Step by step process to create a free blog on your own FTP within your web template
What is Blog?
Blog is short for weblog. A weblog is a frequently updated journal (or newsletter) intended for consumption by the general public. They are usually updated daily by software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog.
Why blog?
As its definition, it helps to post news updates, promote new products and services, as well as different opinions from various experts who participate in blogs. Many companies today open a blog section to sell products, for customer service and post-sale support. Business blogs are the fast track to increasing a website’s link popularity and Google PageRank.
Link exchanges between topic-related blogs are frequent and not difficult at all. Please note that bloggers exchange links primarily for visitor traffic purposes and not for search engine optimization. Link exchanges generally need to be approached from the traffic sharing perspective.
Blogs also provide an exclusive listing of high PageRank blog directories. Although they maintain their exclusivity in the exclusive blog directories of the Internet, blogs are welcome in the main Internet directories. In that sense, blogs get the best of both worlds.
Website owners, who are serious about not only improving the number of inbound links, but also the relevant quality of their topic, should seriously consider adding a business blog component to their website.
Blog setup on blogger.com
Blogs can be created from the bloggers site, as well as from the FTP itself (websites). People who do not have a website can create a blog directly from the bloggers site. But those who have their own site, can also create blogs from their own FTP with the help of blogger.com.
Blogger.com is the most popular blog creator in the world of blogging. Although hundreds of sites offer free blogs, blogger.com is the most popular due to its features and functions. Creating a blog from your own FTP using Blogger.com is somewhat technical and for the first time it takes some time and trial and error to upload to blogs from your own FTP.
Starting from this article, I would like to define step-by-step procedures with examples to help you blog in a few easy steps in less time.
URL to create free blog on your own FTP: http://www.blogger.com/
Steps to set up blogs on your own FTP:
1. Create a new account
2. Choose a template
3. Redesign the existing template
4.FTP Configuration
5. Post message
6. Blogs published
(1) Some steps to create a new blog as follows:
Click the “Create a new blog now” button
Create an account
Give the blog a title like “PPC Articles”
Provide blog address as ppcarticles.blogspot.com (must be unique)
Choose the template and continue from the bottom click button
Receive the message “Your blog is created” and start publishing
Get Blogger editor to write the message
give the title
write the message
From the bottom, click the “Publish Post” button
(2)Custom template design:
After creating a blog as mentioned above,
First create your own template. To do that, click on the “Control Panel” which will take you to the main page of our account.
Here you will find the “blog name” in the “Blogs” category.
Click on any created blog you want to edit with your own template.
Click on “PPC Articles”
Here you will find four main categories in the top navigation.
Are, Posing, Atmosphere, Template, View Blog
Click on the “Template” which will take you to the current template code.
Here, you can edit your template based on your site design.
You can create a custom template using this html code editor wizard.
Note: When designing the custom template, it is mandatory to put all “blog tags” between &
After designing a new template, click “Save changes to template.”
After clicking, you get a message: “Settings saved successfully”
Below the “Settings saved successfully” message, you will find two buttons “Republish” (to republish the entire blog) and “Republish Index” (to republish only the index page)
Click the “Republish” button.
After clicking, you will get the message “Publishing is in progress”.
After a few seconds, you will get the new message on the same page, “Your blog was published successfully”.
Note: If you get an error, check the “details” after the “failed to publish blog” message.
(3) FTP configuration
Click the “Settings” button at the top of a page navigation.
Here, you will find the sub-navigation under “Settings” like, Basic, Post, Format, Comments, Archiving, Site Feed, Email, Members
Click “Publish.”
Here you will find two options like SFTP or blogspot.com
Click on SFTP again, which will take you to the page where you can provide your FTP server details.
Complete the full wizard as mentioned below. This wizard appears when selecting the “SFTP” option.
Set the details to publish the content in a new folder called “blogger” under the root folder in the FTP of the website.
FTP server: yourdomain.com
Note: Do not include http:// or ftp:// in the server address.
Blog URL: http://www.yourdomain.com/blogger/
Note: The web address where you can see this blog. This must include http://
FTP path: blogger/
Note: This path must already exist on your server.
Blog File Name: semarticles.html
Note: If this file already exists on your server at the path entered above, it will be OVERWRITTEN. Be sure to make a backup.
FTP Username: abcd
FTP Password: *********
Working URL like: http://www.yourdomain.com/blogger/ppcararticles.html (From FTP server blogger folder)
Configure the details to place the content directly in the root folder and publish it.
FTP server: yourdomain.com Note: Do not include http:// or ftp:// in the server address.
Blog URL: http://www.yourdomain.com/ogger/ (remove the “blogger” folder name from this URL) Note: The web address where this blog can be viewed. This must include http://
FTP Path: blogger/ (Keep this field empty) Note: This path must already exist on your server.
Blog File Name: ppcarticles.html
Note: If this file already exists on your server at the path entered above, it will be OVERWRITTEN. Be sure to make a backup.
FTP Username abcd
FTP Password *********
Working URL like: http://www.yourdomain.com/ppcararticles.html (From the root of the FTP server)
Configure the details to place the content in an existing folder and publish it.
FTP server: yourdomain.com Note: Do not include http:// or ftp:// in the server address.
Blog URL: http://www.yourdomain.com/general/ (Place the name of an existing folder here)
Note: The web address where you can see this blog. This must include http://.
FTP Path: general/ (Place the name of an existing folder here)
Note: This path must already exist on your server.
Blog File Name: ppcarticles.html Note: If this file already exists on your server at the path entered above, it will be OVERWRITTEN. Be sure to make a backup.
FTP Username abcd
FTP Password *********
Working URL like: http://www.yourdomain.com/general/ppcararticles.html (From any existing FTP server folder)
After providing an FTP server username and password, click “Save Settings” at the bottom of the page.
After clicking, a message will appear: “The settings were saved successfully.”
Below the “Settings saved successfully” message, you will find two buttons “Republish” (to republish the whole blog) and “Republish Index” (to republish just the index page).
Click the “Republish” button.
After clicking, you will get the message “Publishing is in progress”.
After a few seconds, you will get the new message on the same page, “Your blog was published successfully”.
Note: If you get an error, check the “details” after the “failed to publish blog” message.
(4) Change blog from one FTP to another FTP
To switch existing blogs from one FTP to another FTP, it is required to change only the FTP details in the “blogger” admin panel.
For that,
Log in to the same blogger account from where you have already published the blogs.
Click the “Settings” button at the top of a page navigation.
Here, you will find the sub-navigation under “Settings” like, Basic, Post, Format, Comments, Archiving, Site Feed, Email, Members
Now click “Publish”.
Here you will find two options like SFTP or blogspot.com
Click on SFTP again, which will take you to the page where you can provide your FTP server details.
Follow the steps mentioned in point no. 3 above, to change the FTP details of the blog.
Replace the existing FTP server details with new FTP details. The details of this new FTP server will create a new URL to view the blogs.
For example,
[http://www.yourdomain1.com/blogger/ppcarticles.html] (URL after changing to a new FTP)
[http://www.yourdomain1.com/ppcarticles.html] (URL after changing to a new FTP)
The example URLs above replace the following URLs
http://www.yourdomain.com/blogger/ppcararticles.html (URL before changing a new FTP)
http://www.yourdomain.com/ppcararticles.html (URL before changing a new FTP)
After providing a new FTP server username and password, click “Save Settings” at the bottom of the page.
After clicking, a message will appear: “The settings were saved successfully.”
Below the “Settings saved successfully” message, you will find two buttons “Republish” (to republish the whole blog) and “Republish Index” (to republish just the index page).
Click the “Republish” button.
After clicking, you will get the message “Publishing is in progress”.
After a few seconds, you will get the new message on the same page, “Your blog was published successfully”.
Any changes or posting of updates will be reflected directly in the URLs.