hope that this tutorial will help you to create your very first blog using blogger.com, If you like this tutorial then feel free to share it with your friends. If you have more question about blogger.com then use below comment box and leave your comment there.