CREATE YOUR BLOG

Go to www.blogspot.com to create your blog. You can take a tour of the site, view a video tutorial, or read about blogger from posts made by blogger users. You will be asked to provide an email address. If you already have one with Gmail, Google Groups, or Orkut simply log into your account first; then create your blog because you can login to Blogger with your Google Account and now you have one less username and password to remember.

Ì To choose an available URL you need to think about what you want your internet address to become so that surfers will find your blog. The more relevant to the topic or niche the better. If you change your mind and want a different URL later, making the change is easy to do.

So that your blog is not a blank piece of paper, blogger provides templates for you to choose from. Pick the theme that you like the best. The blogs are editable so you can customize them to your taste. You can also add interesting widgets, photos, videos, slideshows, user polls, and AdSense ads! Blogger is very user friendly so you can adjust the fonts and text colors on the template with ease. Adding photo’s and video’s are a greet way to generate interest in your blog and drive traffic to your page.

Once you have created the traffic I just referred to; give your readers the option to follow your blog by adding the follow gadget to your layout. When your readers click the "Follow This Blog" link this will add your blog to their personal dashboard in their Blogger/Google Reader account they now will know when you post new content and hopefully share it with others. Add the share button to your entries for the ease of the reader to forward your blog to their friends and family.

Ì The comments feature/feedback for your blog can be turned on or off. It’s a bit of a gamble and depends on what your writing about and how open you are to others including competitors commenting on your page where others can read it.

Ì Always allow your readers an option of becoming a subscriber to your blog so they're notified whenever you publish a new blog post.