Setting Up Your Blog
In this session, I’m going to show you How To Create a Blog in Systeme.io For Free. Now, this is going to be a very powerful blog that can rank in Google.
Signing Up
You can customize it however you like, and you could do this all for free with systeme.io. So, I’ll leave a link to systeme.io in the description. Go ahead and click on it, and it will take you to this page here, where we can go ahead and sign up. It’s free forever, and no credit card is required. So, go ahead and sign in, and that will take you to the dashboard.
Choosing Your Blog Template
Now, for the name of my blog, I’m just going to call it “YouTube Tutorial,” and we’re then going to select a template.
Template Customization
They have quite a lot of different templates that you can choose from. For the video, I’ll just go ahead and run with this one, but you can preview these templates and select whichever one you want.
Blog Creation Limitation
So, I’ve already had a play around with this and created one test blog, but you want to go to create, and here you can then enter the name of your blog and choose a domain name. By default, you won’t have any domain names connected. I just connected one for a tutorial, but you can connect domain names for free.
Domain Connection
If you have a domain name, you can connect it for free. You don’t even have to upgrade to a paid plan to connect the domain name. If you don’t have a domain name, though, and you want to run with the systeme.io subdomain, your username is going to be put in front of systeme.io. So when you sign up, make sure your username is something related to your blog. You can change this later, though, so don’t stress too much.
Blog and Template Customization
Now for the name of my blog, I’m just going to call it “YouTube Tutorial,” and we’re then going to select a template. They have quite a lot of different templates that you can choose from, and for the video, I’ll just go ahead and run with this one.
First Blog Creation
So, I’ve already had a play around with this and created one test blog, but you want to go to create, and here you can then enter the name of your blog and choose a domain name. By default, you won’t have any domain names connected. I just connected one for a tutorial, but you can connect domain names for free.
Exploring the Dashboard
Now that we have our blog all up and running, we can now go ahead and click on the blog’s name, and that will take you into kind of like the dashboard where you can edit all of your blog posts, the pages, you can view your blog, and you can add categories and things like that.
Customizing the Home Page
Here are going to be the main buttons that you want to look at here. So first, I’m going to click on “View Blog,” and I’m just going to open this in a new tab. This is going to show me what my blog currently looks like without me adding any articles or without me editing it.
Customizing the Home Page Content
You can see at the top here, we’ve got a title, we’ve got some subtext here, and we’ve got an email opt-in form. Maybe you don’t want this, and that’s fine. I’m going to show you how to remove this as well, but we’ve got the recent articles here, and you can see this is looking all sleek, and it’s categorized here or it’s sectioned off by the different categories which we can edit when we start to obviously create these articles.
Navigating Blog Elements
You’ve also got a contact us page; you’ve got a page with just your articles, and you’ve also gotten about section. All of this can be customized. Heading back to this page here, you’ve got blog elements, you’ve got your pages here, so you’ve got the first posts and you’ve got the different pages, so your home page, the post page, your bank page, contact us page, and you’ve got categories.
Editing the Home Page
What I’m going to first do is edit the home page. So you want to go to Pages, go to the home page, and that’s going to allow you to edit the home page in the editor. So you can see here is our home page; here are our recent articles, here are our categories. Now, you can delete and edit anything on this page. Everything that you hover over, you can edit.
Customizing Home Page Text
So, let’s say we wanted to edit this text, and let’s say my blog is about, I don’t know, growing on YouTube, like how to grow on YouTube, right? So maybe I might want to type here, “Learn how to grow on YouTube,” and this looks too big, right?
Adjusting Font and Margins
So what I can do, I can highlight this text, and when you highlight or click on any element, you can edit everything on the left-hand side here. So we can bring down the font size a little bit, and we can also change the line height. Let’s say we want to change this text. We just click on it, and then I might want to put something like this: “Hi.” So maybe I want to put something like this in the subtext: “Hi, I’m Bradley; let me show you how I grew my YouTube channel to 1 million views per month.”
Adjusting Text Alignment
And we can highlight this, make this bit bold. Now, what I’m going to do here is if I click on this text, you can see here it looks like it’s kind of close to the headline. The good thing about systeme.io is you can literally edit everything. So if you scroll down here, you just want to play around with these different sliders and see what they do.
Editing Margins
But if I go to margin here, I can bring this down a little bit, and there you go; that looks a bit better. I’m also going to click on this and center this text, and I’ll also center this one. So, highlight it all and then click the center tool.
Removing Unwanted Elements
Now what I’m also going to do is remove this email opt-in because I don’t want to cover that in this video, and we can just completely remove that. That’s fine. Obviously, I might want to write more text here or add more elements. All the elements here are on the left, and you can change this however here you’ve got an image, which you can either delete if you want or maybe you can just add an image.
Customizing Images
So if you click on it, you can see “Image file,” you can then click this button and drag any of your images on here. Let me just use this one. Okay. So, yeah, so this is an image I’ve got off the internet; we’re going to insert that. And there we go. So, building out these pages is straightforward; you can change everything on the page. So, go ahead and hover over stuff, click on it, see what you can edit, and edit these things.
Saving Changes and Exiting
This is only the home page, so we can save these changes and then we can go ahead and click exit, and it’s going to take us straight back to this dashboard again. At any point, we can click “View Blog” here, and it’s going to open up our blog. So, let me just go back to home, and there you go; we can see our changes have been updated.
Writing and Publishing Articles
Now let’s look at writing articles because you can see right now we’ve just got our blog full of filler articles. For you to customize and create your blog properly, you are going to need to write like 10 or so articles because you can’t really edit a blog with no articles, right? It’s going to be blank. So, go to posts, and what you can do, you can delete these articles if you want and just like completely remove them, which I recommend. But for now, I’m just going to go ahead and create a new block, a new blog post.
Creating a New Blog Post
Here I’ll give it a title. So let’s just call it “How to Get More Views on YouTube,” and then a short description. Then we can upload an image. I’ll just choose a file, and I’ll just upload a random image. It’s not going to match the article, but it’s just for demo purposes anyway.
Setting Post Categories
Let’s just pretend this was a nice graphic of like YouTube views or something. We can then choose a category. Now these categories you can customize as well, but for now, I’m going to put it in category A. Like you can change the name of these in the categories section here, so we’ll save this. And now we’ve just created a new post called “How to Get More Views on YouTube.”
Editing and Customizing Blog Posts
If we wanted to edit this, we could go ahead and click on the blog post, and that’s going to take us into this window where we can now start to build out our blog post by default. It’s going to show the title, the date, and the image, and you can customize these defaults as well. You can customize everything. You just have to find the buttons to do so. I’ll cover that in a second.
Building Out Blog Posts
Now, what you can do is you can scroll down and start to drag down elements. So maybe you want to first add the headline. So for my headline, I’ll type “How to Get More Views on YouTube,” and I’m going to make this an H1, and I’ll make it bold. What I’m going to do, I’m going to click on this text, and I’m going to bring the margin down so it’s closer to the image because I don’t really like the spacing.
Adjusting Text Alignment and Styling
So that’s a bit better. Now what I’m going to do is I’m going to go ahead and drag in a text box just below it, and now we can obviously start to write our blog posts below. We might want to put an image, so you might want to like separate your blog post with text and image. So you can then go ahead and add an image. Go to Media, add an image, and obviously, you can start to build out your blog post and add anything. For the sake of the video, I’ll just upload the same image. It is very, very easy stuff, guys. It’s just I’m really impressed with systeme.io.
Adding Images and Adjusting Layout
Boom! So there we’ve got the image, and let’s say we want to drag this image up. So let’s go ahead and mess around with this margin again. Look how easy this is to edit; anyone can do this. So now you’ve got like a nice-looking blog post, and this can be edited as well. We’ll save these changes and then we will exit out of this.
Publishing Blog Posts
Now you’ve written your blog post. Let’s say we want to publish it. So here we’re back on this page with our posts; you can see that the status is currently inactivated. So you want to go ahead and activate it. Click on the three dots next to the post and then click “Activate” and then “Confirm,” and that will make that blog post alive. If you go to “View Blog,” it will show you your blog.
Customizing Blog and Post Layouts
Customizing Blog Layout
So, here’s our home page, which we’ve edited. “How to Get More Views on YouTube,” here is our article. Now, two more things because these are going to be important: if you go to “Blog Layout,” you can edit what your blog post is going to look like. This is going to be the layout of your blog, and you can edit the image; you can edit stuff that you couldn’t edit before. If you don’t want this email opt-in, you can delete this, and it will be gone on all of your posts. Right. Delete this, click save and exit; that’s going to update on every single one of your pages.
Editing Post Layouts
You can also go to “Post Layout,” and here you can edit your post default. By default, it will have the title, the date, and the image, and you can obviously keep this consistent throughout all of your blog posts. So that’s a good feature. One more thing: how to change your categories. So by default, you’re going to have default categories which you can change. So, if you go to categories here, you’ve got the different names of each category. Go ahead and go to “Settings,” and I wouldn’t make new categories; I’d just change the ones already there. So name, I’m going to call this “YouTube Views,” and it’s going to automatically change the path, and we can then save this.
Conclusion
Now if we go to “Posts,” we can make sure that the post we just made goes to the right category. So go ahead and click on these three dots, go to “Settings,” and you can see it’s in the category of “YouTube Views.” Now, one last view of our blog, you can see it’s in the category called “YouTube Views.” Now obviously, you can delete all of these other blog posts and start to populate your blog with blog posts. So edit everything, you can do, upload your logo, make this personal to you and your brand, and start writing blog posts, and you’ll fill this out in no time. But that was a quick overview of how you can use systeme.io to create a blog.
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