How to create your personal blogsite for free using blogger blogspot

Blogging for beginners

Hey! Welcome to how to start your own blog for beginners using the blogger free hosting and domain called blogspot. In these articles you are going to learn and understand the basics of setting up your personal Blogspot blog site in less than 10minutes.

Let's begin….

First let's understand what a blog is? Understanding the difference between a blog posts and a commercial or an ecommerce site is really important for start-up bloggers. Blogging is simply a platform for writers to express themselves about a topic they probably love and have a depth knowledge or average knowledge of.

So, running a blog is totally different from running an ecommerce site although you may probably want to add some plugins like Ecwid to enable you sell or provide minor e-commerce services via your blog site, still that doesn't make it a full e-commerce website.

Now let's get down to the sole aim of this article is to help you set up your own blog site using blogger blogspot.

I will break down the process into simple and easy steps using simple and understandable sentences as possible.

Step one

Go to the website URL www.blogger.com. the blogger home page is going to open, looking just like this 👇.

Step two

Click on create to start your membership process.you will be required to sign up  with your Google mail account of which I would advise you sign up with a Google account connected to your proposed blog by these I mean sign up with the email account you would want to receive notifications mails on, this will help you sort out and keep a good stats and follow ups. Here is an image of what the sign up looks like 👇

Step three

After signing up, a new page will load up just like this one below 👇

Just click on the create new blog to start creating your new blog. 

Here is what the pop up page looks like when you click on the create new blog👇

           

All you have to do is click on any of the template samples which is also known as themes provided below the title and the address bar. 

Just type in the name of your blog ( this is the title of your blog not the URL address), when people go to your blog site the title or name they will see on the blog. Check the image samples below 👇

Here John affiliates is the blog's title.

iKnow EVERYDAY blog is the title of this Blog.

Next is choosing a recognized and easy URL address for your blog. A simple and easy to go URL is very important because it will help you in terms of search engine optimization ( SEO). Here is what a URL looks like_ " www.johnaffiliates.blogspot.com, these is the URL address of this blogsite you are on now. You too can come up with a URL address that fits with your blog title.

Next step? Bumm… welcome to your new blogsite you can click on post on the sidebar on your blogger dashboard and click on create new post on the loaded page to start your blogging experience.

Thank you for staying through to the end of the article.