How to Create a Free Blog on Blogger [Ultimate Guide 2020]

Most of you may be wondering how to create a free blog on blogger and monetize it to earn some money. Well, to create a free blog on blogger platform is too easy. And you can easily create, write, and publish your blog with the help of Google Blogger (Known as Blogspot).

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You can succeed fastly in the blogger platform, and yes, it is security. Your motto should only be to create and write the best content by using creative and professional content writing styles. Plus, you may have to choose the best themes (templates) that may suit your blog after creating and publishing your blog post.

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There are also a few limitations to the blogger platform. Since you can create a free blog on Blogger, you can invest your money in other important things. You may have to produce excellent content for your blog. After writing your content, you can publish it quickly. Yeah, there are few limitations of the blogger, but these limitations are nothing as compared to the benefits.

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This article highlights all the procedures involved to create a free blog on Blogger and setting up the platform.

Here are the 7 Steps to Create a Free Blog on Blogger (Blogspot):

1. Sign in to Blogger

Google Blogger (Blogspot) platform connects with a Google account. So before creating a blog on the Blogger platform, you must have to log in to your Google account (Gmail).

So let’s start with this.

Step 1: Go to your browser and type in www.google.com. Then you can see the “Sign-in” button on the top right-hand page.

Step 2: Now create a Gmail account (If not created already) and complete the process.

Step 3: Go to the Blogger platform and log in to the Blogger by entering your Gmail address and password.

And yeah, your sign in procedure is complete.

2. Create Your Blog

Step 1: Click on “Create New Blog” as showing in the below screenshot.

Step 2: Enter your blog title, address, choose a theme, and then click on the “Create Blog” icon.

3. Setup Your Blog

You may find various things in themes, menu, settings, and sidebar. You can explore these things and make use of all these things in your blog. Make sure to create a unique and excellent blog post so that the audience may like your blog and may love visiting your blog again and again.

And to attract different types of audience, you can try to create contents that monetize. And remember, to get more traffic, the excellent experience you get. You may get in contact with various brands and sponsors. They can pay you for placing their ad. Well, there are also multiple ways to make money through blogging about which we may discuss later in this article.

Step 1: Go to the “Settings” tab and then click on the “Basic” option.

Step 2: You can see the options of Title, Description, Privacy, Blog Address, HTTPS Redirect, and Blog Reader. You can fulfill all the required details, and even you can buy a custom domain by clicking on “Buy a domain.”

Step 3: Go to the “Posts, comments, and sharing” tab. From here, you can configure how many posts should show on the main page (Default is seven posts in the screenshot). You can add a template for a specific job. You can change who can comment and a few other details as per your need.

Step 4: Don’t forget to click on the “Save settings” icon on the right-upper corner.

Step 5: Now go to the “Search preferences” tab. From here, you can enter Meta tags, Errors and redirections, Crawlers and indexing, and Monetization.

Step 6: Now go to the “Other” tab and configure the essentials settings such as Import & backup, Site feed, and Google Analytics web property. Even you can delete a blog from here.

Step 7: Click on the “Save settings” icon that is showing in the right-upper corner (Highlighted in Step 6 screenshot’s).

Great! You have configured almost settings.

4. Choose a Theme (Template)

Google blogger platform provides people with two options. It means they can either use the built-in template designs or install a template from an outside source.

Generally, bloggers to save themselves from extra burden use the built-in templates. Well, there are also various built-in templates and can be called sufficient. But there is one thing you need to consider before using a blogger template that is available for free on the web can also be spam links or malware.

Therefore, you should avoid using outside templates. You need to be careful but don’t need to worry if you are satisfied with limited themes. Choosing a model for your blog is necessary because it increases the presentation and can create a website look amazing. You should try to select the best template as per your choice. The template should be attractive so that the audience may like your website.

5. Create & Publish Your Post

After deciding the niche, you need to determine the topic, and after that, you need to follow the following steps:

Step 1: Go to the “Posts” tab and click on the “New post” button.

Step 2: Now, fill-up all the required details such as  Post Title, Description, and can add content. You can also change and configure your post settings from here.

Step 3: Click on the “Publish” icon to publish your post.

Congratulations! You have created and set up your blog on the blogger platform.

6. Promote Your Blog

After writing and publishing your free blog on blogger their comes the part of promoting. You must be wondering how you can improve it through social media marketing.

Social media platforms are an excellent means of driving traffic to your blog. You can make use of social media platforms like Linkedin, Twitter, and Facebook. SMM and SEO are excellent and helpful methods to promote a blog and increase traffic.

7. Make Money with Your Blog

Just like other bloggers make money bloggers of this platform earn money the same way. Here are the various methods for how they can earn money.

1. Google Adsense: If you are related to digital marketing, then you must have heard of Google Adsense for sure. It provides an excellent opportunity for bloggers to place ads in their blogs that are relevant to their content.

2. Direct ads: Another method to earn money through blogging is to sell direct ads. Those bloggers who get an outstanding amount of traffic in their blogs use this method.

3. Affiliate marketing programs: Affiliate marketing is another most common method of making money online through blogging. It is not easy to make your blog successful and post every week. Plus, you may want to make some revenues from your blog as well as a fruit to all your hard work. The solution lies in affiliate marketing programs.

Here is the list of top 3 affiliate programs that can prove to be beneficial for every blogger:

1. Amazon affiliates: All of us know about Amazon, but do we know that it is elementary to make money from blogs through affiliate marketing.

2. Clickbank: It is quite like ShareASale. It is a very vast market place consisting of varieties of traders and business people.

3. Shopify affiliate program: It is the most popular eCommerce platform which is used by bloggers all over the world.

4. Sponsored content: As mentioned above, there are many ways to earn from blogging. But to make some extra money from blogging, you can try sponsored content as well. A sponsored post is those posts in which a business organization pays bloggers.

Conclusion: Blogger (Blogspot) may have few limitations, but it is worth it to set up a free blog on blogger. You can easily create a blog, promote it, and publish it. You may not be able to get many templates just like WordPress, but what’s the use. All you need is a unique theme, and bloggers do have a few very unique and useful themes or templates. To start a  free blog on blogger is entirely the right choice. Well, what do you think? Is it right to make a free blog on blogger? Do let me know your theories in the comment section.