How to start a blog and earn money with Blogger

 his is a step-by-step guide that will show you how to start a blog and earn money with Blogger.com with complete details and explanation. Blogger is a blog-publishing platform that allows users to create multiple blogs with their account and publish articles on them.

It was started by a private entity but was later on bought by Google in 2003. It is one of the biggest blogging platforms available to users world-wide. A single user is allowed to host up to 100 blogs in their Blogger account. This limit is usually considered more than enough for all types of users.

In fact, most people usually have a single blog in their account and they do pretty good in terms of readership and the amount of traffic coming to their blog.

One of the biggest competitors of Blogger is WordPress.com which is also a very popular blogging platform. We have chosen to focus Blogger.com in this guide because it has a few advantages over WordPress. Here are a couple of advantages that matter the most for a new user:

• Blogger allows users to use their own custom domain for free with their blogs. WordPress charges around $13 to let users use their own domain.
• Blogger allows users to put ads to their blogs for free using gadgets so they can earn money with them. WordPress only allows users to put ads on their blog if they pay the fees to start a premium WordPress blog. The fees for the premium package is around $ 8 per month.

These two differences have compelled us to ignore WordPress for now and publish this guide about Blogger.com. These advantages may not be huge for regular users who are used to creating and running blogs on multiple platforms, but they matter a lot for new users who want to start their own blog from scratch and want to earn money without spending a dime.

STEPS TO START A BLOG AND EARN MONEY

Starting a blog on Blogger is actually quite easy. Before you get started you must make sure that you have a Google account. That’s a requirement because Blogger.com uses your Google account to authenticate you to the Blogger dashboard.

If you don’t have a Google account you can sign up for one HERE. If you have a Gmail account then you don’t need a separate Google account.

Once you have your Google account ready now is the time to get started on creating a Blogger account. Then we’ll see how to create an actual blog. We have compiled the information in a step-by-step guide.

Here are the steps to create a blog with Blogger:

1. Register an account on Blogger.com
2. Create a title and address for your blog
3. Choose your desired theme for the blog
4. Create your first blog article by clicking on “New Post” button
5. Click on the “Publish” button to publish your first blog post

The whole process is explained in detail below:

STEP-1:

We will start by creating a Blogger account. Assuming you have a Google account the next thing to do is to register on Blogger.com. Click HERE to register. This how the Blogger.com’s main page looks like:

You need to login with your Google account in the login page that follows up. Once you have logged in, the next step is to start creating your blog.

STEP-2:

Once you have signed in to your Blogger account, you will be taken to a screen that looks like this:

Here you will be able to create a blog for yourself. When creating a blog you should know what topic you want to focus on. A blog should be focused on a particular topic that you’re interested to write about.

Once you have decided you should pick a suitable Title and Address for your blog. The title is actually the word or phrase that you want to show on the Title section of your Blog. It will show as the main heading of your blog and it will also show as the headline of your blog on your browser tab.

The Address is the actual web address of your blog for example www.xyz.com. Blogger.com gives you two options for your Blog address.

You can use the free domain name that they provide. It will be in the format: yourblogname.blogspot.com. Whatever the address you’re choosing will be appended with blogspot.com. This will be your free domain.

However, if you want to use a Domain name that you own already then you can opt for a custom domain that you will be able to map later with your blog. As mentioned above, Blogger let’s you use your own domain name with your blog for free.

You can also select a Template for your blog. As you can see in the snapshot, there are a number of templates that blogger provides you for free. You can choose anyone that you think will suit your blog the most. After you have completed all the three requirements, you can then click on Create Blog button to create your blog.