History of Blogger (blogspot.com) CMS Platform
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If you are in the blogging field then you must have heard about blogger cms platform.
In this post we are going to talk about the history of blogger so let's get started,
First of all we will know what a blogger is. Blogger is one of the cms platforms also known as blogspot.com and it is one of the most successful platforms for free blogs for the last several years.
Here you can start a professional blog for free and even earn money from it. It's a perfect platform for organizations to create their own website, where they can easily promote their products and services.
Now let's check out the history of bloggers. Back in 1999 a tech company named pyra Labs was founded and one of its founders Evan Williams wanted to create a free platform. Where everyone can make a website and write about their interests. This is how bloggers were born in 2003.
Four years after launch google purchased pyra labs and its main project blogger the details about the deal were not disclosed but even william said in an interview that he was very happy to join google team.
At that time his company had only six employees and that was its turning point when google purchased blogger it started growing faster and to make blogger popular google even offered all the paid services for free and also added some new features in 2004.
Google purchased a popular photo sharing website known as Picasa and integrated picasa into bloggers.
Picasa helped the user to add pictures to their blog. On 9th may 2004 blogger introduced a major redesign in which they added many new features such as professional web template email posting and many more.
On 14 august 2006 blogger launched its latest version in beta named as invader this migrated the users to google server and included some new features and in 2006 december this new version of blogger was taken out of beta by may 2007 blogger had completely moved over to google server and it was ranked on 16 on the list of top 50 domains in terms of unique visitor in 2007.
Later ads Monetization become fully integrated with blogger and it became possible for the users to earn advertising revenue from their blog and amazon affiliate was also integrated by google that offered another monetizing solution to blog owners.
About Blogger Mobile Application
Now let's know about blogger's mobile application blogger launched a mobile application for users mobile devices.
Where users can post and edit their blogs and also share photos and links on the blogger through their mobile devices.
The two major mobile operating systems that bloggers focus on are android and ios. Blogger also provides dynamic mobile views for blogging compatibility and also improves the readability accuracy on smart devices.
But editing a blog on a blogger app still remains an open issue for the users. Bloggers have also been blocked by many countries such as turkey pakistan vietnam.
So this was all the history of bloggers, now let's see how bloggers are performing in the present time. At present bloggers are leaders in micro blogging industries and millions of blogs are created but this is only a rough figure.
There is no official data about how many blogs have been created till now and blogger is still the most popular site in the world.
Okay so that's all for today's post. If you like this post and you want us to keep posting such useful content related to blogging and youtube then please do not forget to leave a comment.
