HOW TO OWN A BLOGGER ACCOUNT

Many times people who are new to the internet and some who have been around without being the savvies will always pose the question “what is blogger?”  To be able to explain this, it is pertinent to explain what a blog is.

Weblog or blog is an ongoing regularly updated entries or posts maintained by a person on a selected topic, majority of blogs on the internet feature a community, links and comments to other pages, articles or sites. Blogs are maintained by one person the owner of the blog -if a personal blog- and  more frequently updated than other sites and centres on a specific topic best known to the blogger (person now).  Types of blog ranges from personal, niche, to corporate blogs.  Blogs can be hosted on free or paid platforms. without gainsaying, one can do virtually anything on a blog -even make money- without much hassle.

Having explained that, now what is a blogger?  As explained above, a blogger is used to refer to a person who owns and updates a blog, but am not referring to this.  Blogger under this context, is a free blog platform made available to whoever wants it free of charge (FOC) by Google.  All you need do is to own an account with Google usually an email account or any of their numerous accounts such as youtube, Google+ and so on.

Below are guidelines on how to own a blogger account:

1. In your browser, go to gmail.com
2. Click on create an account to get your email id and password.  This can also be done using your phone.
3. Go to blogger.com, type in your email address and password as created above.
4. There you are. You now have a blogger account.

Follow this site as I guide you on how to set up your blogger account and how to start posting articles. Leave your comments or questions in the comment box below.