Why Blogger Is The Best Blogging Platform for the Newbies

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Most of the popular bloggers might have done some mistakes in their early step of blogging, but they learnt from their mistakes and are up and running their blogs successfully. I have seen many new bloggers(including me) struggling for traffic, AdSense Approval, etc. Many people waste large amount of money buying Domain Name and Web Host for their blogs and end up closing down the blog due to less or no traffic. Earning money from blogging is not an easy task, but I will not go to the extent saying that it is a real difficult deal for you. If you concentrate more on blogging first, and then on traffic and other stuff, then you’ll be able to build a successful blog. Nowadays a blogger has many options of Blogging Platforms- Wordpress being the most popular one. But if you’re a new blogger, I would recommend you to test your skills first before wasting your hard earned money. In this Article, I will tell you how Google Blogger can be beneficial to you, if you’re new to blogging or have just heard the name.

• Free Hosting and sub domain name(.blogspot.com).
• Your Blog will be hosted on Google Server- Free, Fast and Reliable. You don't need to worry for Uptime and maintenance.
• You can also use your Custom Domain for free of cost!
• There will be no forced ads on your blog.
• You're allowed to add your own AdSense ads and keep 100% of the revenue.
• The blog is all yours! You can create your own template, use a custom template or use template designer to design one.
• You can also add ads from other services like Chitika, Kontera, etc.
• Blogger is very easy to use with a simple GUI.
• Blogger has all the main services built into it so that you don't need to access any third party application. The services include Stats(Analytics), AdSense Stats, etc.
• To check your AdSense earning, you don't even need to log in to the AdSense account, you just need to click on the AdSense Tab in Blogger and you can see the stats there.
• Inserting Ads into Blogger blogs is as simple as 1-2-3 with a widget called AdSense which lets you choose ad color, format, etc without the hassle of logging into AdSense and copying the code from there.
• The Search Engine Optimization is easy to do, as you have the full access to the source of the blog- you can add Meta Tags, Insert BlogRoll, etc.
• And yes, you can anytime move to a self hosted Wordpress blog without losing Google PageRank, Posts and Traffic.
• When you're using Blogger, you don't need to have any technical Know how about coding. By this, you can concentrate more on your content than on the looks, bugs and other such stuffs.
• Free Image Hosting(Upto 1GB, it's enough for you) without any bandwidth limitations on Picasa Web.

Still can't decide? Here is a short story of a professional blogger, Amit Aggarwal, who writes at Digital Inpiration first started his blogging career on a Google Blogger Blog(for proof, click here). He has now shifted to Wordpress and is known as one of the best tech blogger online.