News!! Getting Started Amongst Blogger

This post is near things you lot postulate to retrieve near when you're getting started amongst Blogger.  It's non near blogging inwards general, simply near tool-specific issues for Blogger, Google's gratis blogging tool.

First things first

Once you've decided to role Blogger to brand your blog, at that spot are some basic issues that you lot postulate to visit equally before long equally possible.

1  Understand the basic concepts

Every estimator tool has its ain agency of organising things.   When you lot retrieve near how to write your blog, it's helpful if you lot start amongst an agreement of Blogger, blogs too bloggers, Posts, Pages too screens.

2 Decide which trouble concern human relationship to use

If you lot are writing a personal diary, travel-blog or similar, it's fine to role your personal Google account.

But if you lot are creating a weblog for a club, or organsation or business (even your ain small-scale trouble concern that you lot mightiness desire to sell 1 day), or a blog that you lot mightiness desire to mitt over to someone else 1 day, too therefore you lot should retrieve real carefully near what Google trouble concern human relationship to use.   In fact, I recommend creating a variety account (done past times setting upwards a Gmail account) simply for the blog.

If you're non convinced, read this article near transferring weblog ownership, specially the parts that cannot go transferred equally yet.

3    Control who tin run across the blog

Most blogs are opened upwards therefore that anyone tin detect them, too read them.

But if you lot desire to halt a weblog existence flora past times search engines, or past times random people looking at Google's listing of blogs, too therefore the best fourth dimension to gear upwards this upwards is earlier you've written whatsoever posts.   You gear upwards it upwards inwards the Settings tab within Blogger.

For fifty-fifty to a greater extent than control, you lot tin brand the weblog Private, too guide to solely invite specific people to read it.  Do this inwards the Settings tab, too.   But banking concern annotation that:

• You tin solely ship 100 invitations, ever; they may alter this inwards the future, but that's the bound for now.
• There are some cases when restricting your blog's  readership may non go equally secure equally you'd expect.

4   Decide whether to assistance the search engines

There are lots of books, articles too websites near Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) - too enough of people who volition say you lot that it's the most of import matter you lot tin do, ever.

Now, if you lot desire search-engines (Google etc) to convey readers to your blog, too therefore you lot may desire to investigate some of these later on.   But inwards the meantime Google accept published a full general "getting started amongst SEO guide" - too I've explained how Blogger users tin set their suggestions into practise.

But you lot also desire to retrieve near the reasons why SEO may go irrelevant for your blog, too.

5    Get a template to gibe your blog

Each Blogger weblog has a formatting-template that controls how it looks.

After you lot accept written 2-3 posts, endeavor using a changing to role a dissimilar template therefore that your blog's blueprint matches your goals.

To alter the template larn to Dashboard > Template too guide one.

You could pass a long fourth dimension "tweaking" your template to brand the weblog expression "just right".   If this is of import to you, too therefore produce it!  But most readers are to a greater extent than interested inwards the content, therefore you lot postulate determine how much fourth dimension to pass doing this vs writing novel posts.

What next?

There's no "right way" to role Blogger or brand a blog:  the adjacent steps are upwards to you.

Look around.   Experiment.

Keep an midpoint on Blogger Buzz (where Google denote novel features), too on the Blogger production forums (where you lot tin enquire for assistance when you lot larn stuck).  

Have fun!

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Getting started amongst SEO for blogger users

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Linking your Blog to the Social Networks

Managing Pictures

Restricting your blog's  readership may non go equally secure equally you'd expect.

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