How To Create a Free Blog on Blogspot & Make Money Online With Google

How To Create a Free Blog on Blogspot & Make Money Online With Google

In this post we are going to see step by step process of creating a free blog in blogspot or blogger.com and learn how to earn money with your blog.

Blog is basically a website that is regularly updated by an individual or a group of individuals.

Blogging is one of the best ways to make money online. Blogger.com / Blogspot.com is a free blog service provided by Google. It is one of the most used blogging platforms around the Internet.
There are many other good alternatives like Wordpress, Tumblr etc. But I recommend blogger for all the newbies since blogger is free and easy to start. You don’t need to be a expert to deal with blogspot. Blogspot has good interface and easy to understand environment to create a blog for a newbies compare to Wordpress and other blogging platform.

There are several people who made blogging as their main profession and started to  earn a good sum of money.

I assure you that you can earn a decent income to run your life through blogging. All you need is Patience and Persistence.  

Let us move on to the step by step process.

1. Choose Your Blog Topic

Topic is the most important factor for blogging. You can select any topic you want but make sure you are willing to explore about that topic. Just ask yourself two questions after selecting a topic.

• Am i passionate about that topic?
• Does this topic have good number of audience?

If you have valid answers then you are ready to go to the next step. You can take your own time to decide since this is the most important step of all.

2. Choose Your Blog Name

Blog name should explain what your blog is all about and it should be easy to remember. The most important thing is that it should be unique like email username. i.e. yourblogname.blogspot.com. That will be the URL for your blog. Initially it will be a sub domain of blogspot.com. Later you can buy and setup your own custom domain i.e. yourblogname.com. Make sure your blog name is unique so that getting a custom domain won’t be a problem. 

3. Create your free blog in blogspot / blogger

Follow this step by step tutorial to create your own blog in blogspot.com and make your first blog post.

• Go to blogger.com / blogspot.com and sign in using your Google account

• Enter your blog title and blogspot URL 

Blog title is your blog name that will appear in the header of your blog and URL is a subdomain of blogspot.com, should be in small lettters without space.  You can select any template listed below the title and URL field. For example, your blog name is Infant Info then the title and URL should be Infant Info and infantinfo.blogspot.com respectively.

• Creating your first post

Once you are done with step 2 you will get redirected to blogger dashboard. You should select New post to write your first blogspot blog post.

• Fill Post Title, Article Body, Format and style your blog post

Post title is very important it carries more weight than any other text in a page in terms of SEO (search engine optimization). I will explain about SEO in my upcoming articles. So please try to include all the important keywords that users might search.
Write your first article in the content area and make use of the formatting options placed just above the content area.

• Publish the blog post

Click the publish button placed parallel to the title text box. So you have a created your own website and published your first article. View your blogspot and its post by entering your blogspot URL (yourblogname.blogspot.com – created in step 2) in the address bar.

4. Driving Traffic To Your Blog

This is the most hardest part of every blogger’s journey. Your task is not accomplished until you drive people to see your blog, for that great content isn’t enough.

How should you drive people to your blog? 

There are many methods to drive Traffic towards your blog.

1. Social Media
2.  Search Engine Optimization
3. Referral

5. Monetizing Your Blog

Monetizing your blogspot blog can be done by putting advertisements either from third party or from ad publishers. You will get paid accordingly. There are many ad publishers program. Google Adsense is the best way to monetize your blogspot but to do this you should have an approved Adsense account. Getting your Adsense account approved using your blogspot blog is somewhat easy when comparing approval through other websites. Your blog must be 6 months old to apply for an Adsense account. So you should make use of this 6 month period to develop your blog to some extent and then you can apply for Adsense.

Click Earnings tab in your blogspot / blogger dashboard to sign up. Fill up the form and submit it. The approval process may take up to a week.

Don't worry if your blog doesn't get approved from Google Adsense. There are many third parties ad publishers which gives approval easily if your blog generate good traffic daily. I'm going to talk about  Best Google Adsense Alternative in future post.

I hope this article is useful for all those who want to make money online. Please share your feedback and comments.