Websites are preferred for so many reasons and for that reason, it’s advisable to have a blog for your life or business. As a beginner, it’s advisable to start with hosting, domain name, branding, themes, icons, and blogger integration. After starting up a blogger blog, you can now proceed to greater heights of doing search engine optimization to your website to be well known as a brand. With the above-attached reasons, we will tackle how to start your first blogger blog website with success.
1. Hosting
You will need to have a server host your website files and themes. For this reason, if you set up your website in the Blogger platform from Google you are guaranteed secure and free hosting. This is a great advantage to a beginner blogger starting up a first Blogger blog. My website is hosted by blogger too, you can as well choose the best blogging platform like WordPress. To start over at this moment click the start button below to start your first blogger blog today. Start
Requirements needed to start your first hosted blog in blogger are as indicated in below points.
1. Google account.
2. Blogger Profile.
3. Name of the Domain.
From the above points its evident that you are only needed to make accounts to start your free lifetime hosting package well suited for beginners.
2. Domain Name.
The name you give to your website should be well optimized according to the topic. I prefer having the most mentioned word from the content you will make appearances in the first part of the domain name and that will get you ranked for the right content niche. A good example is my website domain joecalih.com which comes from the words search engine optimization and my name Calih. The domain name length should be short enough to avoid long URLs that will decrease the SEO of your website.
There are thousands of domain name extensions also known as the top-level domain from .com, .org, .uk and others with country names. They all have meanings. The .org means organization website and others which you can research. Then we have the subdomain which you will set after buying your domain but if you stick with the free blogger domain you are all set.
Domains can be bought from domain name providers in their online platforms such as:-
1. Hostgator.
2. Truehost
3. Sasahost.
Blogger gives away a FREE domain with the .blogger .com name extension. To have a custom domain name, you will have to buy in the websites above.
3. Blogger Theme Template.
The blogger templates are designed in a way that a blogger can choose the preferred custom theme to form the best, clean, responsive, simple and elegant types which will have great user experience to your blogger blog visitors. Choose the theme colors that suit your content and the CSS designs that will please your website visitors.
4. Favicon and Head Logo.
This is the point where the branding section comes in in the making of the favicon png icon for your business with graphics software such as adobe illustrator or photoshop. It’s a requirement so that people will remember to come back to the website with a specific icon.
With the above details, you can now start your own blogger blog without problems. In case you may be interested to check some of this idea you can check my youtube channel about making graphics icons for the favicon and head logo.