Blogging is a way of expressing yourself. Most newbie bloggers start blogging at a simple free platform. Among them Blogger is one of the simplest and user-friendly platform to give a start. Once you grow your audience, you can either add a custom domain and stay with Blogger or you can transport your blog to a new platform like WordPress. In this post we will be guiding you through how to start a Bloggers blog step by step.

What is Blogger

Blogger is a blogging platform provided by Google for free of charge. Here you are given tools to start your new blog in a simple interface. Though simple, it has all the features for a newbie blogger to thrive. Usually, most industries and bloggers start at a free platform as it is risk free and free of charge, once the content is rich and audience grows, they move to a platform like WordPress for more features and space.   

Step 01


First, you have to log into your google account using your internet browser, once you are logged in you can see your user avatar on the top of the browser. You can click onto google applications, scroll down and you will find Blogger application, click on it.

Step  02


Next step is providing your blog a name. This will be displayed on the top of your blog page. Select a topic suitable for your niche (the area you have selected to write blog posts.) and click next. 


 In this phase you have to provide a web address for your blog. You will have to provide a short, easily perceived and specific name which gives the reader a quick idea about your blog. You will have to prepare a list of names with slight alterations as if the name you provide already exist, you cannot take that domain name. Try each names in your list until you get one correct. Since Blogger is a free platform, they provide a sub domain name with .blogspot at the end of your address. Your blog address will be something like: https://mynewblog.blogspot.com.  No need to worry about this, once you have enough contents and audience, you can go for a custom domain. We will discuss about it in a new post. 

 


 

Now you have a brand-new blog. You can select a theme according to your preference in the theme section. If you want a custom theme to be installed, Blogger provides you that facility too. You can customize your blog in the layout section and we will discuss about customizations in a different post.

Now it is the time to provide contents to your blog. Let us start writing your first blog post. Click on the new post button and enter the blog editor. It is quite similar to a word processing software like Ms Word, so it should be quite familiar to you. If you want, you can compose the contents in a word processor and copy paste the content into the editor. You may add images, videos or YouTube videos to enhance the quality of your post. Do not forget to provide a suitable title to your blog post.  


Once you have completed, you can preview the post to see how your new post is seen in a web browser. After you go through the double checking process for spelling and grammar mistakes you can publish your post by hitting the publish button. Congratulations, you have published your first blog post.

Now it is the time to enrich your blog. Have a fixed time line and publish post regularly. This is very important as readers like to see fresh contents in your blog. You can post daily, weekly or have your own specific routine and stick to the plan. Share the posts among your social media friends, without sharing you cannot reach your audience, request your friends to share your post. You can have a separate social media page or pages to post contents. You can have a YouTube channel too. There are multitude of ways to share your posts right into your target audience; by doing so, you will see that your audience grow day by day. You can check your progress by clicking the stats on the left side of your Bloggers dashboard.

When you keep on blogging, you will see you gradually develop your writing skills and SEO techniques. Keep doing the good work. Be consistent, you will definitely get good results soon. Keep in touch with us to learn more about blogging and tips to thrive thorough your blog. There are many supportive blogs to reach your target. Keep reading and practising yourself.

Hop you had a clear idea about starting your first blog in Bloggers platform. Share the post if you find it useful to others. Start your new blog today!, Please, leave a comment about your experience with blogging.