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Free HTTPS Support now on All Google Blogger Custom Domains

noreply@blogger.com (ajaykc86) — Tue, 3 Apr 2018 00:14:00 +0530

Free HTTPS (SSL Encryption) Now Officially Available for All Google Blogger Custom Domains

Yes, you heard absolutely right. Blogger has added free HTTPS encryption support for all Google Blogger custom domains officially.

As I had told you about 1 year ago in my previous post that, "There are possibilities that Google Blogger will release the HTTPS support for the custom domains in future".

The HTTPS feature is not yet available for the users who are using a custom domain. But this is part of Google's HTTPS Everywhere Plan, so custom domain users may also get benefits in the future.

Read it in our previous post:
15 Reasons Why Blogspot Blog is Perfect to Start Blogging #HTTPS

So now, if you have a blog on Google Blogger and you are using top label custom domain (.com, .net, .in, etc) then you can enable the HTTPS encryption on your blog. Now all the blogs which are hosted on Google Blogger are eligible for the HTTP(S) support. It is a good news for all Bloggers who are using custom domains on Google Blogger CMS, just like you and me.

And if you are not using the .com domain yet, and are planning to buy one for your Blogger blog. Then this is the right time to go ahead. You can buy your domain name from any domain registrar (Google domains, Godaddy, Bigrock, etc), and your domain will be eligible for HTTPS encryption when it is setup as Google Blogger Custom Domain. HTTPS will be officially available for your Blogger Blog, no matter from where you bought the domain. And it's absolutely free, no charges at all.

Google Domains Now Available In India See Features and Price
Earlier, official HTTPS support was available only for the Blogspot sub-domains. But now anyone can activate and use it on their Blogger Blogs, by purchasing domain names from any domain registrar. HTTPS feature is available at zero cost for every Blog which is hosted on Google Blogger. Do not miss taking advantage of this essential feature.

However, no official announcement by Google has been received so far. But when we checked 4-5 blogger blogs with custom domains, we found that the HTTPS option is officially available there for all those blogs. And the notifications for this were started appearing on the Blogger Dashboard from March 29, 2018.

What is HTTPS (SSL encryption) and Why it is essential for every Blog Website?

HTTPS stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure. HTTP(S) is the secure version of HTTP. HTTPS enabled websites uses an encrypted connection. When a visitor opens an HTTPS-enabled webpage, the communication between its browser and the website is encrypted and secure. Compared to HTTP, the data packets are encrypted in HTTPS and it secures the visitor's sensitive and confidential information.
It makes the website safe from hacking. This is one of the major reason that the most of the webmasters and Bloggers prefer HTTPS encryption over a non-encrypted HTTP for their websites.

On the other hand, HTTP is absolutely not secure. Data Packets send with HTTP are NOT encrypted.

Benefits Advantages of HTTPS Encryption (SSL Security):

Using SSL connection on Google Blogger custom domain (by activating HTTPS), can make your Blog even more secure and famous. I said famous because your blog will also get some major SEO advantages. And the SEO improvements of the Blog will make it more popular.
Here I'm describing some major advantages of HTTPS encryption.

Security:

As I already mentioned, it is the secure version of HTTP. HTTPS encrypts and secures all the communications between your browser and the website. HTTPS Encryption makes the website safe from hackers. So no data breach or leaks.

SEO:

In comparison to the normal HTTP websites, HTTPS encrypted websites get more SEO advantages. Search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, give preference to HTTPS encrypted websites instead of HTTP. It simply means encrypted websites get more benefits in the search engine rankings. This encryption will definitely help you to make the SEO even more effective.

No Security Warning on Web Browsers:

As per my knowledge, Google Chrome is the most popular and most used web browser on both desktop and mobile devices. 'Wikipedia', 'Tech Advisor' and 'W3 Counter' also confirms the same.
And from the beginning of January 2017, the most used web browser Google Chrome (56 and later versions) have begun to flag up websites which collect sensitive data like passwords or credit card information over the non-secure HTTP versions. On opening any such webpage, users get the warning "This page is not secure". But if the page is HTTPS enabled and SSL encrypted, then there will be no such security warning on the web browsers.

Users Trust:

The probability is very high that users will rely more on the HTTPS websites because they are encrypted and secured. And this will surely increase the both, traffic of your blog/website and the number of trusted site users.

Step By Step Guide with Images,

How to activate HTTPS Support on Google Blogger Custom Domain:

Step 1: Go to your Blog dashboard, and open 'Settings', and then go to 'Basic'.

Step 2: Now scroll down and find "HTTPS", then select "Yes" and enable it under the 'HTTPS Availability' option.

Step 3: Now go to "HTTPS Redirect" and do the same, select "Yes" and enable it.

See the image below for better understanding:

Now you need to wait for some time. It will take 10-30 mins to enable the HTTPS on your Blog.

Official Statement for HTTPS by Google Blogger:

If you don't use a custom domain for your blog, HTTPS is automatically turned on for your blog and the HTTPS setting is hidden. You can only see the HTTPS Redirect setting in your Blogger dashboard.

Must Required steps after activating HTTPS on Google blogger custom domain

If you are using the HTTP link anywhere on your blog website, such as Manual widgets, Feeds, etc. Then please immediately replace it with HTTPS. Otherwise they will not work.

Must add the HTTPS version of your blog to the Google Search Console, Bing webmasters, Yandex and so on.

In the Google Analytics, change your Blog Default URL from HTTP to HTTPS.

Now Link the HTTPS version of your blog to the Google Search Console property (the one you have just added in the first step).

That's it. Now wait for next few days and you will see all your data in the HTTPS version of your Google Search Console property.

Blogger Blog Limitations and Their Effects on Your Blogging

So now Google Blogger users who are using a custom domain, go ahead and activate the officially available free HTTPS support on your blog. And yeah, don't forget to complete the tasks in the above-mentioned Bonus Guide. Make sure to get the quick benefits of the essential HTTPS SSL encryption. And please let us know your thoughts on this topic and on this article. Comments are always appreciated and welcomed.

Blogger Blog Limitations and Their Effects on Your Blogging

noreply@blogger.com (ajaykc86) — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 22:28:00 +0530

Blogger is a free, easy-to-use, multi-language blogging platform. Not only for professionals, Blogspot is also a great option for the new bloggers who are just starting. You are here because you are blogging on the Blogspot platform. So you should also know about the benefits and the limitations of the Blogspot Blogger.

Check out Blogger benefits here,
15 Reasons: Why Blogspot Blogger Is Best to Start Your Blogging Journey

16 Limits of Blogspot Blogs and Their Impacts on Your Blogging

Good or bad, there is a limit to everything, just like that, blogger also has some limitations. Except few of these limits, all other limits are very normal. Your blogging does not have any negative effect from these limits. You might be thinking that if there is no bad effect, then what is the need to know. I would like to say that if you start any work, know as much about it as possible, this will remove half of your problems. So today we will discuss the limitations of blogger. Let's take a look at these limitations.

Limitations of blogger blogs you should know:

For your convenience, I am dividing these Blogspot limitations into 3 categories. Accounts, Blog and Posts limitations.

Blogger Account Limits:

1. Age Limit:

To create an account on Blogger, your age limit should be at least 13 years.

Impact: No problem, even many people do not have the internet access till the age of 15. Well, if you are facing this limit then you can request your parents to make your blog.

2. Number of Maximum Blogs per Account:

You cannot create more than 100 blogs on a single Blogger account.

Impact: Not a concern, is this number is low for you? For me, it is more than sufficient. Well, it's a matter of thinking, if I cannot update and maintain all, then what is the use of such 100 blogs? And if I have the ability to update and maintain 100 blogs regularly. So can't I create a new Google Account ???

Blogger Blog Limits:

1. Blog Description Length:

The Blogspot blog's description should not exceed 500 characters.

Effect: No Problem, 500 characters are enough to describe a blog.

2. Blog Content Limit (size):

The blog content of every page i.e. posts, archive pages, static pages and home page should be up to a maximum of 1MB.

Impact: No problem, if you are providing quality content then there is no need to think about it. It is very difficult to cross the content limits of 1 MB (if you care about your readers).

3. Number of Blog Labels:
Previously, you could have use 2,000 unique labels on a blog. But now this limit has been increased up to 5,000 unique labels per blog.

Effect: Not a big issue. Blog labels should be used as minimal as possible for the blog posts. Too many labels have negative effects on your blog, especially on related posts, breadcrumbs, sitemaps etc.

4. Multiple Blog Authors:
On the blogger blog, you can add a total of 100 Authors (Including the owner). These may include Team Members, Technical Helper, Moderator etc.

Effect: None, these numbers are quite a lot.

5. Private Blog Membership Limit:

You can invite 100 members on your private blog. And these 100 members also include administrators and the authors.

Impact: No Problem, if you want to invite more than 100 members, ask yourself a question, "Is it really a private blog?".

6. Favicon Size Limit:

You can use any image for favicon on the blogger blog. Favicon image size should be less than 100 KB.

Impact: No Problem, not only favicon image but all the images used in the blog should be lower in size. This will increase you blog page load speed (Better SEO).

Blogger Post Limits:

1. Number of Posts:

There is no limit for the posts in Blogger, you can write and publish as much as you like. Yes, there is a limit for daily posting, you can only publish 50 posts per day. After that, you will have to go through the check process.

Effect: Not at all, if you publish a single quality post per day, I believe it is enough. Secondly, you have to publish regular posts for good traffic and better rankings. More than 50 quality posts daily, is this possible? If yes, then how long?

2. Post Length:

There is no limit on post length. From Google's perspective, long posts can be beneficial. But if your post has 2500-3000 words, it could force the visitor to leave your blog. Therefore, posts will be good between the minimum 400 words and the maximum 1500 words.

3. Number of Static Pages:

Also known as Blogger Page or Static Page. Before 2014, the maximum page limit for a blog was 20. But this limit has been removed from 2014. Now you can publish as many pages as you like on your blog.

4. Number of Post Labels:

The maximum labels limit for a post is 20 unique labels (not more than 200 characters).

Effect: None, 20 unique labels are enough for a post. Well, blog labels should be used as minimal as possible for the blog posts. Too many labels may impact negatively on many places, such as on the Related Posts, Breadcrumbs, Sitemaps etc.

5. Storage Limit of Pictures:

Blogger provides total storage of 1GB for photos and videos, which is shared with Picasa. When you upload pictures using "Insert Image" to your posts, these pictures are stored on your Picasa account.

Impact: Well, 1GB storage for pictures is quite large. But if you are a photo blogger then you will need more images on your blog, so there may be a problem. But there is also a solution to this problem. This 1GB storage capacity can be increased up to 15 GB. For this, you have to upgrade to Google +. This extended storage will be shared with your Gmail and Google Drive, which is enough for the storage of pictures.

If you want to increase storage even further, the option of "Buy more" is also available. Using this link, you can check your free storage usage and also purchase an additional storage.

6. Size of photos:

The images uploaded from the blog post editor should be of maximally 8 Mb size, and 1600px in resolution. Any larger image than this will be resized up to 1600px. And if you are uploading pictures from your mobile, then size should not exceed 250 KB.

Impact: It is OK with the post editor. But there is a slight problem on the mobile if you are running a photo blog then. But if you want a better blog performance, then you should upload the images in the minimum size by resizing them. This will increase the page load speed of the blog and save your free storage too.

7. Video Size Limit in Blogger:

With the Blogger post editor, you cannot upload a video that is more than 100MB in size. In short, Blogger does not allow you to upload a video of more than 100 MB.

Effect: No Problem, YouTube is the solution to this problem. Upload your video directly to YouTube and embed it on your blog.

8. Number of Comments and Their Length:

There is no limit on the number of comments. Unlimited comments can be made on one post. But the length of the comment should not exceed 4,096 characters. And yes the administrator can hide or close the comments at any time.

So these are the major limits of Blogger, which includes Blogger account, blog and post limits. Let me know, what you think about this post. The comment box is waiting for you as well as me too. Subscribe us and get notifications of the new posts right in your Inbox.

Google Domains Now Available In India See Features Prices

noreply@blogger.com (ajaykc86) — Sun, 9 Apr 2017 17:00:00 +0530

Google Domains Service is Now Available in India With Best Features And Cheap Prices

Good news for Bloggers and Website owners, "Google Domains" has now become available in India as well. Earlier it was only available on US billing address. But now with the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, this service is also available in India.

By Purchase a Domain from Google domains, you can use it on any platform/website. But if you are an Indian and blogging on Blogspot, then surely you will be waiting for Google Domains to be launched in India. So your wait ends now. Google has started the Google Domains service on Indian Billing Addresses from April 6, 2017.

What is Google Domains?

Google Domains is a Domain Registration service provided by Google. It was publicly launched in the United States in 2014. Currently, this service is in beta phase. This service was earlier available only in three countries United States, United Kingdom, and Canada. And now, from April 2017, Google Domains is also available in India.

The Google Domains service is very easy and affordable in use. It can be used very easily in comparison to "GoDaddy" or any other domain registrar. It supports many top Website builders. You can integrate Google Domains easily with many CMS platforms or Websites, like Blogspot, Wix, Shopify, Squarespace and Weebly.

Google Domains Key Features

Free Private Registration Option

Private registration means, your name, address and other contact information will not be disclosed to the public. Google Domains allows you to transfer or register a domain with free private registration option (no additional cost). While other domain registrar charges you for the private registration.

Free Branded Email Addresses

With a Google domain, you can create up to 100 email addresses for free, such as contact@your-website, sales@your-website etc. And you can also forward the incoming emails of those email ids to your existing email account. While other domain registrar charges you for Branded Email addresses.

Easy Domain Forwarding

With this feature, you can forward your domain name to an existing domain and website.

Customizable Sub-Domains

You can easily customize your domain with up to 100 sub-domains, such as blog.your-website.com, offers.your-website.com. In short, this feature will allow you to create unique pages within your website under different sub-domains.

Simple and Easy Domain Management Tools

Google Domains offers a full set of easy to use, simple, and robust domain management tools:

Add and manage resource records: A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS, PTR, SPF, SRV, TXT.
Use Google Synthetic Records for integration with Google App Engine, sub-domain forwarding, and G Suite setup.
Add and manage name servers
Configure TTL
Domain locking

Easily Integrate With Top Website Builders

After new purchase or transfer of a domain from Google domains, you can instantly start creating your website with top website builders like Blogspot, Wix, Weebly, Spotify, and Squarespace. For this feature, you have to pay an additional hosting cost as per the website builder rates.

More Than 215 Domain Name Extensions Available

On Google Domains you can choose your domain name from more than 215 domain name extensions. Like (.com), (.reviews), (.site), (.tech) etc. And maybe this list becomes even longer in the future.

Check Google Domains Pricing and supported TLDs list below:
All Google Domains TLDs and their Prices

Cheap And Affordable Domain Prices

From Google Domains you can buy domains on per year registration price on the basis of domain extensions. Rates for different domain extensions will be different. A (.com) domain is available in only 860 INR ($12 Approximately), where on the other hand for a (.tech) domain you would have to spend 2,150 INR ($40 Approximately). Renewal price of any domain will be the regular market value of that domain. This means, at present, you can renew the .com domain for Rs 860.

24x7 Support

The Google Domains Support Team is available every day. 24 hours/day by chat and email. And phone support is available from 6:00 AM to 9:00 PM US Pacific time.

How To Get Domain Name From Google Domains For Your Blogspot Blog

Blogspot Bloggers can now purchase a domain from Google Domains and integrate it with their blog. To check whether the Google domain is available to you, open the 'Settings' in the 'Blogspot Dashboard'. Then go to 'Publishing' under the 'Basic' option. Here you can see the option "Buy a Domain", just below your blog address. Click on "Buy a Domain", select your domain, and follow the further instructions.

For more information and setup instructions, see here:
How to Use a custom domain on Blogspot

Google Domains is currently accepting only international credit or debit cards for payments on Indian billing address.

Buy Domain from Google Domains

So guys, what is your opinion about Google Domains. Would you like to purchase a domain for your Blogspot Blog from Google Domains? Comments are always welcome.

15 Reasons Why Blogger Blogspot is Perfect to Start Blogging

noreply@blogger.com (ajaykc86) — Sun, 9 Apr 2017 00:44:00 +0530

Why Blogspot Blogger is a Perfect Free Platform to start Blogging?

If you want to start blogging, or planning a blog for the future. And you are confused on the question that which CMS platform would be better for Blogging. Blogspot, Wordpress, Wix, Tumblr or any other. So this post/article is only and only for you.

There are many free services (CMS) available for blogging. But two blog-publishing services are the best and both are used by most of the bloggers, and they are "Blogger aka Blogspot" and "Wordpress". Both have their own advantages, as well as the users have different views about both. And here I am going to share my experience with you. Of course, WordPress is slightly advanced in comparison to Blogger. But for the beginning of blogging, there is no better option than Blogspot, why? Let's know.

Why Should you Start Blogging with Google Blogger (aka Blogspot): 15 Major Reasons in Detail

1. Brand Name - Blogspot Blogger is Owned by Internet Giant Google

Whenever we hear the word "Google", it sounds familiar and we can trust it. Blogger is a product of Google since 2003, and it is available free for new and old bloggers like us. Almost every new blogger, which is a successful blogger today has started with the blogger platform. In the initial period, when new bloggers do not have much knowledge about blogging. In such, Blogspot is a great choice for blogging.

2. Free - Blogger is a Completely Free Blogging Platform (Even on Using Custom Domain)

Creating a blog on Blogger is absolutely free, no hidden charging. Nor need to create a separate account for this. It is accessed through your Gmail account. The blogs created on Blogger come under the blogspot.com sub-domain. This means that your blog's domain name will be www.example.blogspot.com. But if you want, then you can buy a custom domain. By purchasing a custom domain you can use .com, .net or any other blog address for your blog, instead of "blogspot.com". By doing so, you only have to pay for the domain name, Blogger does not charge for custom domain. The custom domain feature is free on Blogger.

3. Easy to Use - Blogger is Very Easy to Create, Use and Handle

Creating, using and managing Blogspot blog is very easy. Open www.blogger.com, and log in with your Gmail credentials. Create your own Blogger profile or you can also use your Google+ profile. Then click on "Create New", and type Blog name and domain name of your new blog. Finally, click on "Create Blog", and your new blog is ready.
Now you are on the Blogger Dashboard, here you can customize your new blog. You can make changes and updates in posting, design, layout, templates, search preferences, etc.

4. SEO - Easy Methods to Make Your Blog SEO Optimized

The word "SEO" is very big in itself. But here we are talking about the "On Page SEO". Many times it is heard that the Blogger platform is not SEO optimized. But think yourself, how can it be that the Blogger platform is not SEO optimized, even though it is Google's own product? That Google, who is the biggest and famous search engine. Yes, SEO plugins are not available in blogger, but this does not mean that Blogger cannot be optimized for SEO. Website or Blog traffic depends on your SEO Knowledge, not on Blogspot, WordPress or any other platform. To make your blog SEO optimized, you have to do some minor changes to the Blogger template.

For On Page SEO, all you have to do is add SEO Meta Tags, Blog Search Description, Page Not Found, Custom Redirects, Robots.txt, etc to the blog template/theme. And take care of the post titles, headings, descriptions, image tags, nofollow attributes, permalink etc. Use all of these properly in the posts. Also be sure to submit your blog to the Major Search Engines and Directories. In the case of indexing, Blogger blogs are indexed faster than any other blogs/websites on Google search engines. Some of my blogs have good rankings in Google search after applying all these settings. After all, blogger is Google's product and it will have some advantages for it.

5. Secured - Highly Secure and Now HTTPS Enabled

If you use Blogger for blogging, you will get an extra benefit of Google's strong and reliable security. You do not have to worry about the security of your blog and the management of the servers. Hacking Google's servers is not an easy job, hackers can only harm your blog if your password is leaked. But you can use 2-Step Verification to avoid password stealing.
And just recently, with the 'HTTPS' feature, Blogger has become even more secure and trusted. Google has added 'HTTPS' to all blogs that are using the blogspot domain. Blogspot domain users now have the option to enable 'HTTPS' on their blogs. If a user enable HTTPS on his blog, then his blog will be viewed over a secure version. The HTTPS feature is not yet available for the users who are using a custom domain. But this is part of Google's HTTPS Everywhere Plan, so custom domain users may also get benefits in the future.

Update:

Yes, you heard absolutely right. Blogger has added free HTTPS encryption support for all Google Blogger custom domains officially. Read full news article from the below link.

Free HTTPS Support now on All Google Blogger Custom Domains

Date: 03 Aril, 2018

6. Bandwidth + Traffic Handling - Unlimited Bandwidth With 99.9% Server Up-time

It is very important for any blog or website to stay online for 24x7. At the same time, should also have the ability to handle maximum traffic. Blogger gets 9.9/10 points on both of these two standards. Because of Google's servers, Blogspot blog can handle millions of traffic and that too free of charge. And not only free but with 99.9% server up-time. You do not need to think about bandwidth and server, if you are on a blogspot blogger.

7. Storage - Enough Storage for Pictures and can be Increased

Blogger provides 1 GB of total storage for pictures, which is shared with Picasa. When you upload pictures to your posts, these pictures are stored on your Picasa account. This limited storage can be increased up to 15GB. For this you have to upgrade to Google Plus. This extended storage is shared with your Gmail and Google Drive, which is enough for a blogger.

8. Integration - Google Products integration with Blogger

Google has integrated many of its products with Blogger, which has direct benefit to the Bloggers. Most of the useful Google products such as Google +, YouTube, Adsense, AdWords, Picasa Web, Google Places, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Analytics, Google Webmaster, FeedBurner etc are already integrated with Blogger. They can be used with ease in blogger and you can refine your blogging further. And the best thing about it is that all of these products can be accessed through a single Google Account.

9. Stats - Know your Blog Visitors with Blog Stats, Analytics and Search Console

Blogger users can collect their traffic information with the help of Blogger Inbuilt Stats. Blogger allows you to check the Pageviews (Today, Yesterday, Last month, All Time), Postviews, Traffic Sources (Referring URLs, Sites, Search Keywords), Audience (By country, browser, Operating System) etc. And if you need more detailed statistics, then you can keep an eye on your traffic details by linking your blog directly to Google Analytics and Google Search Console.

10. AdSense - Blogger Supports Google AdSense (Easy Approval and Access)

Blogger fully supports Google AdSense and the AdSense Earning tab is present in the left panel of the dashboard. From here, you can directly apply to AdSense. Compared to other websites, Blogspot blogs are easily approved for Adsense. The condition is that your blog does not violate any terms and policies of Google Adsense and meets their guidelines.
After approval, your Hosted AdSense account is created. With this hosted account, you can put Adsense Ads on your other hosted blogs. By accessing the Layout tab of the Blogger Dashboard you can directly add Adsense widgets to your blog. By drag and drop the widgets, you can place the ads on your desired slot in the layout (header, sidebar, below post etc). And if in the future you have to put ads on your website other than Blogger blog, then it can also be applied for. If your new website wouldn't get approved, in such a situation, it does not make any difference to the advertisements on your blogger blogs, they work same as before.

11. Adwords - Enhance your Blog Audience with Adwords

Every Blogger wants to increase visitors on his blog, everyone wants traffic. The best way to increase visitors to your blog is to create content that is useful, demanding, and post it regularly. But in addition to organic visitors, you can increase the traffic of your blog, using Google AdWords. Google AdWords option is present on the Blogger Dashboard. With the help of AdWords, you can create ads of your blog and promote the blog through them.

12. Languages - Multiple Language Publishing Support

Blogger is available in 60 different languages. Supported languages are: Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Basque, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (United Kingdom), English (United States), Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish (Latin America), Spanish (Spain), Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Zulu.
This list has been updated last on April, 2017.

13. Widgets - 3rd Party Widgets Support

There are many widgets available in Blogger that allow you to make your blog even more beautiful, easy-to-use, and advanced. You can also create your own widgets and submit them to Blogger.

14. Customization - Add or Edit Custom HTML, CSS and Javascript

In Blogspot Blogger you can add stylesheets, edit the template/theme, and also you can edit or add HTML, CSS and Javascript in the template. Means, the Blogger blog design is in your hands.

15. Trusted - One of the oldest and most trusted blogging platforms

Blogspot Blogger is one of the oldest blog-publishing platforms. Blogger was launched by ‘Pyra Labs’ in 1999. And in 2003, Pyra Labs was bought by Google. And since then Google is running the Blogspot platform and making it better by continuously updating.

Now at the end of this post I would like to advise you, please do not stay with the Blogspot domain (sub-domain) for a long time. Replace it with a new custom domain as soon as possible. It does not matter whether the new custom domain is .com, .net or anything else. Our purpose is just to get a custom domain. If in the future Google delete your blog for any reason, then you can move your blog to Wordpress with the help of your domain name and the backups taken by you. But if you do not purchase a custom domain and your blog gets deleted, then you will lose your blog completely. And you will have to start again with empty hands.

So these are the key features of Google Blogger blogspot, and I would recommend you free blogspot blogger platform to start blogging. Now the decision is in your hands. Take it or leave it. Final Decision is yours, take your time to decide.