How to Create a Blog
How to Create a Blog: If you have an interest in writing and
you want to keep your word in front of the world, then a blog is the best platform
for you. You can share your knowledge with the world and also earn money from that.
So if want to create a blog and don’t know much more about it, then, please
follow this article because I have explained in detail that How to Create a
Blog.
How to create a blog?
Creating a blog is really very easy nowadays. One can create
a blog within minutes. So there are Two ways through which you can create a
blog viz. Free and Paid. It really does not matter whether your blog is
Free or Paid, the only thing matter that how you work on your blog.
But when you’ll see your blog in the long term, the Paid version
is better than Free one. So try going for the paid ones. For blogging, there are
two most famous platforms, Blogger and Wordpress. Blogger is Free and Wordpress
is paid. Now, let's go in detail of How to create a blog.
What is Blogger?
Blogger is a product of Google which provide the feature of
Creating a blog for Free. It does not charge a single penny for creating a
blog. The two important things which is necessary for creating a blog are Domain
and Hosting. Without it, you can’t create a blog.
Domain: it is the address of your blog through people who can
see your blog. It is the URL by which one can visit your Blog. For Example,
www.example.com.
Hosting: It is the server of your blog where all the data of
your blog gets stored. Talking with an example, if Domain is a smartphone then
Hosting is a memory of that smartphone. Without it domain is useless and blogs
cannot exist.
Blogger provides both Domain and Hosting for free. But as it
is Free, it provides a limited option for Customization. On comparison with
Wordpress in terms of customization option, Blogger provides just 20% of that.
It is very limited.
Now to let's check requirements and step by step guide of
creating a blog on Blogger for Free.
Requirements of Creating a Blog on Blogger for Free
The only thing you need to create a blog on blogger is Gmail
ID and an Idea on which you want to create a Blog. You can Create 100 Blogs
with One Gmail ID.
How to Create Blog on Blogger for Free?
As I mentioned above that you can create upto 100 Blogs with
one 1 Gmail account. Now let's get started with step by step guide on how to
create a blog on Blogger.
2 Click on Sign in button located In the Top Right corner
3 Now Click on Create Blog. After that, you have to give the
details of your blog like Title/Name and domain/URL of your blog.
4 Now give proper Title in the Title Box.
5 Below Title, you’ll get an address box where you’ve to choose the address/URL of your blog.
Note: The address must be unique which means you’ve to
choose a URL that belongs to only you. It is like Phone number, just like your
phone is unique the same with address/URL as well.
The address you choose, the subdomain will automatically get
added to it. For example, if your blog is about Food and your address is
food.com then the blogger will make your address food.com as food.blogspot.com
So BlogSpot is the subdomain of Blogger. If you want to
remove this subdomain, then you’ll have to purchase a custom domain and connect
to the blogger. You will get a direct option to set up a third party domain.
6 After choosing Address and Title, you need to choose Theme
which can be changed later on from Appearance option.
After completing all the steps given above, your Free Blog
will be created on Blogger. That’s how you can create a blog on blogger. Now
let's move on to the paid process which is WordPress.
What is WordPress?
Wordpress is a CMS (Content Management System) on which you
can setup your blog easily. Out of 10, every 8 bloggers/content creator use
wordpress. As it is open source, it gives full customization option. You can do
anything with your blog i.e. it does not has any limit.
Wordpress gives you limitless option for Customizations,
SEO, Designing, etc. You get millions of free and paid Plugins and themes which
can be easily integrated with your blog.
How to create a blog on WordPress?
Before getting started with wordpress, you’ll need to invest
some money and purchase a Domain and Hosting for your Blog. You’ll get
thousands of option for hosting but as you’re a beginner, go for the basic
plan.
After buying domain and hosting, you need to connect your
Domain with Hosting. To do so, just go to Nameserver section of your Domain and
Paste the nameserver of your Hosting.
Note: When you will purchase any hosting, you will get a
unique nameserver which the address of your hosting server and Cpanel. Through
Cpanel, you can control your blog.
So copy Nameserver of your Hosting and paste it in Domain to
connect your domain with hosting. It take from Few minutes to 48 hours to
update a nameserver. After updating nameserver which means after connect domain
with hosting server, you’re ready to create a blog on wordpress.
How to create a blog on Wordpress?
To create a blog on wordpress, there are two option viz.
Automatic and Manual. The manual will be little difficult for a beginner, so we
will discuss it later. Today we will see automatic or one click option to
install wordpress on your blog. The following are the step by step guide to
create blog on wordpress.
1 Open Cpanel of your hosting
2 Scroll down to see Apps from Softclause and click on it.
3 After that you will see multiple option like Wordpress,
Drupal, Joomla, etc.
4 Just select on wordpress and click Install.
5. Now fill information of your blog like Name, Tagline,
etc.
6. Choose a username and a strong Password so that your blog
don’t get hacked.
7. Now Click on Install. Within 1-2 minutes, wordpress will
be installed and your blog will be created on Wordpress. After installation,
you’ll get a admin url through you can login to your blog using username and
password.
Note: To get your blog ranked on Google, your hosting plan
must have a SSL certificate so that your blog get https verified. If your hosting
plan does not has SSL then your get ssl for free from Cloudflare.
After WordPress installation, just login to your blog and
design blog however you want. You’ll get unlimited option to customize it.
Final Word
These are the two most popular ways to create a blog. You
can go for Free or paid, it entirely depends upon you and your budget. But if
you ask me, then I will suggest you to go for WordPress. It is extremely
beneficial from SEO point of view.
So that’s it for today. I hope you have understood that How
to Create a Blog. If you still have any doubt regarding creating a blog then
please ask your question in the comment box below.
