Do you have many thoughts and opinions about life that you think the world can benefit from, then start a personal blog and share it...
If everybody in this world can start a personal blog, the world will be a better place. Your unique experience can greatly help somebody who is about to go through a similar experience.
In this article, i,m going to show you how to create a personal blog for free so that you can start sharing your thoughts or experience with the world. It will surprise you to know that its very easy to create a personal blog.This explains why there are many bloggers and blogs in existence today.Improvement in technology has made life easy-peasy for us (the 21st century humans). Nowadays anybody with a computer and an internet connection can easily create a personal blog (including your grand mom lol) thanks to the availability of the blogging platforms.
The blogging platforms provides free web design templates which makes it possible for anybody to create a blog with just few clicks of a mouse (without typing any code). It will surprise you to know that even with zero computer knowledge, it didn't take me up to 6 minutes to create this beautiful blog. I,m not joking!.
Ok let,s get down to business so that you can see exactly what i,m talking about....
Step 1. Go to the dashboard (admin area) of your blog. Like i told you before, that is where you will be carrying out your blogging activities. I already showed you how to access the dashboard (the admin area) of your blog.
Step 2. After arriving at the dashboard of your blog, just click on the New Post link OR Create a new post as shown in the screenshot below to go to the Blogger editor .
Blogger editor is the area of the blogger dashboard where you will be writing and publishing posts on your blog. The blogger editor is very similar to the Microsoft word editor program. So if you already know how to format a document in Microsoft word then it will be very easy for you to use the blogger editor.
Below is the picture of the blogger editor.
For example to make group of text bold in the blogger editor, you just need to highlight the texts and then click on the B icon found in the tool bar.
Ok now let,s write our first post.
To write and publish your first post using the blogger editor, you just need to enter the title of your post and then write the posts in the description area. After you are done, just click on the publish button and your post will be published.
Switch to the frontend section of your blog to view the post.
Congratulation! you are now a blogger. Welcome to the blogging club.
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In this article, i,m going to show you how to create a personal blog for free so that you can start sharing your thoughts or experience with the world. It will surprise you to know that its very easy to create a personal blog.This explains why there are many bloggers and blogs in existence today.Improvement in technology has made life easy-peasy for us (the 21st century humans). Nowadays anybody with a computer and an internet connection can easily create a personal blog (including your grand mom lol) thanks to the availability of the blogging platforms.
The blogging platforms provides free web design templates which makes it possible for anybody to create a blog with just few clicks of a mouse (without typing any code). It will surprise you to know that even with zero computer knowledge, it didn't take me up to 6 minutes to create this beautiful blog. I,m not joking!.
Ok let,s get down to business so that you can see exactly what i,m talking about....
What should i write about?
Its funny that many people who are interested in how to create a personal blog, don,t even know what to write about LOL. Whenever i ask people who want to start a blog, what they want to write about, they immediately start stammering. To easily determine what to write about, ask yourself this simple question...
What am i good at?
If you have a particular experience or knowledge that you think should be shared with the world, a personal blog is the perfect place to do it!.
Do you excel in the kitchen? then start a food blog! are your friends always asking you for fashion advice or beauty tips? Perhaps fashion blogging is the way to go, are you the person that everybody in your neighborhood always run to for marital or relationship advice?? start a relationship advice blog, do your friends always come to you for parenting advice? start a mommy blog to help the first time moms. Did you survive the dreadful and incurable disease called cancer, HIV AIDS, Ebola etc, start a personal blog to share your unique experience with the world. There are millions of people out there still battling with the deadly disease and they will be very happy to know what you ate, drank or read that solved your problem. Help them out by creating a personal blog to share your experience. What are you good at???? start a blog and educate the world about that.
To be able to create a personal blog for free on the Blogger.com platform, you must understand what themes or blog templates are (what they are used for).
Where to create a Personal Blog for Free (Blogging platforms)
This is a question i get asked almost every day by my blog readers.
Blogs are created on what we call blogging platforms (sites). Nowadays, there are two types of blogging platforms which include;
- The Free Blogging Platforms and
- The Paid blogging Platforms
1) Free blogging platforms (sites) are web sites that will enable you to start a blog for free on their web server i.e. without you spending a dime. Those free blogging platforms (sites) will offer you a free web hosting space on their server and also give you a free sub web address so that you can create a blog without spending a penny. In addition to that, the free blogging sites also provides free web design templates which makes it possible for computer novice like you and i, to create a personal blog with just few clicks of a mouse i.e. without typing any code.
Nowadays there are lots of free blogging platforms but the most popular and also the best free blogging platforms include;
Of all the free blogging sites (platforms) mentioned above, Blogger (blogger.com) is the best free blogging site due to the following reasons...
Nowadays there are lots of free blogging platforms but the most popular and also the best free blogging platforms include;
Of all the free blogging sites (platforms) mentioned above, Blogger (blogger.com) is the best free blogging site due to the following reasons...
- The Blogger.com platform offers a free web address like yourdomainname.blogspot.com and also makes it possible for you to link your own registered (custom) domain name to your blog i.e. if you don,t want to use the free ugly .blogspot.com web address anymore.
- Blogger.com offers unlimited bandwidth; which means that even if 1 billion people visit your personal blog per day or per month, you won,t be asked to pay a dime. Other free blogging platforms (sites) like Wordpress.com will ask you to upgrade from the free plan to the premium (paid) plan after your blog starts receiving huge amount of web traffic. After you have upgraded to the premium plan, you will be expected to pay atleast $12 per month for Wordpress.com to continue hosting your blog even if you are not making money from your personal blog.
- The Blogger.com platform makes it possible for bloggers to customize or change the appearance or design of their blogs while other free blogging platforms like wordpress.com doesn,t allow bloggers to make any changes on the design or appearance of their blogs.
- Blogs created on the Blogger.com platform are more search engine friendly than blogs hosted on other free blogging platforms (sites). Since the Blogger.com blogging platform is owned by the Google company, your blog posts will be easily indexed and quickly displayed in the Google search results for more people to visit your personal blog.
- Blogger.com also makes it possible for bloggers to make money online from their blogs through the Google Adsense pay per click advertisement partnership program. Other free blogging sites like WordPress.com won,t allow you to monetize your personal blog unless you upgrade to the premium plan. Instead the Wordpress.com company will be the one making money from your blog by displaying ads on your blog while you do all the hardwork of blogging and driving traffic to your blog.
- Above all, its extremely easy to create a blog on the Blogger platform. This explains why there are thousands of blogspot.com blogs today. With just few clicks of a mouse anybody can create a personal blog at the blogger platform for free. I think this is the advantage that has made Blogger.com the most popular and also the best free blogging site.
What you need to know before creating a personal blog.
To be able to create a personal blog for free on the Blogger.com platform, you must understand what themes or blog templates are (what they are used for).
Blogs are created on the Blogger platform using Themes (also known as web design templates).
What is a Blog Template or a Theme???
Blog templates (also known as Themes) are ready made (pre-built) designs of websites or blogs which you can install on your blog to give it a completely new look or appearance.
When i earlier told you that i was able to create this beautiful blog with zero computer knowledge, i,m very sure that you must have wondered how i managed to designed the beautiful layout of this blog and include all the sophisticated features you see on this blog without any knowledge about web designing.
Like i told you before, i didn,t do anything that can really warrant me to boast or brag that i,m the person who designed this beautiful blog.
Like i told you before, blogs are created on the blogger platforms using Blog templates (also known as themes)
Once you have created an account on the blogger platform, you will be asked to choose a blog template or theme; which will determine how your personal blog will look like (i.e. its layout, background color, text fonts). Your choosen blog template will also determine the types of features your blog will have.
Nowadays, there are blog templates (themes) for almost every kind of topic (subject) you can imagine...there are Mommy blog themes, News blog themes, personal blog templates, food blog themes, fashion blog themes, music blog themes, Tech blog themes, eCommerce themes etc
You just need to choose a theme or a design template which suit your niche (the topic of your blog), install it on your blog and start blogging. For example i choose the Magone blogger template because its a template specifically designed for the news blog. If the niche of your blog is fashion, then a fashion theme (template) will be suitable for your blog.
If you wan,t your blog to look exactly like mine, you just need to install a similar theme (the magone template) on your blog and boom! your blog will look exactly like mine without you typing any code. Blogger templates are just like clothes LOL. They have made life easy-peasy for technophobes like you and i. We don,t need to type any code (scratch off our wig) before creating a blog. The hardworking web programmers have designed beautiful templates for us to use.
I can still change the look of my blog by installing another web design template or theme on this blog. There are thousands of web design templates (themes) both free and paid ones on the internet.
Blog templates (also known as Themes) are ready made (pre-built) designs of websites or blogs which you can install on your blog to give it a completely new look or appearance.
When i earlier told you that i was able to create this beautiful blog with zero computer knowledge, i,m very sure that you must have wondered how i managed to designed the beautiful layout of this blog and include all the sophisticated features you see on this blog without any knowledge about web designing.
Like i told you before, i didn,t do anything that can really warrant me to boast or brag that i,m the person who designed this beautiful blog.
Like i told you before, blogs are created on the blogger platforms using Blog templates (also known as themes)
Once you have created an account on the blogger platform, you will be asked to choose a blog template or theme; which will determine how your personal blog will look like (i.e. its layout, background color, text fonts). Your choosen blog template will also determine the types of features your blog will have.
Nowadays, there are blog templates (themes) for almost every kind of topic (subject) you can imagine...there are Mommy blog themes, News blog themes, personal blog templates, food blog themes, fashion blog themes, music blog themes, Tech blog themes, eCommerce themes etc
You just need to choose a theme or a design template which suit your niche (the topic of your blog), install it on your blog and start blogging. For example i choose the Magone blogger template because its a template specifically designed for the news blog. If the niche of your blog is fashion, then a fashion theme (template) will be suitable for your blog.
If you wan,t your blog to look exactly like mine, you just need to install a similar theme (the magone template) on your blog and boom! your blog will look exactly like mine without you typing any code. Blogger templates are just like clothes LOL. They have made life easy-peasy for technophobes like you and i. We don,t need to type any code (scratch off our wig) before creating a blog. The hardworking web programmers have designed beautiful templates for us to use.
I can still change the look of my blog by installing another web design template or theme on this blog. There are thousands of web design templates (themes) both free and paid ones on the internet.
Ok now that you have mastered the basics of blogging, let,s get down to business.
Like i told you before its going to take you just 6 minutes to create a personal blog and it won,t cost you anything to create a personal blog on the blogger platform.
Lets get started.
How To Create a Personal blog for free.
Like i told you before, we are going to create a blog on the blogger.com platform (site) because it is the best free blogging site. Ok let,s get started...What you need to start a blog for free at Blogger.com
The only thing you will need in order to create a personal blog for free at blogger.com, is ....
Ok let,s get started.
- A Google Account ( also known as Gmail account i.e. youremail.gmail.com). If you haven,t created a Google account, go to the Google account sign up page and create a Google account. Its free!. If you can create a Facebook account then you can also create a Google account. To create a Google account, you just need to fill the Google account sign up form with the required information and boom! your Google account will be created. You can then proceed to the next step.
After creating your Google account, follow the simple procedures below to create your own personal blog. Like i said before, it wont take you more than 6 minutes to create a beautiful personal blog at the blogger platform.
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- Let me also make it clear that I AM NOT A WEB PROGRAMMER. So don,t expect me to explain or use the big web design jargons in this post. I,m only going to tell you all the things i did to create my blog. So just do whatever i tell you to do and your blog will be created. Don,t ask me how or why.
Ok let,s get started.
Steps to create a personal blog at Blogger.com.
STEP 1. After you have created your Google account, Click here--->>www.blogger.com to go to the Blogger platform. Like i said before you are Going to create a personal blog on the blogger platform; which is the best free blogging site.
STEP 2. After arriving at the Blogger website, click on the CREATE YOUR BLOG button as shown in the screenshot below.
STEP 3. After clicking on that button, you will be expected to sign into the Google account.
STEP 4.CREATE A GOOGLE PLUS PROFILE
Click on the blue link labelled Create a Google + profile to create a Google + profile. Your Google plus profile is just a brief info about yourself which will be displayed at the About Me section of your blog. Some of your blog readers may likely want to know the name and sex of the author of the personal blog they are reading. When they click on the About me link, they will be able to see your name, sex and also view a little avatar image of yourself.
Just enter your name and your sex....
NEXT, click on CREATE PROFILE as shown in the screenshot below...
If you want to upload a photo (an avatar image) of yourself, just click on the Camera icon and select a pic from your Computer. If you won,t like to upload a pic, just click SKIP to proceed to proceed to the next step...
After you have done that,you will arrive at this page.
STEP 5. CREATE YOUR BLOG (THE LAST STEP TO MAKE A BLOG)
On this page, you will be expected to do the following things for your blog to be created;
After you have done all the things mentioned above CORRECTLY, your blog will be created without you typing any code. As easy as ABC.
Ok let,s start filling the form with the required information.
The web address (domain name) of every blog created on the free Blogger platform always has the .blogspot.com extension. For example solowayne.blogspot.com, johnsmith.blogspot.com, maryjane.blogspot.com. You must have visited many blogs with the .blogspot.com web address.
So you just need to choose a name that will be attached to the .blogspot.com extension to form the web address of your own blog. Most people running a personal blog often use their name. For example if your name is Suzy Sparks then your blog address may likely be suzysparks.blogspot.com. That is just a hint. You are free to use whatever name you like (provided that the name is still available or not yet taken).
So enter a name in the address area....
If the name you have chosen for your blog is not available (already taken), choose another name till you find a name that is still available (not yet taken).
From the screenshot above, you can see that the name "SOLOWAYNE" is already taken... so i had to choose another name; SOLOWAYNENEWS; which is not yet taken. So the web address of my blog will be solowaynenews.blogspot.com. Thats what my blog readers will type in to their web browser to visit my blog.
After you have entered the title of your blog, Choosen a web address (domain name) for your blog and Selected a web design template (the simple theme) to install on your blog, just click on the Create blog link and your blog will be created automatically (without you typing any code). Yes! just like that.
The front end section is what your blog readers will see when they type yourwebaddress.blogspot.com in to their browser. Your posts will be displayed at the front end section of your blog, for your blog visitors to read and leave their comments.
The back end section (The dashboard of your blog) is the Admin area of your blog where you will be writing and publishing posts on your blog, customize your blog, change the theme (design template) of your blog. In fact, your blogger dashboard is like the backyard of your blog where you will be carrying out your blogging activities. Your blogger dashboard is only visible to you (the owner or Admin of the blog) while the front end section of your blog is visible to every internet user.
How to access the Dashboard of your blog
Like i told you before, the dashboard or backend section of your blog is the admin section of your blog where you will be carrying out your blogging activities or routines like..
When carrying out your blogging activities one of the things you will be doing frequently is switching between the two sections of your blog.
For example after you have written and publish a post on your blog (from your dashboard), you may want to see how the post looks like in the front end section. To do that you will need to switch from the back end section (dashboard) to the front end section.
To switch to the front end section of your blog, this is what you will need to do...
Simply click on the View blog link in your dashboard and you will be able to see the front end section of your blog.
Another easy way to view the front section of your blog is by typing the web address of your blog in to your web browser.
To switch back to the Dashboard of your blog, just type www.blogger.com in to your browser.
OK thats just the basics of blogging. As you carry out your blogging activities, you will become very familiar with all the blogging tools available in the Blogger.com Dashboard.
STEP 2. After arriving at the Blogger website, click on the CREATE YOUR BLOG button as shown in the screenshot below.
STEP 3. After clicking on that button, you will be expected to sign into the Google account.
Click on your Gmail address and enter your password as shown in the screenshot below.
After you are done, click on the NEXT BUTTON to proceed to the next step.
Click on the blue link labelled Create a Google + profile to create a Google + profile. Your Google plus profile is just a brief info about yourself which will be displayed at the About Me section of your blog. Some of your blog readers may likely want to know the name and sex of the author of the personal blog they are reading. When they click on the About me link, they will be able to see your name, sex and also view a little avatar image of yourself.
Just enter your name and your sex....
NEXT, click on CREATE PROFILE as shown in the screenshot below...
If you want to upload a photo (an avatar image) of yourself, just click on the Camera icon and select a pic from your Computer. If you won,t like to upload a pic, just click SKIP to proceed to proceed to the next step...
STEP 5. CREATE NEW BLOG ( the second to the last step)
Click on the CREATE A NEW BLOG link as shown in the screenshot below.
After you have done that,you will arrive at this page.
STEP 5. CREATE YOUR BLOG (THE LAST STEP TO MAKE A BLOG)
On this page, you will be expected to do the following things for your blog to be created;
- Enter the title of your blog.
- Choose a preferred blog address name (domain name) for your blog and
- Select a web design template (theme) to install on your blog.
Ok let,s start filling the form with the required information.
The web address (domain name) of every blog created on the free Blogger platform always has the .blogspot.com extension. For example solowayne.blogspot.com, johnsmith.blogspot.com, maryjane.blogspot.com. You must have visited many blogs with the .blogspot.com web address.
So you just need to choose a name that will be attached to the .blogspot.com extension to form the web address of your own blog. Most people running a personal blog often use their name. For example if your name is Suzy Sparks then your blog address may likely be suzysparks.blogspot.com. That is just a hint. You are free to use whatever name you like (provided that the name is still available or not yet taken).
So enter a name in the address area....
If the name you have chosen for your blog is not available (already taken), choose another name till you find a name that is still available (not yet taken).
From the screenshot above, you can see that the name "SOLOWAYNE" is already taken... so i had to choose another name; SOLOWAYNENEWS; which is not yet taken. So the web address of my blog will be solowaynenews.blogspot.com. Thats what my blog readers will type in to their web browser to visit my blog.
After you have entered the title of your blog, Choosen a web address (domain name) for your blog and Selected a web design template (the simple theme) to install on your blog, just click on the Create blog link and your blog will be created automatically (without you typing any code). Yes! just like that.
After you have clicked on the Create Blog link you will arrive at the BLOGGER DASHBOARD as shown in the screenshot below.
To view your newly created blog, just click on the View blog link as shown in the screenshot below.
If you did all the things mentioned above correctly, this is how your blog will look like...
From the screenshot below, you can see the web address of my blog and the title of my blog.
No posts has been published on the blog yet. In the next step, i,m going to show you how to publish your first post on your personal blog. So let,s proceed to the final step.
THE BASICS OF BLOGGING AT BLOGGER.COM
It should be noted that every blog created at the Blogger platform is made up of two sections which include;- The front end section (your blog) and
- The back end section (also known as the the Blogger DASHBOARD or Admin Area).
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| The front end section |
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| The back end section |
The front end section is what your blog readers will see when they type yourwebaddress.blogspot.com in to their browser. Your posts will be displayed at the front end section of your blog, for your blog visitors to read and leave their comments.
The back end section (The dashboard of your blog) is the Admin area of your blog where you will be writing and publishing posts on your blog, customize your blog, change the theme (design template) of your blog. In fact, your blogger dashboard is like the backyard of your blog where you will be carrying out your blogging activities. Your blogger dashboard is only visible to you (the owner or Admin of the blog) while the front end section of your blog is visible to every internet user.
How to access the Dashboard of your blog
Like i told you before, the dashboard or backend section of your blog is the admin section of your blog where you will be carrying out your blogging activities or routines like..
- Writing and publishing posts on your blog
- Updating and deleting posts
- Customizing your blog
- Changing the theme or template of your blog etc
This means that whenever you want to work on your blog, first! you will need to access your blogger dashboard. To gain access to the Admin area of your blog (known as the Dashboard), this is what you will need to do.
- First you will need to sign in to your Google account
- After you have successfully sign in to your Google account, open a new tab in your browser and then type www.blogger.com. After you have done that you will arrive at your blogger dashboard (the admin area of your blog). You can then start blogging.
How to switch between the two sections of your blogger powered blog.
When carrying out your blogging activities one of the things you will be doing frequently is switching between the two sections of your blog. For example after you have written and publish a post on your blog (from your dashboard), you may want to see how the post looks like in the front end section. To do that you will need to switch from the back end section (dashboard) to the front end section.
To switch to the front end section of your blog, this is what you will need to do...
Simply click on the View blog link in your dashboard and you will be able to see the front end section of your blog.
Another easy way to view the front section of your blog is by typing the web address of your blog in to your web browser.
To switch back to the Dashboard of your blog, just type www.blogger.com in to your browser.
OK thats just the basics of blogging. As you carry out your blogging activities, you will become very familiar with all the blogging tools available in the Blogger.com Dashboard.
How to publish your first post on your blog
I,m going to show you how to write and publish your first post from your blogger dashboard. Ok let,s get started!
Steps to write and publish your first post.
Step 2. After arriving at the dashboard of your blog, just click on the New Post link OR Create a new post as shown in the screenshot below to go to the Blogger editor .
Blogger editor is the area of the blogger dashboard where you will be writing and publishing posts on your blog. The blogger editor is very similar to the Microsoft word editor program. So if you already know how to format a document in Microsoft word then it will be very easy for you to use the blogger editor.
Below is the picture of the blogger editor.
For example to make group of text bold in the blogger editor, you just need to highlight the texts and then click on the B icon found in the tool bar.
Ok now let,s write our first post.
To write and publish your first post using the blogger editor, you just need to enter the title of your post and then write the posts in the description area. After you are done, just click on the publish button and your post will be published.
Switch to the frontend section of your blog to view the post.
Congratulation! you are now a blogger. Welcome to the blogging club.
Share your first post on Facebook so that your friends and family members can know that you have become a blogger.
However there are still many things you still have to learn if you want to become a successful blogger. What i have just given you, is just the basics of blogging.
You will need to carry out more research to know the following things before you can be called a professional blogger like Mwalimu Solo.
This is what you still need to learn...
However there are still many things you still have to learn if you want to become a successful blogger. What i have just given you, is just the basics of blogging.
You will need to carry out more research to know the following things before you can be called a professional blogger like Mwalimu Solo.
This is what you still need to learn...
- You will need to learn how to effectively and efficiently use the blogging tools found in the Blogger dashboard.
- You will need to learn how to use the tools found in the blogger editor to format your posts.
- You will need to learn how to promote your blog using successful techniques like social media marketing, paid advertising and search engine optimization (SEO).There,s no need having a blog if people (your target audience can,t find it).
- You will also need to learn how to make money from your personal blog. For those of you who don,t know, its very possible to make money from your personal blog. I know many mommy bloggers who are making thousands of dollars from their personal blogs every month. Last month i.e. feb 2018, i made more than $2000 from this blog; an amount which is 2 times greater than the salary i earn from my 9-5 job. I,m thinking about quitting my 9-5 to focus on blogging. If i can make that amount of money as a part time blogger, then i can make 5 times that amount as a full time blogger. Who knows, i can even become like Neil Patel who is making millions of dollars every year from his blog.
- You will also need to learn how to choose a profitable niche (topic to write about). You won,t make a six figure by writing about your nagging husband or how to change the diaper of your baby.
- You will also need to learn how to register a custom domain name for your blog. As you can see, i,m no longer using the free solowayne.blogspot.com web address offered by Blogger. If you will like to register a custom domain name for your blog like solowayne.com, then you will need to carry out a research about this topic.
If you won,t like to spend years and waste alot of money via mistakes like me, in order to master all the topics listed above, i will advice you to sign up to my blogging course; From a newbie to a Millionaire blogger... which cost just $150.
All the topics listed above has been covered in the course. I wish there was a course like that before i started blogging. I won,t have gone through so much stress or wasted alot of time and money to become a successful blogger.
These are the books i read in addition to the thousands of Ebooks and how-to guides i read online in order to start making a reasonable amount of money from my blog.
The quickiest and the cheapest means to become a successful blogger is by learning from the veteran bloggers. We have learnt the hardway so that you can learn the easy way.
Ok thanks very much for visiting my blog. You can leave a comment if you have any question or you can hire me to design a blog for you. With just $140 i can design a beautiful blog for you. Very expensive right? thats the penalty for not being willing to learn how to create a personal blog for free.
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