10 Things to Do After Creating Your Blogger Blog

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We can’t deny the fact that most new bloggers used blogger/blogspot blogging format rather than wordpress.

One of the reasons is that blogger platform is easy to manipulate and also a free program owned by google.

Now if you already have a blogger/blogspot blog, take note of these 10 things to do after creating your blogger blog.

1. Choose a professional looking blogger template.

We humans love to see beautiful things and if you’ve got a beautiful theme in your blog, your visitors would stick into it some of their time.

Having a good – looking blog can capture your first time visitors and would love to explore what is in your blog. Your theme also reflects what is inside in your blog and most people show their first impression into it.

2. Create a favicon in your blogger blog.

Favicon is an icon image that represents your blog’s brand. You can see a favicon in more websites you visit in the left side the site’s URL adress.

To create one, open your blogger blog “Layout –> Edit HTML”. If you already here, you can see many codes on it. Now, scroll down a bit and you will see the head tag and a line of codes that looks like this;

<head>

<b:include data=’blog’ name=’all-head-content’/>

Under those codes, paste this code.

<link href=’YOUR IMAGE HERE’ rel=’icon’/>

Then change the word ‘YOUR IMAGE HERE’ with your image url address then save it.

3. Optimize your blogger template codes for search engines.

One of the SEO basic is having a meta tags in your blog. Now, what the heck is a meta tags? Hmmm… meta tags is a piece of codes that search engine crawlers and spiders used it to categorized your blog’s content.

To create a meta tag for your blog, paste this lines of codes in your blog’s layout page. Just like the place you put your favicon.

To make sure that you won’t get an error, I suggest that you paste this whole codes till you see the broken lines.

<b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType == "item"’>
<title><data:blog.pageName/> | <data:blog.title/></title>

<b:else/>

<title>Make Easy Money with Paid to Click Business</title>

<meta content=’YOUR BLOG DESCRIPTION HERE’ name=’description’/>
<meta content=’YOUR KEYWORDS HERE!’ name=’keywords’/>

</b:if>
<b:if cond=’data:blog.url == "http://YOUR BLOG NAME.blogspot.com"’>

</b:if>

<!– place future descriptions and keywords here –>
<b:skin><![CDATA[/*

The first line of the code above already have the SEO secret techniques that most blogs have. So you will search for more information about meta tags.

4. Create your about me page.

About me page is one of the most important content in your blog. People love to know who is the person behind your blog. Also tell them why they should listen to you.

Don’t try to expose your whole bio like sharing your personal life. Just tell them what you can share to them using your blog.

5. Create your at least 5 quality post.

Creating at least 5 quality post serves as your bait that your blog looks like it was already exist long ago. So if you invite your first visitors, they can get more information from it.

6. Register an account on feedburner.

Feedburner is a program that also owned by google and you can also use it for free. After creating an account, burn a feed for your blog.

To do this, login your feedburner account and Right after logging in, you can see a bolded text “Burn a feed right this instant” right after the phrase, paste your blog’s URL and click “Next”.

7. Optimize your blog’s design.

In optimizing your blog, you edit and put your desired and usable widgets in your blog’s space. This will also add points to your professionalism as a blogger. To have a clue on what widget you would paste in your blog, just visit other professional blogs in your niche. As an example, you can paste your facebook fan page and twitter widget in your sidebar.

Remember to not overdo it or it will distract your reader’s attention and not in your blog content.

8. Submit your blog to some blog directories.

Blog directories are websites that collects blogs or other websites. Submitting a blog to this directories, can help your blog’s visibility to other internet users. You might also noticed that your blog also will be rank.

To find these blog submission directories, just open google.com and type “blog submission websites” then you will see the list of blog that have the list of blog submission directories.

But before doing that, I suggest you to submit your blog on Blog Catalog and My Blog Log first.

9. Join Social Media

Social media is a good source of potential targeted traffic because people who are not aware of what you discussed or talked in your blog will know about its information.

One of the popular social media websites these days is facebook.com where it surpassed google’s traffic in US alone. Make more friends in facebook and grab them to your site. Make sure that you’ve a good content in your site to make them impress what information you have shared.

10. Join related forums.

Making friends with like – minded people could help you to be recognized by other people in your blogging niche. Make friends with them and share useful information you have.

If you also have some questions regarding some matters that you don’t know about in your niche, you can also ask some help from them.

In joining your related forums, build your credibility first before you try to drag them to your site. Or try not to tell them to visit your blog, just share the useful things that could benefit to them and they will likely want to visit your page on that through your signature.

My words.

These 10 tips above is I think you should do in order especially if you start a new blogger or blogspot blog.

If you find that there’s lacking, then it’s your turn to share it in the comment section.

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How To Become A Successful Blogspot Blogger
June 1, 2010 12:47 PM

17 Comments Add yours

Vishal Sanjay
May 29, 2010
2:27 pm #comment-1

Wonderful post dude, they say that you always need a self hosted blog in order to be successful, but your story has changed that view for me, this is a wonderful resource for bloggers.
.-= Vishal Sanjay´s last blog ..Top 9 viral marketing success stories of the decade =-.

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admin
May 30, 2010
1:14 am #comment-2

I was also inspired by other successful blogspot bloggers out there that also competes in a high competitive keyword term “make money online”. In fact, he did push his blog in the number one spot on google serps.

If you don’t know him, he is Alan Liew of moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com

- admin
.-= admin´s last blog ..10 Things to Do After Creating Your Blogger Blog =-.

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Nasrul Hanis
May 31, 2010
2:04 am #comment-3

Yeah, we can’t deny the fact that some great bloggers are using Blogspot but for me using WordPress is more easier and helpful as we could optimize our blogs and contents through various plguins and functions.

Then I guess the next steps such as bookmarking and getting traffic – quite same for any type of websites.

However I believe different bloggers got different opinions and passions in using the platform for blogging and how they want to blog – and I’m also inspired by Alan Liew too!

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admin
May 31, 2010
2:59 am #comment-4

Thanks for jumping it Nasrul,

I wander why those money earners blogspot blog don’t switch to wordpress where they already got their to purchase a hosting plan and a custom domain.

- admin
.-= admin´s last blog ..10 Things to Do After Creating Your Blogger Blog =-.

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Ileane from Ms. Ileane's Blog
June 2, 2010
10:02 am #comment-5

Hey Felix, thanks for visiting my blog and explaining #3 in more detail for me. I think I need to change my favicon AND add my meta tags asap. Also I would like to suggest a great forum for bloggers and webmasters to join. Lisa Irby has a forum called Website Babble and I think that everyone can benefit from joining. http://websitebabble.com

Great post!
.-= Ileane @ Ms. Ileane’s Blog´s last blog ..Google I/O 2010 For Dummies =-.

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admin
June 3, 2010
3:08 am #comment-6

Burning a feed in SEO? What do you mean my friend.
.-= admin´s last blog ..10 Things to Do After Creating Your Blogger Blog =-.

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Martin
June 17, 2010
7:08 am #comment-7

Great post again. These will all be very helpful when I start mine. Thank you!

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esoftload
June 22, 2010
11:30 pm #comment-8

another great post admin.. can i can my favicon in blogger as i am using adsense?? i have heard that google may close adsense account if changing favicon in blogger.

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admin
June 22, 2010
11:46 pm #comment-9

Hello my friend. Don’t believe what are people are saying. Blogger/blogspot blog is highly customizable. Using a favicon in blogspot blog is I think won’t violate the TOS of Blogger.com.

I’ve been a blogspot user for more than a year and I used favicon on my blog. But in some cases, you can check the Terms and Conditions of blogger.com for more information and references.

- admin

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ack O from JCheap Auto Insurance
August 10, 2010
5:25 pm #comment-10

This is my first visit to http://www.bloggingaccess.com/10-things-to-do-after-creating-blogger-blog/. We are starting a new initiative in the same niche as this blog. Your blog provided us with important information to work on. You have done a admirable job.

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admin
August 11, 2010
12:05 am #comment-11

Thanks for the visit. I really appreciate your effort.

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seph from engine optimization
December 29, 2010
1:21 pm #comment-12

This is a great list. I would add one thing, which is, to allot a specific amount of time in your day to working on your blog. I find that time is a challenge for many small business owners and since a blog is a brand new time commitment they often fall prey to the “I’ll get to it later” syndrome.

I find it’s more effective to schedule dedicated time for it into your day – this way it has a fighting chance to grow and flourish and be fully integrated into your daily business activities.Thanks for this post,wish you the best.
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- Felix
  December 30, 2010
  12:34 am #comment-13
  
  Very well said Seph. Time management is really a great factor to success, whether is an offline or online business. Thank you very much for your time visiting my blog. I really appreciate it.
  
  - Felix
  
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smithd from volunteer guatemala
October 8, 2011
8:32 am #comment-14

Thanks for your insightful article and inspiring choises.Love reading your article & will share with many.

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mark from Dental Advertising
October 11, 2011
10:03 am #comment-15

I personally think that the way lesswrong.com does it is perfect…

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hasan
October 25, 2011
7:26 pm #comment-16

thanks man

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Marcel
October 26, 2011
11:33 pm #comment-17

I personally use wordpress and I used joomla etc before. I think wordpress is easier to edit. I did some research with Favicon and found out that a more well designed favicon decreased the bounce rate. I used a golf swing design rather than a simple design on one of my golf websites and i saw the change. So thanks for sharing that info. All the best.

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