Showing posts with label .blogspot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label .blogspot. Show all posts

Wednesday, 15 May 2013

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Before You Start a Blog, Check if Blogging is Right for You

Before you create a blog, its essential to figure out if blogging is a good fit for you to guarantee your blogging knowledge will be efficacious.

You Enjoy Spending Time Surfing the Web

Fruitful blogging needs an imposing time duty and an incredible bargain of sweat value. Blogging doesn't stop after you compose and distribute a blog post. Rather, it needs announcement, going by and perusing different blogs and sites, staying side by side of news and issues identified with your blog theme, and the sky is the limit from there. The greater part of your blogging exercises will happen on the web. To be a fruitful blogger, you should get a charge out of perusing, looking into, investing time on your workstation and surfing the web.

You Like to Write

In the event that you detest composition or composing doesn't fall into place without any issues for you, then blogging may not be for you. Fabricating an auspicious blog needs successive, compelling redesigns, reacting to remarks, leaving remarks on different blogs and that's only the tip of the iceberg. Each of the aforementioned triumph considers presupposes composing. To be an efficacious blogger, you must have the ability to compose productively.

You're Passionate About Your Blog's Topic

Fruitful blogging needs that the blogger compose visit, compelling posts about their blog's point to lure new bookworms, keep book lovers fascinated and hold book fans returning. Provided that you are just marginally fascinated by your blog's theme, it will be troublesome to log in every day and concoct crisp, animating posts and critique. By picking a point you're energetic about, it will be simpler to redesign your blog with a grin on your front side every day.

You Can Commit to Blogging


Efficacious blogging is a pledge as far as time and enterprise and needs an incredible bargain of self-teach and self-cause. You should can fit blogging into your timetable and be commited to adhering to that calendar.

You're Comfortable Publicizing Your Thoughts, Opinions and Ideas
As a blogger, you will be distributed your sentiments for the whole online group to read. While it is conceivable to remain unacknowledged and turn into an efficacious blogger, unnamed victory is not the standard. To lure a hefty gathering of people and seem honest in the blogosphere, more individuals have taken to imparting their characters and a considerable lot of individual informative data on the web. Accordingly, bloggers are laid open to negative reactions to their posts, and once in a while those negative investigates might be harmful. Fruitful bloggers can handle negative sentiment.

You're Not Afraid of Technology and You Are Willing to Learn

Blogging needs some learning of the Internet and basic programming. In the event that you are apprehensive about your workstation, then blogging may not be for you. Then again, assuming that you are ready to study, you can blog. Blogging and the Internet in general are     continually adapting, and even the best bloggers are always attempting to study new things to further improve their blogs. To be an efficacious blogger, you must be eager to study how to kick off and how to look after and enhance your blog sometime later.

You're Willing to Take Risks

Much of auspicious blogging is identified with going out on a limb from jumping in and beginning your first blog to starting your blog's first commercial or adding the first connection to your blogroll. To be an auspicious blogger, you must be eager to attempt new things to upgrade and push your blog.
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Tuesday, 14 May 2013

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Setting up and Configuring your Blog

When you have signed in, the first place you are taken to is called the Dashboard. From the dashboard you can manage all aspects of your blog and even create new blogs. The Dashboard is part of the backend of the website which is accessible to you alone.
One of the best things about a Google Blogger account is that you can open as many sites as you like all under one account. And they can all be managed via the Dashboard. 
If you have created only one blog, then you will see the title of only one blog. But if you have more than one blog, you will see all of them listed on the dashboard together with separate control menus for each of them.
To enter any blog, simply click on the blog. The blue New Post button is for creating new blog post. Edit Posts is for viewing, editing and managing all your blog posts. Settings takes you to the configuration settings of your blog. Design takes you to the place where you can change the design of your blog.  Monetize is the place where you handle all the money aspects of your blog such as how you can place adverts on your blog. And Stats shows you the number of visitors your website is getting.

Setting up and Configuring your Blog

To set up your blog for optimal performance, it is necessary to configure it by selecting and modifying some of the available options. They include: Posting, Settings, Design, Monetize, Stats etc.
We shall be looking at them one in a post, starting from the last, ‘Settings’.
Under ‘Basic’, you find:
‘Title’: This is the title you gave your blog when creating it. You can change it here.
‘Description’: This is where you describe what your blog is all about. It will appear below the title when visitors visit your website.
‘Privacy’: Here, you choose whether you want your blog to be listed on Blogger; visible to search engines. I’d suggest you select Yes.
‘Blog Address’: This is where you can change your blog address if you want to. However, it is not advisable to change or keep change your website/blog address.
‘Blog Authors’: This is where you can add more people to write and post on your blog if you are not the sole owner.
‘Blog Readers’: Here you choose who can read and comment on your blog. I’d suggest you select ‘Anybody’. 
‘Posts and Comments’: Among other things, the only one you need to know right now is that here, you can choose the number of posts that will appear on your homepage.
'Mobile and email’: Under this heading, you choose if you’d like to Post using SMS/MMS, email and also, how your comment box appears.
‘Language and formatting’: Here, among other things you can select the language in which your blog will be displayed, time format and time zone.
‘Search preferences’: At this level, you do not need to make any changes here. Simply move on to the next subheading.
‘Other’: One important feature of this heading is the Import Blog, Export Blog and Delete Blog.

 You can also select the size of your blog feed. Feed is the syndication of your blog content that your subscribers receive either via email or other media that available (more on this in another post). If your blog contains adult content, this is also where you indicate it; users coming to your site will receive a warning that your site contains adult content.

Note: Please don’t hesitate to highlight any thing you observe…and please do comment to let us know how we’re doing :)




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Monday, 13 May 2013

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Free or Paid Blog, Which is Better?

The table on the next page outlines some of the more important similarities and differences/pros and cons of both types. The free domain used here refers to Blogger (.blogspot.com) and may be different from other free hosts.

Free  (.blogspot.com)
Paid  (.com)
It’s Free. Can be converted to paid .com
Yearly renewal fees for the name
Free hosting for ever
Yearly renewal fees for the hosting
Can be used for online business
Can be used for online business
The name is sometimes too long
The name is shorter and easier
Less professional
More prestigious and professional
Visitors to the website will know that it’s a free website
Visitors to the website will not know whether it’s a free website or not
Does not affect traffic or reduce how much money the site will make
Does not affect traffic or reduce how much money the site will make
You have 100% access to all your data
You have 100% access to all your data 


 Depending on your preferences, you may choose to first start with the free name and hosting from Blogspot and later convert it to the paid type. On the other hand, you may choose not to wait till later and just go ahead and convert it to the paid type immediately after you have finished creating the blog.
Mind you, this does not mean that you cannot run a successful blog with the free .blogspot name and free hosting. You can have a successful website using a free name. In fact there are a lot of big popular websites today who are still using the free domain name with .blogspot and they are still making thousands every month from using it through online business. So converting to a paid domain is not a must for success. 
However, if you want a website address that is easy to pronounce and more professional, you should consider upgrading to the paid domain after you have built your website. 
This blog does not cover how to obtain and configure a paid domain because our focus is on how you can get everything set up for free without spending money. 
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