Blogger Basics (Tutorial) How to Create Blog on Blogspot

Due to Lot of changes day by day in Blogger.com interface and its features, it comes in my mind I should update this article for providing exact and updated information abouthow to create blog on blogger.com (blogspot) with new interface and tell you about its best features to get well experience and most out.

Check Out the Best features you should know about blogger.com

Blogger Basics

Launched in 1999, Blogger, Google Service, is a great way to create your own blog to start. Blogger completely free with free hosting.

Blogger is for:
To share your thoughts, photos, and more with friends and the world.
Easy to deploy text, images and videos and the Internet or from your mobile phone.
Unlimited resilience to customize your blog with themes, tools, and more. There is also some site which provides online blogging courses from which you will learn complete blogging, how do I blog and start make money from your blog with traffic and the help of SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

How to Create Blog on Blogger (Blogspot) New Interface

Step 1: Sign Up for a Google Account

You will need a Google account to build your own blog on Blogger. If you already have one, you do not need to create a new account, simply follow these steps.

Step 2: Go to Blogger.com then Sign In

How to create blog on blogger new interface

Just Simply Add Your Blog Title in the Title Field i.e. An Island for Blogging Tips and Tricks

and Insert Your blog URL address in the second field i.e. my-personal-photo .blogspot.com

In last select any theme from the templates section and click on the Create Blog Button.

finally you have created your free blog on blogger and thereafter its take you to Blogger dashboard. check the following screenshot

Blogger Dashboard New Interface

Enable Meta Description for  Blogger Blog

This is the major issue which is mostly avoided by newbie and they still don’t know what is it. but after lot of changes in Search Engines algorithm and SEO factors this information must be shared with all blogspot user to enable meta description for your blogspot blog and every post.

How to enable meta tags description in blogspot

Note : After making enable this feature you can add meta description to your every blogger post from post settings.

How to Write Post in Blogger.com

Some newcomers still unaware how to create post in blogger because I have found and notified some blogger are creating pages instead of blog post. Check the above screenshots there is an orange button of New Post click on it and you will see the following page where you have to write your article or any post for your blog.

How to Create Post in Blogger new interface

As i have mentioned above about meta description, after enabling this feature as stated above, there will be another option in Post setting tab of Search Description where you have to describe search engines what you have written means a small description for search engines i.e. Google, Yahoo, Bing etc. about Your written post.

Creating Writing Tips for Blogging

Add Blog Description

You can easily add or change your Blog title and add brief description for your blog. Check this screenshot

How to Change Blog Title and Description in Blogger

Fix Duplicate Meta Description in Blogger

How To Create Page on Blogger

Check the Following Screenshot for creating pages on Blogger Blog.

How to create pages in Blogger

Check Traffic Stats in Blogger Dashboard

For checking blog traffic you don’t have to use third-party tool or any other stats website, Just use your Blogger Dashboard and check all out stats of your blog. Go to Stats tab and check traffic sources, traffic per post, audiences location easily from single click.

How to Check Blogspot Traffic Stats

5 Tips to Improve Your SEO with Help of Social Media

Most of us connect SEO (search engine optimization) only with content marketing. There’s no doubt that fresh & unique content has an important role in boosting SEO of any website, but now there are different other options also which can help to take your SEO to the top.
Majority of SEO experts consider social network websites as something completely different from Search engine marketing. Of course, you can run a separate social media campaign, but you can ask any SEO expert that to get the best results you need to produce an excellent combination of SEO and social media websites.

Read:-  Google v/s Bing: how SEO differ for both?

5 Tips to Improve Your SEO with Help of Social Media

Your domain authority and brand’s popularity will increase with help a good social media & SEO campaign. Here are 5 tips which will help you to dominate social media websites.

Create A Huge Following For Your Brand

Social media following is considered by for domain authority. For instance, if your business’s page has 10,000 followers on Twitter and 10,000 likes on Facebook then you’ll surely be given higher search rankings and higher authority compared to a competitor company that has 100 followers and 100 likes. By engaging with your audience directly and by regularly posting relevant material, you can easily build your following. Remember, Google can identify, whether your likes and followers are real or spam.

Read:- Most Important SEO Tools for Bloggers

Content Sharing Should Be Priority

Social media websites provide an amazing opportunity to increase the reach of your high quality content. For example, if you have written a blog or article about your brand then just by posting it on social media platforms you can share it with thousands of followers. This way you’ll earn more traffic and get more attention for your website.

Optimize Your Post Keeping Search Engines In Mind

In 2015, Google and Twitter became partners in some sectors, so now your tweets will appear in Google search results. So, it will be a lot better if you optimise your posts to increase their chances of showing up on search results pages. This can be easily achieved by including targeted keywords that tend to bring in more traffic than usual.

Read :-  The real value of mobile optimized content

Publish Viral Content To Get More Shares

An important factor contributing to your domain authority is the number of retweets and shares you get on social media. For instances, if a particular post which you have shared on social media platforms receives 1,000 retweets or shares then it will increase not only your reputation, but rankings as well. So, you need to create viral content that can go viral easily.

Interact More With Brands That Can Help In Your Business

While planning to optimise your website for local searches, you need to interact with brands that can help in your business on various social media platforms. Search for businesses or companies in your neighborhood or in industries where you operate. This will surely help you in your SEO campaign.

How i Add Read More Button in Blogger Post

You have write an article about more than 1000 words after publishing it You have seen that your blogger page is completely full of your post so let we learn how to break your post on main page. As you have already seen on blogs that after few line post there is button of read more so in this post I want to tell you how to Insert Read More Button In Blogger Post because once I was new blogger I was also not aware about it but now I have seen such template are designed and that’s are already designed like we don’t have to use Insert jump break. 

Why we should use Read More Button in Blogger Post.

It is my own thinking, if you put read more button in your blogger post your visitors will stay more time on blog. Because for reading every post they have to use you read more button and they find you have write such a wonderful and useful article for your visitors they try to explore more your blog.

So now we learn how to insert Read More Button in Blogger

When you are making such article in the blogger post editor there are such tools for formatting your post. After writing few lines or wherever you want click on insert jump break as per image shown below.

It will make your article to Read More and also you can use your own image to at the place of read more button.

Insert Custom Image Button instead of Read More in Blogger Post

Here I will tell you how you can add custom image instead of Read More Text for making your blog more beautiful. Follow this

Go to Blogger Dashboard > Template > Edit HTML > check on Expand Widget Templates

find the following code

<a expr:href=’data:post.url + “#more”‘>Read More </a>

Leave it here and now you have to upload you an image which you will have to use for Read More Button, simply upload it on your blogger and copy link location

Use this code and replace red text with Image URL in below code

<img border=”0″ src=”Paste here the button Image URL“/>

Its will look like this

<img border=”0″ src=”http://your-image-url.com/your-image.jpg“/>

This is the last stage now code which you find in Blogger template

<a expr:href=’data:post.url + “#more”‘>Read More </a>

Replace the READ MORE with the image code like this

<a expr:href=’data:post.url + “#more”‘><img border=”0″ src=”http://your-image-url.com/your-image.jpg”/></a>

How to SEO Optimize Blogger Comments

I tutored about optimizing blogger labels and thus, in this tutorial I’ll address optimizing blogger comments. Comments are very important for a blog because they are crawled by search engines. So if a blog is having a lot of comments from the visitors then it is a very good thing. Google and other search engines give importance to the websites or blogs which’s posts are commented the most. This shows the popularity and usefulness of a blog. But when people leave bad links in their comments, this becomes a headache for the blogger as well as for search engines. Bad links in comments can destroy your blog and SEO. In general, we keep comments links as nofollow. And nofollow means, we instruct the search engine’s crawler to not crawl the link inside comments, but crawl only the content of the comment.

This is the best practice, because you can’t give dofollow external links to the commentators. This reduce your Page Rank and can harm your blog’s SEO. By default now many platforms including WordPress add nofollow HTML attribute to the comment links, but in Blogger there isn’t this setting available  But we can do it manually by ourselves.

How to optimize Blog’s comments?

Now here is a simple solution for getting rid of this problem. You’ll just have to add an HTML attribute to the comments part of HTML section of your blog. Follow steps below:

1. Login to your blog
2. Template >> HTML >> Proceed >> Check the Expand Widget Templates
3. Now find below piece of code by using CTRL+F

expr:href=’data:post.createLinkUrl’

Just replace the above code with given code below:

rel=’external nofollow’ expr:href=’data:post.createLinkUrl’

Save your template and you’re almost done!

What we did?

We just added a rel=’external nofollow’ attribute to the comments of the visitors, so now search engines won’t follow the links inside comments. You can only use rel=’nofollow’ but the external nofollow is better then only nofollow, because sometimes you can insert links indicating to your blog’s other pages, so they will be followed by search engines and the rest won’t be.

Your Turn:
I’m trying my best to resolve all the issues you’re facing while working on blogger, so let me know if you have questions regarding this tutorial… Stay happy and peaceful.