Written on April 20, 2008 – 4:26 pm | by Ross |

Get over to Blogger.com

Blogger is owned by Google and is a free platform and is part of the “Web 2.0″ family. You can very easily create your own Blogs using Blogger. It is easy to get good Search engine rankings using Blogger if you target the right Keywords.

This is a really easy way of putting together a blog without all the technical problems you normally have to encounter when hosting a blog on your own host.

You should really be using your own platform to create your own Blog as it will only belong to you where as Blogger is just hosting your Blog and is governed by rules so you are not in complete control.

There are some benefits to using Blogger.

It is really easy to create a blog.

Follow these steps below

Step 1 - Click on create a Blog

Step 2 - Blog Title

Make sure you use Long-Tail Keywords and bear in mind all the title you use is going to get picked up by the search engines. You have to thinking Headline, Benefit and curiosity.

Step 3 - Choose a template

Step 4 - Start Blogging using the WYSIWYG editor (The label section is for kws to help users navigate round your blog and also search engines for indexing purposes) You can add pictures, etc from here.

You can change the layout and move and add to different parts of the blog.

Step 5 - Publish Post

You can edit every part of your blog by just going in and editing.

Task-

To put together a blog using Blogger and recommend Lee’s Newsletter and other links.

Results -

Long Tail Keyword Used - “internet marketing products review” 492 competing pages, 8 daily searches (works out at approx 240 searches per month)

Here’s the blog I put together - http://internet-marketingproductsreview.blogspot.com/

(Week 3 Task 4 of the Intern Program)