The Complete Google Manual - USA - Edition 05 (2020-04)

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Your First Post
Blogging is all about posting. Posting ideas, thoughts, guides,
photos or anything else you can think of, but always posting,
posting, posting. The best blogs, those which gain loyal
followers, are the ones that not only post quality but which
post regularly. Before you get to that stage, let’s have a look
at your first post.

Step 1
❱ From your list of blogs, which will probably only have one in it
at the moment, click on the pencil/write button to the right of
the blog title. The compose screen will now open, showing all the
tools you need to post.

Step 2
❱ Start by entering the title of the blog post in the Post Title box.
Your blog post titles are important as these are often what will
appear in the search results when someone searches for the
subject in Google or other search engines.

Step 5
❱ Back on the main menu bar, click the Stats link and select
Overview from the options that appear. Here you can see some
info about your blog: comments, pageviews, number of posts, etc.,
along with all of the main blog controls on the left of the screen.


Step 4
❱ You will now be taken back to the main Blogger screen, with your
new blog listed at the top of the page. To the right of the blog title,
you will see several buttons. Click View Blog to open a preview of
your blog in a new window. Don’t worry that it looks boring, you
can fix that later.


Create a Blog with Blogger


Custom Domain


Blogger offers two free publishing options for your
blog: hosting on Blogspot (example.blogspot.com) and
hosting on your own custom domain (www.example.com
or for.example.com). You can change your publishing
option at any time and your content will always
remain unaltered regardless of which of these options
you choose.
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