Getting Started: 10 Successful Blogspot Blogging Steps

If you want to become a successful blogger, you should follow a system of steps in order to meet your desired goal.

Blogger wanna be can choose which blogging platform they will work on whether the self – hosted or the blogspot blogging where it costs you nothing from your pocket. To begin with, let’s consider the things to follow below.

1. Choose a good domain name or sub domain name.

Before you set up your blog, think first what you want to share and relate the name of your blog name to your blog content. I would recommend you to read this 6 things to remember in choosing a domain name or subdomain name (site address).

2. Create a blog with blogger.com

Once that you already picked a good sub-domain name, let’s start creating your own blog with blogger dot com. One of the requirements of creating a blogger or blogspot blog is a gmail account. Once already have that, follow the instructions from the video provided below.

3. Choose a good – looking blogger template.

Now that you have your blog set up, the next thing you do is to choose a professional looking blogger template.Because it grabs the first impression of your first time visitors of your blog.

There are many free blogger template on the internet but I would recommend you to visit eblogtemplates.com and btemplates.com then choose your desired professional template from these two sites and install it in your blog. Don’t worry about how you do it because they have the tutorials on it.

4. Create a favicon for your blog’s brand.

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.

5. Implement the Blogspot SEO Basics.

One of the important things that a blogger should not missed is the SEO which stands for Search Engine Optimization. This process would let your blog appear on some search engine result pages (serps).

That’s means, free traffic from search engine and this thing is what other bloggers really want to achieve.

To start with the basic SEO for blogspot blog, just put a meta tag in your blog. Meta tags are some line of codes that would be pasted in your blog that makes the search engine robots easily categorize and indexed your blog to their search directories.

To do this, open your blogger blog “Layout –> Edit HTML”. If you see many codes on it, you are on the right place. Now, scroll down a bit and you will see the head tag and a line of codes that looks like this; <head>

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 == &quot;item&quot;’>
<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 == &quot;http://YOUR BLOG NAME.blogspot.com&quot;’>

</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.

5. Create your about page.

About page is something that talks about yourself or your blog’s about. Most readers often read who is behind those great blog, so don’t missed it.

Make sure that you post what and why your readers must listen to you. This might crucial for you so be careful and put an effort into it.

6. Create your first post.

Your first post is what it means of inviting and welcoming those visitors in your newly launched blog. Be sure that it is more convincing and valuable.

7. Burn your feed at feedburner.com

What the heck is a feed? Well… a feed is a web document that usually ends a file extension .xml or .rss and it is a slimmed-down version of a website that is created to be easily syndicated.

To start with, go to feedburner.com. Once you are on the page, you can see a bolded text or sentence, “Burn a feed right this instant.” right below on it, you can a rectangular box and put your blog url on it then press next. Just follow the instructions follows.

After you set up, offer an email and RSS subscription in your blog.

8. Create 3 or more post in your blog.

Creating more valuable posts in your blog is one of requirements of some blog directories for approval. Make sure that it is useful for your readers so that they will likely want to come back in your blog again.

9. Submit your blog in some blog directories.

Blog directories would help your blog to submit your blog in many search engine on the internet instead of submitting it manually.

I would recommend you to submit your blog on these 3 biggest search engine on the internet namely; yahoo, bing and google. After that, visit this site and submit your blog’s url. http://www.submit.theseosoul.com/

10. Join social media and invite your friends.

Now that you have your blog launched, don’t make it suffer from loneliness where no one visited it. As a blogger, your duty is to drive traffic or visitors to your blog.

One of the great source of traffic is the social media websites like facebook and twitter. Login to your facebook or twitter account and start inviting your friends.

Conclusions and Tips.

Blogging is just a series repetitive routine of activities. Once your blogging techniques works then just wash and rinse then repeat it again.

I hope this article helps you and good luck to your blogging career. To make sure that you don’t missed any single information from this blog, I encourage you to subscribe via RSS or email above.

Regards,

- Felix Albutra

About Felix

Felix Albutra is a 24 - year old blogger and online entrepreneur. He blogs about money making system, blogging ideas and tips and the likes. Learn more about him and the rest that can help you. www.bloggingaccess.com

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