It quite surprised me how easy it was creating a blog account:
- Think of a catchy, creative account name. My goal was for the name to somewhat reflect me and my interests in life. Thus, the name PinayAdventure.
- Go to Google and sign-up for the account name. Pray hard someone hasn't thought and signed-up your brilliant idea before you did. I had two choices, and one was already taken.
- Activate Blogger by scrolling to the header portion of Google, hovering on More, then selecting Blogger. Tada!
- Then I layout and design templates by choosing the Picture Window Template, and customizing the background image. Bloggers has tons of images to choose from that I'm surprised, it doesn't look bad at all. Everything is so easy to configure, one doesn't even really need programming skills for this. The design and color templates will make you look like a design pro. For myself, I wanted to have a white background on my posts, since I personally do not find it easy reading on white over black, if you know what I mean.
- Customize your layout by choosing the essential "Gadgets" you think are important for your site. Mine are:
- Labels
- Search This Blog
- Blog Archive
- Subscribe to Updates
- Share It
- Links
- Put up a "Like my Facebook FanPage" on the side bar via adding an HTML "Gadget". This displays even the faces of the people who likes your Facebook FanPage. If people click this, it adds count to the likes you get on your Facebook FanPage. This way. the visitors no longer needs to go to a separate window to do you a favor an like your page. Check out the link below where you'll find detailed steps on doing this. Just a tip though, when it says that you have to look for the "EDIT HTML" button, then you'll find it in the TEMPLATES portion. http://www.bloggerplugins.org/2011/01/facebook-like-fan-box-for-blogger.html
- Add a Facebook like button below every post http://www.bloggerplugins.org/2010/04/facebook-like-button-for-blogger.htm
- As well as add a Facebook Share button with count on the top right portion of my every post. http://www.bloggerplugins.org/2009/10/facebook-share-count-button-blogger.html
- Needless to say, I also signed up for a Facebook Page dedicated for this blog, but linked to my personal Facebook Account.
- If you update your blog as often as you could and write on interesting topics to cause enough web traffic, then you might consider adding AdSense to your blog . This gives you the chance to earn at the same time with your blog. =) I signed up for Adsense for some ads on my new blog. I don't expect on receiving a lot from this, but I just want to give it a try. If you're 24/7 serious with your blog, then maybe you'd earn a huge sum in AdSense. I don't know yet. Anyone mind sharing their experience with AdSense?
I've still got a lot to learn about this though. A lot more things. SOS?
By the way, this blog is a product of reading from another person's blog, Ready to be Rich www.fitzvillafuerte.com His blog is quite interesting and inspiring, to be honest.
By the way, this blog is a product of reading from another person's blog, Ready to be Rich www.fitzvillafuerte.com His blog is quite interesting and inspiring, to be honest.
I can't seem to see your Google Friend connect. Follow each other?
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