Blogger was created by Pyra Labs in 1999. Blogging was not so BIG at that time. Blogger was just another internet application. But the team of three at that time had no idea what they had created and where it is going to end or if it will ever end? Blogger can be regarded as a beginning of blogging era. Blogger was easy to use and free. So huge crowd jumped on the blogging bandwagon. Each person had his/her own reason to start blog. But this triggered the insane rush to blogger.
But it is important to know what exactly is blogger? A website? A software? A blogging platform? Yes...blogger is content management system. Seems a technical jargon? In simple terms, blogger is a program that does all the work to publish your content on internet. Blogs unlike traditionally static websites are arranged in reversed chronological orders. We just have to type in our content and it is published on internet in just one click. So blogger basically gives you the space online where you can establish yourself.
To start your own blog is just simple and free. Any one can become a blogger...but to be a successful blogger, it needs painstaking efforts. There are many factors that governs your success in blogosphere. You will explore each of them while you read this guide!
In 2003, Google realized the potential blogger had. Google bought out blogger from Pyra Labs. Google was at right place at the right time. While Google was major player in search engines, it was all set to expand itself. Blogger was already popular and when it had a name of Google along...it benefited both - Google as well as Blogger. Google invested time and money so that it can sustain the competition with other blogging platforms. They still keep adding new features. The blogger that you see today was not the way it is.
Google also bought out YouTube and created many other products like Google analytics which can easily be integrated with blogger. We shall see all of them and how to sue them with blogger.
Below is the list of all Google products that are invaluable for any blogger:
- Google Docs
- Youtube
- Gmail
- Google Adsense
- Google Video
- Feedburner
- Picasa
- Google Earth
