How to start a free blog with Blogger in simple steps

November 19, 2017

I know most of you always have a thought to start your blog. Even many times, I tried to start my blogs to share my ideas and expertise over the net but most of the times my plan remains plan only as it required lots of coding skills. But today starting a blog is very simple with the help of different blogging platforms, such as Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr and more. I have put this guide for you, to setup your blog in easy steps.

Here’s a simple step-by-step guide for creating a blog on Blogger with screenshots:

Go to your browser and enter the URL https://www.blogger.com/

You can see below screen on your browser.

To create blog, you need to login into Blogger. You can “SIGN IN” either by your existing Google account or you can create new account. In case you want to create new account, click on “CREATE YOUR BLOG” button. It will open a window like below:

Enter your Email or phone as user name & click on “NEXT” button.

Enter your Password & click on “NEXT” button.

You will be redirected to Blogger admin page with your login credentials. Now, you are ready to create your first blog.

To create a new blog you need to do following setup:

Title: Give title for your blog. This will appears as a heading on your blog page.

Address: Give simple & meaningful address for your blog as I have given for my blog “dotnetlookercsharp.blogspot.com”. This is the address/url through which user will access your blog. (If the given address is available then you will see a message with a tick mark sign otherwise a red mark to try with other address, as below screen).

Theme: Select any theme for your blog. I have selected the default theme i.e. “Simple”.

Click on “Create blog” button to start. While creating, it will ask you to find a domain name for your blog. Considering you don’t have any registered domain as of now so, click on “No thanks” button as below screen:

Now, your blog with minimal settings is ready to use. To view your blog’s look & feel, click on View blog option beneath your blog’s title.

As of now, you don’t have any post so you will see below screen with No posts message in body section. In right sidebar you will see your profile detail which can be customize later.

Now it’s time to create a post. Go back to blogger page. Click on “New Post” button. It will open a window like word document.

Give your Post’s title in the given textbox. By default, Compose tab will be active where you can directly write your contents in text area exactly like below screen.

Once you complete with writing your content. Click on “Save” button to save the blog. Before publish, it’s a good practice to view blog’s preview so click on Preview button. (Below is my blog’s preview for the reference).

You can do some post settings like adding labels, location etc. Enter some label’s name for your post & click on “Done” button like below. These labels will be used to search & redirect to your post when someone clicks on it.

It’s time to publish the blog. Click on “Publish” button. After publishing it will redirect to admin page where you can see the post details as well as you can do updates accordingly. You can see below screen, I have mentioned some post information to give you clear picture.

Hope this article gives you some confidence to start your blog right away instead of thinking to do in future.

In my previous blog, I have guided how to link the blog with Google Search Console & how to add your site verification with Google Webmaster Tool. Below is the link:

https://dotnetlooker.blogspot.in/2017/11/how-to-verifyadd-blogger-blog-in-google.html

In the next blog, I will guide you through followings:

How to customize the blog.

How to add Pages to the blog.

How to change Layout of the blog.

How to change Theme of the blog.

How to link your domain with blogger & some basic settings for blog.