Before create a blog you need to figure what topic the blog will focus on. Think about your hobbies or skills that you’re good at, think about something you have passion, if you’re a painter you can create a blog about painting, if you’re a driver you can write a blog about car. I really suggest you to create a blog for something that you interest, so that someday you never get stuck to write content. Forget to copy paste other people article for your content, that only will make your blog have penalties from Google and your blog will disappear in SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages), that mean less visitor. Less visitor = less money.
I can give you an idea for content, did you know forum? You can have content from there, for example what your interest? Automotive? Just type “automotive+forum” in google search toolbar you can find hundreds of the automotive forum there. Join them, you can create content for your blog from what people asking and what people talking there,
Just simply rewrite if you find something interest and then post to your blog.
After you have topic to chosen, pick url for your blog, please keep the url contain keyword for your blog content, that will help you when people search your keyword in search engines. I won’t get in to detail to explain how to create a blog in blogger.com because it very pretty easy. After you click “Create Your Blog Now” link in blogger.com homepage just follow the wizard instructions.
But I want to share from my experience the most popular template, is “MINIMA” the second is “DOTS” but the “dots” template is very “tight” it’s depend on you to choose a template, of course you can choose another template from another resources. Just type “free blogger templates” in google search toolbar.
And you already have a blog right now, but how about the blog settings ? believe me the blogger.com standard settings did not work. You need to change a few things.
Basic settings tab
On the "Basic" settings tab, set your blog title to the keywords you want to show up for the search engines (keyword phrase need to be in tittle). That will help you get better rank. I have a tip for keyword. Go to
http://keywordtracker.com, download the free trial version then type your blog theme there, pick your keyword that have less or even better zero competitor, you can use several keyword with zero competitor and use it for your blog keywords.
Give a good, detailed description about the benefits of reading your blog daily. Your description will show up when your blog listed in many directories, if your description is well written it can generate a lot of traffic. You want to get people to add your RSS feed to their aggregators (we talk about rss feed later) and websites so you can get traffic, and this will help.
Answer “Yes” to the question “Add your Blog to our listings?”. . this will alert the search engines and people when your blog has been updated. And also your will blog appear on the main page of Blogger when you make new posts one other, lesser known detail about setting that question to “Yes” is that if you set it to “No” Blogger will shove “nofollow/noindex” meta-tags into your blog template header, which will prevent your blog from getting crawled or indexed. I believe this was done to fight what Blogger called “spam blogs”.
Publishing
Set the “Notify Weblogs” setting to “Yes”. This will send a notification to Weblogs every time you make a new post. Weblogs is a site that lets people (and search engine crawlers) know when new content appears on a blog. You want the crawlers (and visitors) to hit your pages when you add new content, so be sure this is set to Yes.
Formatting
You can do what you want on this tab, I personally set the number of posts on the main page to between five and seven. Don’t set the number less than five because your blog will like looks a MFA (Made For Adsense) sites especially when you put your adsense ads block in top of page and post body.
Comments
Allow comments. Allowing comments is good because it gives more food to the search engines and keeps your blog updating and fresh even when you’re not posting to it. I usually let anyone comment, and don’t limit it.
Don’t show the comments in a pop-up window, because that will prevent the crawlers from being able to get to the content since it’s javascript-based.
If you’re concerned that people might flame you, but you want to allow comments, enable comment moderation so that you have to approve each comment that is added before it goes live.
If you want to be notified when a comment is made, set the Comment Notification Address to your email address.
Archiving
Set your archiving to daily if you post every day, or weekly if you only post every few days. If you post every day daily is the best way to go, because it gives the search engines more unique pages to crawl and index. More unique content means more traffic to your blog and more clicks on your AdSense
If you don’t do a daily archive (and maybe even if you do), enable post pages so that each post will still have its own unique page even if multiple posts appear on the same archive page. Having multiple posts on one archive page is not a bad thing if you have post pages enabled, since the posts tied all together make for yet another unique page on the blog.
Site Feed
What is RSS feed? RSS stands for “ Rich Site Summary” or “Really Simple Syndication” or “RDF Site Summary” depending on the version that is being used. RSS is essentially a way to stream up to the minutes news and updates on your blog. How and why RSS work rather technical but that shouldn’t worry you at all because you don’t need to know how the technical side to get it to work for you. Definitely enable the site feed. If your posts tend to be very short, you might enable full descriptions. But if you have long posts (which I recommend), do not enable the full feed, use the short feed. Here’s why:
If you put the full post in your RSS feed, then the person reading the feed doesn’t have a reason to go back to your blog since they have already read the full post. No visitors to the blog means no clicks on your ads. AdSense has an “AdSense For Feeds” in beta testing, but it’s not open to all publishers yet, so at least for now you need to induce people to visit the blog.
If they can only read part of the blog post, then if they want the whole story they will need to go to your blog. You can plan for this by making sure that your title and the first 50 words really pull in the reader’s attention. You need to use those first 50 words to make them just have to read the rest.
Also, if your RSS feed appears on websites, you don’t want to give away the farm by showing the whole post. You’re letting websites use your feed so you can get clicks on the posts in that feed and get visitors to your blog to build AdSense revenue.
So set the “Descriptions” to Short, write long posts and make the title and the first 50 words count.
Oh I almost forgot, your site feed url is http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml i will tell you how to create your site feed below
How to Create Site Feed
In this capther we assume you already have an yahoo account cause the RSS feed will be create in your Yahoo account (Yahoo allows you to create your own blog RSS feed this means Yahoo spider will be indexed your feed for free, everytime you update your content the Yahoo spiders will come to your blog and indexed your new pages in Yahoo Search Engine database)
Now login to your Yahoo account, click “MyYahoo” link in the top right corner then to register your blog click “add content” button at the bottom of the landing page, then you will see a large, blue “find content” field. Next to the find button you will see a link called “Add RSS by URL”. Click on this link that you will be able to add your’s blog site feed url.
Remember your site feed url is “http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml.
Once you have added your site feed url click on the “add” button.
Yahoo then does a quick search to see if there really is a blog with this RSS url. And then you will bring to a page that confirming you to add this blog feed to your “My Yahoo” page. All you need to do is click “Add To My Yahoo” button. If you put the wrong url you will see “We couldn’t find the RSS file you asked for”.
Once you have your blog url accepted, click on the “My Yahoo! Home” link. When you scroll to the bottom of your yahoo page you will see that your blog listed. Usually your “MyYahoo” page said :
Your blog titles---- no articles in the past 3 days.
if it said so,that’s mean your blog is well done and you can start to make some money. But don’t forget to ping Yahoo every time after you update your blog, just copy this location in your browser toolbar
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping?u=http://yourblogname.blogspot.com.
For more save account don’t update your blog more than three times a day.
And about pinging other service you can do that automatically using feedburner.com
