How Do I Start a Blog?

My next door neighbour has so much to say that sometimes I wish she could just write it all down somewhere. Not only that, but she is the sort of person who things just happen to. You and I can go out and spend the day shopping and come home, but not her. She will go out and someone will think she is a celebrity, or she will win a prize, or lose something and end up coming home on the back of a camel. You know! Things just happen. So I said to her "you should write a blog!" Well, a week later she was back: "How do I start a blog?"

It is actually much easier than you think to start a blog. I know people think that you need to have a domain and have hosting and hard stuff like that. But it is actually much easier than that. There are many websites around which let you start a blog in seconds. One of them is Google.

With Google, you first need to register with them. Then, when you have logged in to your account, you have to click on the word 'blogger' on the next page. It really is that simple. This will lead you through the installation and you only have to follow the instructions exactly. It will ask you for a name. This is quite important and something which you should think about carefully.

The correct name can get you lots of visitors and can make your blog very popular. The name you choose will also be part of your web address. On Google your blog address is www.yourname.blogspot.com. This means that they set aside space on their servers for you to have some space.

Once this has all been set up you can go to your dashboard which lets you sort out the look of your blog and add things called widgets. These can be news, or games or anything you like which appears somewhere on your blog page. A lot of people like to add a widget called 'followers' which lets them see how many people read their blog. Finally, it is up to you to begin writing and you are off! My neighbour? Oh yes, she accidentally put a spelling mistake into her address and immediately got a hundred followers because of it. Wonderful!

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