Before you start creating your first blog, it is necessary
that you make up your mind to stay committed. If you need little push to get
moving read whether you should blog or not? I have tried to explain to my best about the precursors of blogging.
Now let’s get started with creation of your first blog. Creating a blogger blog is simplest.
All you need to have is a registered
gmail account. Be very specific with the choice of the blog name as it is
your brand. Choosing a blog domain
is very crucial step in blogging. From SEO or Search Engine Optimization’s
perspective your domain is also a traffic driving force. Try to match the most
relevant keyword according to your blog niche with blog domain.
For instance if I search for “graduate school web development” see the top results returned by
Google.
Structuring the URL to include keywords is still a good SEO
practice. Therefore whatever your blog is about find the most relevant keyword
associated with it and try to use it in your blog domain name.
Note that it’s not
mandatory to make use of Exact Matching
Keywords as domains. In the recent days I have got a lot of feedback that
Google algorithms are targeting Exact
Match Domains. Better avoid using such tactic.
However your post and page titles should contain keywords
and it will definitely help you.
Now that you have chosen the name for your blog, the next
step is to designing your blogspot blog.
Start with choice of the templates. Google offers you Simple, Dynamic Views, Picture
Window, Awesome Inc., Watermark, Ethereal and Travel blog templates to choose
from.
If you are satisfied (which you should not!) with these
templates then you can proceed with choosing any one of them but I personally
don’t like any of these templates. None of them give a professional look to the
blogs. Instead I prefer to make use of free
blogger templates easily available. There are valid reasons to choose these
templates:
- Your blog is much more appealing and presentable using such templates
- You get more functionalities with these templates
- Free templates are well free to use
- Their design makes your blog stand out of the crowd unlike millions of others
Here I have compiled the best free templates for blogspot blog along with their download links.
You will also find installation tutorials in the download zip.
After you are ready with your primary blog structure then it’s
time to move ahead with the designing work. I am expecting that you will be
designing a blog like mine, so I will proceed one by one in progressing posts.
What to do in the
meantime?
While you are thinking, designing and taking all the pain
for getting started with your blog it is necessary that you spend some time on social profile building in the mean
time.
- Create a Google+ page for your blog which you will be using to add a Google Badge on your blog.
- Create a Facebook page for your blog which will be used to drive traffic from Facebook to the blog using the likes and shares
- *Optional-Create a Pinterest account to directly share images from your blog to your followers on Pinterest and drive traffic
*The optional step is
for those whose blog is about ecommerce and selling product
The Concluding Part
After all these steps you should add the Google Analytics tracking ID to blogger for complete
metrics of performance of your blog.
As it is said that what
can be measured can be improved, with Analytics data you can better optimize your blogspot blog.
Which is the most effective key word hunting tool?.
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