New to Blogspot!.. Some Cool Tips to create a blog

Tips to setup your first blog on blogspot.com:

1. Sign into blogspot.com with your Google Account, if not create a Google account for yourself and proceed.
2. Create a blog id (like http://installjournal.blogspot.com/). You can create any number of blogs with Google account and can make them public (which can be searched by search engines) or private.
3. Choose appropriate blog template and all set for blogging. Any time you can change the blog template to change the look and feel of your website. Further there are plenty of blog templates available for free on the web.
   [Note: Please make sure to take a backup of the existing template before changing to a new one.]
4. How does your blog reader contact you? Sharing the email directly might lead to lots of spam’s too and not a general practice either. Go for Contact Forms. - there are plenty of them readily available and added to your blog in no time.
   I have used www.kontactr.com and its very simple. Here you go to integrate it with your blog.
• Register with Kontactr
• Copy the Script say something like this, but ID might be different for your registration
  <script type="text/javascript"> id = ID; </script>
  <script type="text/javascript" src="http://kontactr.com/wp.js"></script>
  
  
• Modify Post options by using some old date for the Contact Form post, disable / hide comments & Back links.
• Publish it. Your Contact Form is ready.
5. FeedBurner - FeedBurner makes it easy to receive content updates in My Yahoo!, Newsgator, Bloglines, and other news readers.
   Register your blog with FeedBurner and add your feed address (say http://feeds.feedburner.com/installjournal) in your blog. Once this is set, Subscribe To in your blog can take the reader to the feed burner URL.
6. Google Analytics -Register with Google Analytics using your Google account and add the code provided to your template just before the tag. Google analytics will help you to monitor the traffic over your website or blog even to individual page level, time spent on each site etc.,
   The code would look similar to this, where you would need to replace XXXX-X with you Analytics ID / No.
   <script type="text/javascript">
   var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : http://www/);
   document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
   </script>
   <script type="text/javascript">
   try{
         var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-XXXX-X");
         pageTracker._trackPageview();
   } catch(err) {}
   </script>
   
   
7. Google Adsense - Google AdSense is the program that can give you advertising revenue from each page on your website—with a minimal investment in time and no additional resources. If you feel you have enough web pages with good number of readers, Of course you register and start with Google Adsense.
8. Wondering about losing your articles / data that you have published? No Worries! Google does regular backup.
   It’s better to save your template xml, which you might overwrite sometime and would end up losing all the configurations, that you have done in all the previous steps.

Thank you Vijay for your inputs. Hence forth, you can refer this article instead of explaining for the newbie's.