STEPS TO START BLOGGING


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BloggerBlogger offers an easy way to collaborate, discuss, or share your thoughts with others.This guide can help you familiarize yourself with the main features of Blogger and get started writing your own blog.To start using Blogger, simply sign in with your Google Account. (If you use Gmail, Google Groups, or orkut, you already have an account.) If you don't have a Google Account yet, you can create one now.

Create a blog get started with Blogger, visit the Blogger homepage, enter your username and password, and click Sign in. Enter a display name and accept Blogger's Terms of Service. Then click the Create a Blog link and get started!Pick a name and address (URL) for your blog.If the name is already registered by someoneelse then choose another name for your blog . Then, choose your favorite template (this is how your blog will look when you publish it). Now get creative, add information to your personal profile, and customize how your blog looks, if you feel up to it. Start blogging now!

1.Write your post
Once you've signed in to Blogger, you'll see your dashboard with your list of blogs. Here's what you need to do:
Click the NEW POST button and enter anything you want to share with the world.2. Next, you'll see the Create New Post page. Start by giving your post a title (optional), then e nter the post itself:3. When you're done, click the Preview link to make sure it's ready to go:Once you're satisfied with your post, click the Publish button. This will publish your new post.
2.Add an image
You can add an image from your computer or the Web to your blog. Click the image icon in the post editor toolbar. ( Tips : we can add and image from “Add gadget “ option > choose add image . But from the edit post toolbar>compose tab > ad image button it is more specific and recommended) Here a window appears prompting you to browse for an image file on your computer, or enter the URL of an image on the Web.
Tips : this image can be an affiliate program link as well help you earn fom pay per click or pay per lead program ! eg. With the tag
Once you've selected your image, you can then choose a layout to determine how your image will appear in your post:The 'Left', 'Center', and 'Right' options allow you to customize the way your blog text will flow around your image.
The 'Image size' options will determine how large the image will appear within your post.Click UPLOAD IMAGES to add your image, and then click DONE when the notification window appears telling you that 'Your image has been added.' Blogger will then return you to the post editor, where you'll see your image ready to be published to your blog.
You can also publish images to your blog using your mobile device, Google's free photo software Picasa, or a third-party service like flickr.

Add a video
To add a video to your blog post, click the film strip icon in the post editor toolbar above where you compose your blog text. A window appears prompting you to 'Add a video to your blog post.'Click Browse to select the video file from your computer that you'd like to upload. Note that Blogger accepts AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, Real and Windows Media files and that your video must be less than 100MB in size.
Before uploading your video, add a title in the 'Video Title' box and agree to the Terms and Conditions (you'll only have to do this the first time that you upload a video with Blogger). Then click UPLOAD VIDEO.
While your video uploads, you'll see a placeholder in the post editor showing where your video will appear. You'll also see a status message below the post editor letting you know that your upload is in progress. Depending on the size of your video, this usually takes about five minutes. When it is complete, your video will appear in the post editor.Want to see this in action?

Customizing your layout
Your template is a fun way to customize your blog. When creating a new blog, you're first asked to choose a default template, this is the basic design of your blog. You can customize your blog's design using our intuitive drag-and-drop interface. You can also add powerful gadgets such as slideshows, user polls, or even get ads from google through its google adsense program
Tip: Taking adsense affiliate from www.google.com.adsense is better than the adsense tab in blogger since blogger will take some extra commission of work if the adsense tab of blogger is used !!
If you want more precise control over your blog's layout, you can also use the Edit HTML feature.
Tips : From this tab you can add meta description for better search engine rankings as well as adsense ad codes directly to the templates code area for better revenue .
For other details ,
Click the Layout link from your dashboard below the blog you would like to customize.From the Page Elements sub-tab, click Edit to edit existing gadgets, or Add a Gadget to add new ones.
To add a new gadget after you've clicked Add a Gadget, simply click the plus sign next to your desired gadget. You can choose from gadgets by category, or search for a specific gadget in the top right of the pop-up window.
Once you've added the necessary information to your selected gadget, click SAVE. Your layout changes will appear instantly.
Tips : one of the greatest problem that bloggers can’t solve is the blog post have the property that the oldest post goes down to the last part of the page and the new post comes up :
Two measures for this problem :
1. In the Settings tab>publish post > choose no. of posts in the front page as 1 and customize the ‘archieves feature in the settings tabs as one with simple date format and assign a topic
2. Drag and drop the archieves to the right or left side or top and bottom of the page so that visitors can see at every posts .!! you may add multiple archieves with add gadget> add archieves feature
3. Use of two internal bookmarking tag ( you may not need to learn any more html other than this !!!) < name > tag and < a href > tag

Privacy and permissionsBy default, your blog is completely public, and can be read by anyone on the internet. However, if you want to keep it private, you can do that, too. You cna change these settings on the Settings Permissions tab.
Under the 'Blog Readers' heading, you'll probably see 'Anybody' selected as the default. When you change this to 'Only readers I choose,' you'll get an Add Readers button.

Click the Add Readers button and then enter the email address of a person to whom you'd like to grant access to your blog. To add multiple people, separate their addresses with commas.For each address entered, the Google Account associated with that address will be given access to view your blog. If an address is not associated with an account, that person will receive an invitation email with a link allowing them do one of three things:
Sign in to an existing account.
Create a new account.
View your blog as a guest (no account required).

Follow other blogs

With the Blogger Following feature you can keep track of the blogs you follow via your Reading List on the Blogger dashboard. There are several ways to become a follower of a blog. One of the easiest ways is to visit a blog that has added the 'Following' widget, ad then follow these steps:Click the FOLLOW THIS BLOG link under the 'Followers' widget.You'll then see a pop-up window with the options to either follow publicly or anonymously.Select how you'd like to follow the blog, then click the orange FOLLOW button. You're now a follower of the blog! If you chose to follow the blog publicly, your profile picture will be displayed on the blog with a link to Blogger profile . When you become a follower of a blog, the blog will also be added to your Reading List on your Blogger dashboard. Additionally, you can become a follower of any blog or URL (even if the blog doesn't have the 'Followers' widget) by adding the blog to your Reading List on the dashboard