Google Blogger is a popular web publishing tool used by millions of people around the world. We were using a Blogger custom domain before moving all blog posts and files of this domain to a WordPress installation. Blogger team is consecutively improving the features of the blogspot platform. Earlier they had released a new template designer, Google Analytics tools, Amazon integration, mobile version option, etc. The latest development from Blogger is the introduction of a standalone mobile application for Android devices.

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Blogger users have the facility to add a custom domain to their existing .blogspot blogs . Here they will be able to remove .blogspot extension from their blog and change it with .COM ,.NET or whatever TLD they want . Domain names are available from 2.8 $ onwards and if you want to be a professional Blogger , I advice you to a turn your blog into a custom domain .We have already shared a method to start Blogger custom domain for people having domain registrations without DNS hosting, using EditDNS.net .Transferring blogspot to Blogger custom domain is very task with domain registrars like Namecheap and Godaddy who are having DNS hosting  facility .

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I think you have seen the mobile versions of popular web portals and blogs .Similarly  you can also create create a mobile version of Blogger or WordPress blog . There are different methods and each depend on the blog platform .

Mobile version of a WordPress blog .
First of all you have to create a subdomain for your blog , say m.yourdomain.com. Your WordPress blog should be re-directed to this sub domain when accessed on a mobile phone . For this , you have to identify mobile browser UA string snippets, which can be done using PHP scripts .. There are plugins in WordPress for automatic re-direction to mobile versions .
These services Deviceatlas.com and WURFL can be used for mobile device detection .

Check out  Andy moores PHP script to detect mobile phones . Here  you can generate custom PHP script to  choose the mobile browsers and the domain to which it should be re-directed .Download the PHP the code and paste it at the very top of your header.php file ( This can be found in your theme directory ) . Apart from this , Andy Moore also has a WordPress plugin for mobile versions of WordPress blogs.
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The best service that can create a mobile version of WordPress blog is Mofuse . Mofuse is completely free and they have an easy to use mobile site builder for custom design of your site . On default , you will get a .mofuse.mobi domain after successful registration . This can later re-directed to your custom domain using the Mofuse dashboard  settings .
For eg: techknowl.mofuse.mobi can be re-directed to  m.techknowl.com.
A CNAME record (m.techknowl.com) should be made on your DNS control panel  and it should be pointed to techknowl.mofuse.mobi . So a visitor at m.techknowl.com(Desktop) will be redirected to techknowl.mofuse.mobi .
For mobile phone redirection , you can use Mofuse WordPress plugin . Just enter your mofuse mobile site name and your sub domain will be redirected to it .

Another features :
Mobile site Analytics
Custom design/colors/logo
SMS and Comment widget
Earn  Revenue from  mobile site using Google adsense and Admob .

Mobile version of Blogger blog:
Though we can create a mobile version of the Blogger blog , re-direction to mobile site is not possible  as the execution of server side scripts like PHP are not allowed . So here also we can make of Mofuse for the mobilization of Blogger . Blogger custom domain users can create a sub domain and change the CNAME record to point Mofuse. These sites should be promoted independently as they are not available on direct mobile access .

Starting a blog in blogspot is pretty easy and free of cost. So the first time bloggers usually choose Blogger as the platform of their choice and and then shift to WordPress. As we all know that all blogs in Blogger and sub domains and some may not like long URLs.  After creating a buzz you might start thinking about the importance of creating your own brand. At this point you may purchase a domain and point your Blogger blogspot blog to that domain without loosing content or traffic.

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