How to Create Blogger Pages

Apart from your blog post, you can manage pages which is usually used to host static pages. Yet, you are provided with ample number of pages to mess with. But remember, don't post usual blog post in blog pages. It is highly recommended to use new blog post. Pages are usually good for static contents such as About Me, Contact us, privacy policy, etc. Usually, these pages are often not edited. They remain static for the long time unless blog author wish to make a change.

Now, it is time to create blogger page if you are yet to create one.

Creating Blogger Pages:

Step #1: As usual, you need to be in your blogger.com dashboard to create your blog pages. Select the blog to which you wish to add pages. It will directly let to your blog dashboard.

Step #2: Now select 'pages' from the blog menu.

Blogger Pages

Step #3: Select 'New Page'. Like the 'create a blog post' interface, you will provided with an interface to create content of the static blogger web page.

Creating Blogger Page

The interface will provide with all the blogger pages that you have created previously. You can edit and update any changes you wish to make in your blogger blog.

Editing do not need any technical skills. Just like we do in the Word 2010, you could be able to edit content of the page like we do in the document.

Step #4: Once you complete your creating page content, you are good to publish them. Hitting 'Publish' will make it live on internet.

Blogger Page Property or settings:

Blogger Page options

Unlike blog post settings, you are limited when it comes to editing settings of your blogger blog pages. You will not find as many options as we do find in blog post creation interface. Only an 'options' setting will be available. It is as good as blog post 'options' where you specify options regarding HTML elements. If you wish to know more about the options, read how to create blog post.

Once you complete editing, hit the 'publish or update' button to save your changes and make it go live. Also with blogger pages you could be able to create static web pages to your blog form which you could create menu from those pages.

Creating Blog Post in Blogger

Well so far so good. You have your blogger blog ready. Now it awaits your first post. No blog is good without blog posts. So it is good to create first post as introduction post. Any blog must have intro blog post to make sure about the purpose of the blog. Well, when this blog is being prepared 'Blogger Guide Introduction' was published to public. To say, it is the first of the blog posts that got ready before anything. Now, lets jump to the creating your first blogger blog post.

Creating Your Blogger Blog post:

Step #1: Go to Blogger.com and login using your Google Account. It will let you to the blogger home page where you can view all your existing blogs.

Step #2: Now select the blog to which you wish to add blog post.  You can create new blog post in multiple ways

Blogger Home Page

 You can simple click on the create new post icon in your blogger home page dashboard to create new blogger blog post. It would directly lead you to create new post interface. Just enter your title and content body. OR

Blog Home page

The previous method is to create new post from Blogger dashboard. Now, if you are in your blog home page. You could either of the icon to start create a new post.

The subject content could be your interest. Make sure that each blog post are inter-related in subject matter. Just creating mixer of subjects will make your readers tired of searching relevant posts. 

Blog Post Settings:

Just posting a blog post ain't enough, each blog post has its own properties to manage with. 

Blog Post Settings

Labels: In other words, it may be called as categories. It is helpful in categorizing blog post in blogger blog. In this case I have created two label, 'Blogger Guide' & 'creating blog post'. You can have up to 500 labels in blogger.

Schedule: Handy property while you are away from your desk. You complete finishing a blog post but it could wait till the time you mention in the schedule to get published. Few bloggers have habit of publishing blog post on particular days in a week. If you have any posting schedule, then you can make blog post get published on that particular day.

Permalink: It is the ending part of the blog post URL. Usually, it is generated automatically based on the title of the blog post. But if you wish you could set 'custom Blog URL' to each blog post.

Location: Blogger can indicate the location from which blog is posted. Yet, it is not exact location. You can add New York, USA as location from a desk located in Singapore. But adding location adds value to the blog.

Options

Options: Bloggers could decide how HTML is interpreted in the document. Few bloggers who blog about coding are good with 'Show HTML literally' as nothing indicates to add code to be viewed by the blog readers.

If you enable 'Interpret typed HTML', you could just add any HTML code that you wish to be part of blog post. You can add HTML tags on the go.

Description: You may not find this option initially. Blog Post Description is nothing but meta-description of the blog. It is one of the option available to SEO your blog which is not topic of this blog post. Also it is good to know how to enable Blog Description.

Once you finish writing your blog post, hit 'Publish' button to make it go live in Internet. 

Blogger Guide Introduction

Blogger Guide is a web blog aimed at helping fellow blogger to create a valuable and highly relevant web blogs for target audience. Most blogger who start blogging are beginners who find it tedious editing layout and templates without any technical knowledge. When a new blogger start his web blog, he will be one man company managing all the affairs of the web blog. So as a web blogger, who is getting started with blogger, has to be a good manager at first. Merely writing good blog post, will not attract attention. The blog author must be one who is capable of steering the blog post towards targeted audience to make it live and running. Running a successful blog will take lot of hard work. No blog will get stardom overnight. So keep working consistently will pay the reward.

Patience is the key:

Patience is the key. Most of them get curious the day two when blog goes online. How many visitors did I get? That's what satisfy a blogger. But their exist too many metric each blogger must understand. Just visitors alone make it all. Even I do own other blogs, where most visitors are nothing but bots. How hard I try, bots never relents. They just create some 100 to 150 page views per day. Does it mean, I receive good web traffic? Definitely, not! Even if you get 5 real readers of your blog post, then you have achieved making some one read your blog post.

Few bloggers rush for web traffic, try black hat SEO to get huge web traffic from search engine results. This may be good in short run. But your blog must aim to cater the need of your readers in long run. Blogger blog must be like a teak wood class chair where you use it for generation rather than a plastic chair which break within years of usage. Black hat SEO would give you plastic chair comfort. So patience is the key. Even today, you may not get your audience. But one day your blog will reach them.

Creating a blog will take time. Not just one or two blog post will create interest in your blog. So need have some warehouse of post to make readers and other fellow blogger to gain interest. So make sure you create enough content to draw attention.

Personalize Reader Experience:

Blogger Guide will help you make your blogger blog personal to your readers and audience. 

Design is how it work not how it looks - Steve Jobs

Your blogger blog design must be satisfy the convenience of the users. Design is not just how enticing your blog looks but how it projects content to the audience. Personalized user experience will get lot of social shares. So increased presence in social media.

Blogger guide is one stop solution to make your blogging right! Having cluttered blog is not a design. Your blog design must make readers get access to content in the intended way.

Getting Started with Blogger

A few percentage of population wish to be writer form childhood days. Those who are in schooling would had a dream about writing a book or manual about something of the passion that they love most. But those dreams to become a writer fly off your mind when you pass out high school. Due to economic pressure, we will find ourselves in a job that going to pay us salary to lead a comfortable life. Two generations back, writing is a novel thing. One who dedicate one's own life for writing would be able to take up writing books. But in this internet age, writing books alone is not suffice. Most of us read lot more information and stories from internet than books. 
With smartphone penetration, a tap and a flick will get any information that is available over internet. Even voluminous books are reduced to simplest of form writing by web blog authors. If you are one which to pursue a career in writing, then you are in the right place to start with. For those who wish to be web blog authors, might find themselves fight dilemma over the platform to start with. But this is nothing to worry about. It is common among most web blog starters confused over the platform in which they have to start writing for their audience. For those bloggers who need a platform to get start with blogging, blogger.com is the place.

Getting Started with Blogger:

Blogger.com

To get started with blogger, all you need is a device that is capable of utilizing an internet connection. Blogger could be accessed through desktop computer or mobile smartphones & tablets. So you will get varied choice when it comes to blogging from multiple devices. But make sure you blog from same account and same blog!

Most tussle faced by beginners while starting a blog is technical knowledge! How to setup a blog in internet. Though, wordpress is popular and power almost 80% of the popular internet web blogs, beginners find it difficult, if not difficult afraid, to setup a web blog from hosting services. But with Blogger, you will find no such problem. All you need is give your blog a name and you would be able to view it from xyz.blogspot.com (xyz is name of your blog and called as sub-domain).

Advantages of Blogger:

Being a beginner, blogger will provide you with head start unlike other blogging platform. Many others would argue advocating for various other blogging platforms which provide rich interface and flexibility. Yet, beginning your web blog with Blogger is hassle free. It is easy to setup and no hidden cost is involved unlike other blogging platform. Moreover, it is powered by Google. So you find your blog getting hit in search result in no time, if you provide unique and original content. 

Though at first, you may be provided with a sub-domain, you can later add a top-level domain name to your blogger web blog. It could done either through Google domain or some third party domain name retailers. Most blogging platform which provide rich editing interface and features will charge for custom domain.

And you can exercise the option of exporting or importing blog posts from your blogger account. This will come handy for any web blog author who wish to migrate to a hosted web blog of their choice. First and foremost thing is to establish your blog. From my personal experience, I found most blogs running from blogger with a custom domain name. But hosting a web blog in your own hosting account has its own advantages which is out of scope at this moment.

Setback of Blogger Blogs:

Well, every good thing comes with a price. So do the blogger. If you are using blogger, you will have to accept terms & conditions of the blogger. If you read terms & conditions, you might have a feel that you do not actually own your blogger blog. It is good until any conditions and terms are breached. 

This is should not stop you from using blogger. Most of the blogs pulled down by Google are for copyright violations (especially music and other multimedia) and for spam activity. So for those who are genuine and have real interest in starting web blog, Blogger is the place for you. You will be good as long as your blog is good!