Next you click on create an account, enter your gmail account user name and password, pick a screen name for blogging (it can be anything including your own name) Then you will go to the next screen where it asks you for a blog title and a blog address. ( a place where people can find you on the internet) For this blogs purpose I chose a blog title of Rod's Blog and a web address of rodsnewblog.blogspot.com Not particularly ingenious but it will work for today.
Now they ask you to pick a template. Seems easy but it is always a difficult decision. But it is one you can change later. One piece of advise I can tell you is never use a black background with white lettering, it is hard to read. So go ahead, pick a template and then we can really get started.
Now Blogger will bring you to a blog window. Here is where you can actually start blogging, sharing your thoughts and insights with the world! If you can't wait to get going, that's OK you can always come back to the full set up later.
At the top of the blog box you will see tabs, POSTING, SETTINGS , LAYOUT. Click the settings tab for now. Here you will see Blog tools, Title, Description, Add you blog to our listing, Let search engines find your blog, Show quick editing on your blog, Show Email post links, Adult content and some global settings (this applies to all your blogs) Show Compose mode for all your blogs and Enable transliteration.
OK so you can just ignore the blog tools for now. So add a title, make it descriptive but short. Next there is the description: Use as many words as you can to describe your blog. The more descriptive the easier a time that Google and other search engines will have in finding your blog. K next is Add you blog to our listing. Click yes so that Blogger will list in on their site. This will make you easier to find too! Next is Let search engines find you: Definitely yes. The way to make money is to let Google, Yahoo, MSN and the other search engines find you so that people will read your blog and click on your ads!! Or even buy your stuff. K now we see show quick editing: this is good so that if you see a mistake you can fix it easily. Now we see show email post links: this also is good because the name of the game is to get the word out. Now there is Adult content: that is totally up to you. What are you talking about. Who knows it might peak peoples interest to see what's inside :) Now for the global settings. Show compose mode is helpful so go for it & enable transliteration: I think most internet explorers have their own translator but if you want to use it then go ahead.
Now if yo look up you will see a bunch of tabs starting with: Basic, Publishing, Formatting, Comments and so on. So click the Publishing tab. This gives you the option of publishing your blog on blogger or if you have your own domain then you can publish your blog there. (I like this idea because it is easier to optimize which means to make it easier for Google and the other search engines to find your blog) Now goto formatting: enter in all the information that pertains to you. (The more specific you are the better) Now goto comments. It is good to show comments because if people have questions you can answer them. (unless you don't expect any questions on your particular type of blog. Now we see Who can comment: I like to click anyone so that anyone can ask questions. you can fill out the rest of this tab according to your personal preference. The rest of the tabs are self explanatory so fill them all out and click on the layout tab.
Now we go to page elements: you can arrange your page pretty much however you want. You can add gadgets. ( i like gadgets!!) Just be sure to add google adsense. We will get to that tomorrow! Now click on fonts and colors. I like to use the ones that came with the template so let's keep going.
Click on edit HTML This is also important because you can add titles, keywords and meta tag descriptions. Huh? what? use this as a template and add descriptive words to it.
Just put the words between the "" Again just be as descriptive as possible. but this is important! It will help Google see your blog!! I will give you more about optimizing tomorrow!
So lastly for today the next tab is choose a new template. This is where you can pick other templates. Or even learn how to design your own.
Oh ya, and one more thing. Fill out your profile. The more information you post as it pertains to your blog the better. Click on the dashboard button on the top right of the page and stat editing! Have fun!
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