How to set up and build a blogger blog website - Complete Tutorial

Hey guys, I am back with a very useful post which is worth a bookmark for you. You want to start a blogger blog  for personal purpose, story writing or a blog for your business. In my previous post about blogging, I've explained you what are the different platforms of blogging and how you can update or edit your blog using your smartphone and how a blog can be different from a static website.

What is a blog and how does blogging can help you and replace your website 

What is a blog?

A blog is a personal website or web page on which an individual records opinions, links to other sites, etc. on a regular basis.

A blog is a frequently updated online personal journal or diary. It is a place to express yourself to the world. A place to share your thoughts and your passions.

• A blog originally came from the word “weblog” or a “web log”.A blog is a type of website which has posts (or entries) appearing in reverse chronological order.
• A blog is a collection of content that is organized repetitively. This content can take the form of basic words (copy) as well as rich media (audio, video, and embeddable objects).
• A blog typically focuses on a particular subject matter for clarity, focus ( for readers ).
• A blog can be built by hand, manually through writing the post, uploading to a website via FTP, and then publishing.

To summarize a blog:

1. Blogs provide commenting system 
2. Updated almost daily
3. Articles appearing in reverse-chronological order
4. Frequently crawled by Search Engines
5. Often covers a wide variety of articles

What are different blogging platforms?

There are many blogging platforms in 2014. Out of those, here are few top most blogging platforms.

Wordpress : 

WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. We like to say that WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. WordPress powers more than 17% of the web - a figure that rises every day. Everything from simple websites, to blogs, to complex portals and enterprise websites, and even applications, are built with WordPress. WordPress combines simplicity for users and publishers with under-the-hood complexity for developers. This makes it flexible while still being easy-to-use.

Features : Simplicity, Built-in comments, Flexibility, SEO optimized, Easy to maintain and many more...

Create a Wordpress Blog or Website at www.wordpress.com.

Or you can download Wordpress to create a Website or Blog at www.wordpress.org/download/

Here is a screen shot of famous wordpress website /blog Mashable.com

Blogger :

Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was developed by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com. A user can have up to 100 blogs per account. Up until May 1, 2010, Blogger allowed users to publish blogs on other hosts, via FTP. All such blogs had (or still have) to be moved to Google's own servers, with domains other than blogspot.com allowed via custom URLs. Unlike WordPress, Blogger cannot be installed in a web server. One has to use DNS facilities to redirect a custom URL to a blogspot domain. (Easiest platform for newbies).

KUMARJEERU  is a blogger blog / website. 

Tumblr:

Tumblr (stylized in its logo as tumblr.) is a microblogging platform and social networking website founded by David Karp and owned by Yahoo! Inc. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users' blogs, as well as make their blogs private. Much of the website's features are accessed from the "dashboard" interface, where the option to post content and posts of followed blogs appear. As of July 1, 2014, Tumblr hosts over 192.9 million blogs. The company's headquarters is in New York City. Yahoo! announced its intention to acquire Tumblr on May 20, 2013, for approximately $1.1 billion. The deal closed on June 20, 2013.

Here is official Tumblr staff blog

What are the advantages of blogging?

Here are few advantages from blogging. I collected info from many sources and listed here below.

1. Quick and Easy to Start
2. Get a Better Job
3. Mastering a subject
4. Start a New BusinessGet
5. More Clients to Your Existing Business
6. Easy Integration
7. Marketing and Communication
8. Build an Online Body of Work
9. Thought Leadership
10. Become a Better Writer
11. Learn More About a Group of People
12. Get Immediate Feedback
13. Gain Influence
14. Establish Yourself as an Expert in Your Field
15. Build a Network
16. Ease in reaching out to a vast audience on the internet
17. Builds Credibility
18. High traffic with high page ranking
19. A Source of Income
20. Flexibility of working hours

Easy updation from your SmartPhone

Download WordPress app	Download Blogger app	Download Tumblr. app
For Android	For Android	For Android
For IOS	IOS	IOS
For Windows Phone	No official app (Some 3rd party apps are available)	For Windows Phone
For Blackberry	No official app (Some 3rd party apps are available)	For Blackberry

Here are three best websites for learning "how to blog?"

• Copy and paste the URL in new tab.

1. http://startbloggingonline.com/
2. http://amylynnandrews.com/how-to-blog/
3. http://impossiblehq.com/how-to-start-a-blog-guide

Here is a collection of links for blogging tips and tricks. You can bookmark this link. This post would be updated very frequently, so that you can get all latest blogging tips and tricks for a blogger blog from one single stop.

Intro to a blogger 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 cancreate one now.

To build a basic blogger blog you need to know the following things: 

Here is a collection of links from Support blogger help (Official website from blogger)

1. Getting started with a blogger blog:

• What browsers will support blogger blog? 
• Click here to know how to Create a blog, Dashboard, Overview, Write a post, Add an image, Add a video, Customize, Privacy and permissions 
• Click here to know about posting and editing . This explains you how to Delete a blog post, Link to other websites, How are line breaks treated?, About post templates, Find an old post, Compatible browser and operating systems, Limits on Blogger, How do I use the transliteration feature?, Blogger's post editor, Schedule posts, Edit posts, Create 'After the jump' summaries, Create a new page on your blog, Draft a post, Blogger Mobile, Quick Edit links, Changing default blogger template size, Adding author profile in blogger page 
• How to set up  a URL or weblink    is for your blog
• What is  navbar on the top of yout blogger blog's default template.

2. Administrative Settings: 

• "Listing" and "let search engines find your blog" settings
• Make money with your blog
• Limits on Blogger
• Increase traffic with SEO
• Export or import your blog
• Delete your blog
• Custom Domains
• Accessing a deceased person's account

3. Connect on a blogger: 

• Team Blogs, Authors, and Readers
• Feeds and Syndication
• Comments

4. Changing custom templates for your blog which suits according to your blog's category

These are the basic things you need to know about a blogger blog. 

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