How To Create a Free Blog on Blogger And Earn Money - Sub Techz

Congrats! You have taken an excellent step towards creating a blog.

A blog is a great thing that not only allows you to share anything, make fans, and followers and express yourself, but you can also earn a passive income from your blog.

If you are new to blogging and decided to create a free blog, then you are at the right place.

There are many free blogging platforms that allow you to create free blog such as Wix, Tumblr, Weebly.

But Blogger is the best of them all as it gives you all the freedoms. Google owns blogger so you can trust it.

It's free and easy to launch a blog on blogger.

You can also monetize your blog on Blogger with Google AdSense once you a suitable am of traffic on your blog.

Up to now, you know the benefits of creating a blog on Blogger.com

Now, let’s begin with the step-by-step tutorial to create a free blog on Blogger.com

Step 1: Creating an Account on Blogger

To create a free blog on blogger, go to Blogger.com and login using your Google (Gmail) Account as this platform is owned by Google.

But if you don’t have a Google account, you can also create one for free.

After you log in, you will be asked to enter your name that will be displayed on Blogger account.

Once you’re signed in, click on Create New Blog to create your blog.

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Step 2: Name Your Blog and Choose A Theme

Now the first thing you need to do is to add a name (Title) to your blog and then you get to select a domain (address) for your blog.

Don’t use your personal name as a domain name. Think something Creative.

Choose a short domain name that must match with your blog topic or the title.

Nice! Your blog is now created.

Now, here comes the major thing.

There are some settings you need to set up for more search engines visibility and better user experience before you start writing an article.

So, head to the Settings section on the left-hand side panel.

Step 3: Setting up Your Blog

1.    Add a description to your blog

Now you need to add a description to your blog as it's very important to your blog and its help the search engines and users to know about your blog.

2.    Posts and Comment Settings

These settings will set up how things look on your homepage of the blog.

You can do it by your own 

3.    SEO Settings for Your Blog

Here you can optimize your blog for the search engines.

But be careful! If anything goes wrong, then the Search Engines may ignore your blogn.

·        Description

If you have written an appropriate description of your blog, then just copy it and paste it here. Write a summary of your blog with a good number of keywords that resemble with your blog topic.

·        Custom 404

When a user lands on your blog using an URL that no longer exists then you can give a message to them that the requested page is no longer exist. You can set a custom HTML or text message telling them what to do next. It is just like the "ERROR 404".

·        Custom Redirect

If a user lands on your blog using a broken URL, then you set a custom redirect to your Homepage. Blogger Custom redirects only support redirection within the same blog URL.

·        Crawlers and Indexing

These Features are very useful and should be done properly otherwise you may lose your site ranking in Search engines. I advise you not to mess with these on your own.

Step 4: Adding A New Theme

Now you should change your blog’s template as they’re basic and simple and boring.

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To upload a new theme just click on Theme then on three dots and then Restore and upload your theme.

To get a good template for free, just search it on Google and Download it.

After you download it, Extract the folder and upload the XML file to your blog.

Now find a file named “How to set up this Theme” and just open it and follow the instructions provided.

Step 5: Creating a Post

Now, it's time to write a post on your blog.

Go to Posts and click on the plus sign (+) to create a new post.

Here is the screenshot of what you should see in the next screen.

To know about each tool, just hover your mouse and start writing.

Step 6: Monetize your Blog with AdSense

Now, it’s time to earn some money on the blog.

There are many ways from which you can earn money with your blog such as affiliate marketing, selling products or with other ads providing services.

When you have a good number of posts and audience on your blog, then you can definitely be able to earn money by applying to Google AdSense service.

To apply for AdSense, head over to Earnings and then apply for Adsense.

Since I’ve created this blog for the tutorial, my blog doesn’t qualify for the AdSense.

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Conclusion

With this article, you can create a free blog on Blogger.com.

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