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What is a Blog?
Blog is a word derived from "weblog".Usually Blog is a website owned by a person or a small organisation where they share their ideas or the information they have. A bog may be public or it may be private.Usually, today we can find blog related to every topic. A blog is very effective way to share info or ideas because it is reachable to a large number of people.
So, I think you might have understood the concept of a blog,so now we can move to next...
What is Blogger?
Blogger is a free service provided by Google to it's users to make and publish a blog for free.It was acquired by Google from Pyra Labs in 2003.It is hosted on servers of Google and we get a default web address from blogger is example.blogspot.com You can find more about blogger history but I'm not going deep to blogger's history.Benefit of using blogger:
By Clicking on Create your blog you will be asked to select your Gmail ID on which you will be asked to create your blog.So just select your your Email ID and then you will be redirected to a page where you will be asked modify your blogger profile. So,if you want to make some changes in your blogger profile you can easily do everything on that page. After completing all your stuff click on the save button to save changes and then click on continue to blogger button and you will be on your blogger dashboard which looks like,
1. Free of Cost
2. Easy to use
3. Easily customizable
4. Fastest loading speed.
5. Suitable for Beginners
How to make an account on Blogger?
For making your account on blogger you just need a Google account and you will be able to sign up for blogger. For signing up go to Blogger.com and click on the Create Your Blog,
Then you will be able to see many options on sidebar on which one option is posts. So simply click on it and you then you can see a button create new post . Here,you can see your post editing area where you can add your text,images,videos and much more to customize your blog post.
So, just write your blog post and click on publish button and your post will be published on your blog. You can see your post by clicking on the view post icon to view your blog post.
So, now you have created and published your first blog post successfully.
Sidebar options:
Stats option:
If you click on the stats provided in the sidebar of blogger then you will be able to see the visits and views on your blog.It usually shows us from where the visits are coming from and many more information to analyse traffic on our blog.This will help us to write more optimized content for our mainstream traffic.
Comments option:
The option right below the stats option we can see the comments option in the sidebar of our blogger. When we click on this option then we can see all the comments that are on our posts. Although there are also some advanced option for comments which can be found in the setting option.
Earnings Option:
We can also see the earnings option under the comments option in our blogger.This is option is for monetizing our blog with google adsense ads and hence we can earn ads revenue from the traffic on our blog. Here you can easily connect adsense with your blog and apply for adsense approval. Once they have reviewed your website and you got approval from adsense to show ads on your blog you can easily place adsense ads code in your blog.
Pages option:
Below the earnings option you can see a pages option placed on your sidebar.This option is useful if you want to add some pages to your blog such as privacy policy,contact us,about us...
This pages will keep our posts safe from intermixing of our posts with some of these pages.
Layout Option:
You can also see the layout option placed on the fifth place in your sidebar.This option in bloggers lets you to do some customization to your blog differs on which theme or template you are using.You can learn more about layout when you use this option.This is in a easily understandable format.
Theme Option:
In the theme option you can easily find and customize your blog completely by editing HTML file. On this page you can also change theme provided by blogger and restore your previous theme from backup file.
Settings Option:
The settings option in the sidebar helps you to customize the title,description,favicon and much more for your blog. You can also add some meta tags and other content required for improving SEO for your blog.
That was all your stuff for understanding your blogger sidebar.
This was our guide for creating and publishing your first blog. We also learnt about the options available in blogger sidebar. We will be doing so many customization
to our blog in coming tutorials.
To learn more about blogs and blogging keep connected with Learn Web Online till then...
Happy Koding.....
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