Best methods on How to create an e-commerce website with blogger.
Blogger is a hosting service provided by Google for all bloggers who want to create a simple blog with little customization. Blogger does not have all the plug-in and customizations like WordPress but there are techniques to make a blogger blog look more professional and I will explain in details to you.
An e-commerce website is a platform where people can buy and sell products or services online. It's like a virtual marketplace where you can browse through various items, add them to your cart, and make purchases using different payment methods. It's a convenient way to shop from the comfort of your home! If you want, I can even show you some cool examples of e-commerce websites!
How to create an e-commerce website on google blogger.
First we need a host and also a domain name for our store.
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What's a host: This is a service that contains the storage of your website and also allows you to edit and customize your website and enables your website to go live on the internet. There are many hosting providers but we will be talking only about blogger (WordPress, wix, infinity free, bluehost, Google sites etc are excluded in this tutorial).
So we will use blogger as our host.
What's a domain name: This is a piece of word/code that will map a website or identify a particular area on the internet that is been own by someone and only the person have access to it back end. There are many domain providers on the internet, some offer paid services while some offer free services examples of paid domain providers are Google, GoDaddy, namecheap etc. An example of free domain hosting provider is freenom.
With freenom.com you can get a free .tk, .ml, ga domain names for free and they also have paid domains but will base on the free domain but if you want a qualified e-commerce website you can go for .com, .net, .com.ng and other domain names. Just go to any domain provider and get your domain name ready and note when choosing your domain name always choose a name that is related to what your website niche is base on because it will make your website more easier to find.
In order to make your e-commerce website look more professional, head over to gooyaabitemplates.com or btemplates.com and get a store template, you can download the free version or the paid version that has some additional customizations in it.
Blogger offers free templates but they don't look more professional on an e-commerce website, they look like old websites.
Use any file extractor to unzip the the template zip file to get the xml file of the template then rename the xml file so as to ensure that you don't get confused when you want to upload the template.
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Now that you have gotten your domain ready, you need a host and the host that we will be using is blogger.com head over to blogger.com on your browser and sign in with your Gmail account, if you don't have a Gmail account you won't be able to use this service because it is owned by Google.
Everything is free that is a free Gmail account and also free blog host.
Steps in creating an e-commerce website on blogger
1. Type in your blog name
2. Type in your blog address
3. Type the blog display name.
Open your website editor or back end, go to themes and click on the drop-down menu then click restore to upload your downloaded template and make sure to upload the xml file of the template that you renamed, in the upload section and wait for some seconds for the template to restore.
You can now preview your blog to see how the template looks like on your website.
Head over to the layout pallet to edit the functions and, categorize your blog to make it look more professional. Implement your own logo and links in the template because the ones present in the template are not yours. Make sure you create the following pages; about us, contact us and privacy policy.
Head over to any business button provider like PayPal business account to get your buy now and add to cart button.
Setup your product price there and get the button HTML code, head over to your blogger dashboard create a post with your product picture, then go to The HTML part of your post and paste the HTML code of your button there. After that, you can then publish the post and preview it. Do the same for all your products and make sure any post contain one picture of your product and description.
Now you have to setup the domain name of your store because at first it was example.blogspot.com now you have to connect your own .com or any domain to your store go to settings click on custom domain name and put the one you own, follow the instructions given to you there to setup your domain name and connect it to your store.
Don't bother about the http part of your store, because blogger will provide it for you just turn on the http tick turn on box.
You can do other things in your settings because it's simple just follow any instructions they give to you,
Blogspot SEO(Search engine optimization)
You can then add your store to Google web Masters to get organic traffic from search results. You can also add the store to Google analytics to track the traffic of your visitors and how they interact on your store.
In other to add your store to Google web Masters, just head over to Google search console in your blogger settings (check in settings) and login under the same Gmail that you are using, this will help to ensure that you are the owner of the website.
Add your store domain name in the domain part which is the first part. Once you click the done/add button your ownership will auto verify because you have login with the same Gmail associated to your blogger account.
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Then you can go to the property and track your performance in search results.
In other to add your blog to Google analytics, just go to
analytics.google.com add your property name and domain name, choose web and give your site domain name, they will give you an HTML code to add to your store theme or header. Copy the code and paste it in the header of your theme in the HTML. Just go to your theme click on the drop down menu and select edit HTML and paste the code where it says header in the HTML panel and this can be done in all blog niches.
Hope these steps were helpful. Just put them into practice and enjoy the good work of google blogger.