Writing your first blog posts

Writing your first blog posts

Right now if you were to visit your blog you'd be presented with a notice explaining that there are “no posts” to display.Creating a posts for your blog is as simple as filling out a form. To get started, you can either click the “Start Blogging” link or the orange pencil icon in the Blogger dashboard. If you are viewing your site on the web, alternatively click the “New Post” link in the top right of the Blogger nav bar.This will bring up the blog posting form in which you can write your post:

Tip: When choosing a title for your post, try to include a relevant description of what the

post will be about. This will help people find your post more easily in search engines

and attract more page views.

You can jazz up the text-based content of your blog posts in a number of ways:

• Use bold, italic, underlinedor strike-throughtext using the buttons above the form

• Use different coloured fonts and background colours using the drop-down buttons

• Insert a numerical (ordered) or bulleted (unordered) list

• Select an area of text to appear as a quote using the blockquote button

Adding links

To add a link in your blog post, select the text you would like to form a link and click the

hyperlinkbutton. This brings up a pop-up dialogue in which you can specify the URL of

the page you would like to link to, and choose whether or not clicking on the link will open

in a new window:

Tip: Links are regarded as the “currency” of the web. Web pages which are linked to by

many other sites are regarded as having more “authority” and often rank higher in

search engine results. If you would prefer not to pass on this “link love” to the site you

link to, check the “rel=no-follow” box which tells search engines not to follow this link

from your published page.

Instead of a web address, you can also use the hyperlink tool to link to an email address.

However, linked email addresses can become the target of spammers unless the address

is encrypted (an alternative safemethod for posting your email address can be found

here).

In Next Post We will learn how to add links,images,videos in post