Setting up your free vacation home blog

Since my last blog was, Why create a website for your vacation home...Use a Blog.  Today i am going to show you how to set-up a free vacation home blog using Google's Blogger.   This is a free blog platform provided by Google. 

• The first step is to create an account with Google is you don't already have one.  You will need an existing email address for this.  If you don't have an email address.  You can try Gmail.  The account set-up screen is about 6 areas to fill in.
• Then you move to name of your blog:  This is important:  Name of your blog is one of the keys to achieving good search engine optimization.  For this test mine is:  High Cotton Oceanfont Home Nags Head.  The elements I wanted to include in the title are: Name of the Home, location (east-west), and location (by town).  
• The next field is  blog url or address.  Again you want the blog's url to be relative to something people would search.  Often people will remember the name of your home especially if it is catchy or a phrase.  My blur url is: http://highcotton.blogspot.com.  For those that are a little more technical, Blogger offers the ability to use your own domain.  If you can set it up.  i definitely would recommend your own domain.
• Choose a template:  Pick something that will showcase your home.  For most people lighter templates are definitely better.  My template choice was: scribe. 
• After choosing your template you are ready to start creating your vacation home blog.  Here is mine.  Next we will be going through the set-up.

Well follow these simple steps and you'll be ready for the next installment setting up your blog.  If you have any questions you can contact me.