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How To Create Free Blog On Blogger (Blogspot)?

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Nowadays many people are passionate for blogging. The reason is not just to earn money but the fact is that they want to express their ideas with others and simply they get joy in doing so. Most of the people think that creating a blog needs to learn coding languages like HTML, CSS, XML etc. but this is not true at all. Firstly let me tell you that Blogger is the most popular blogging platform and using it is so easy and Blogspot Beginner Team will publish each and every article which let a newbie/beginner to build his/her own blog without any knowledge of coding languages. If you face any difficulty, you can simply drop a comment or send your duduk perkara via Contact Page.  So, lets start the tutorial on how you can easily create your blogger/blogspot blog for free. Check: Honor 7x Price and Specifications in India Creating a Blogger (Blogspot) Blog: Go to Blogger.com: Now, Click on Create your Blog Button. You will be prompt to sign in. Simply do that with your go

How To Change Blogger (Blogspot) Template?

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When I started Blogging, I do not have much knowledge about the blog design and layout. At that time, I use default blogger templates on my blog which is not that much attractive. When I learn how to do modifications in default blogger templates and also how you can apply a third party blogspot/blogger template or theme to your blog. This is a quite simple task and require just few mouse clicks. No matter whether you want to change a bakery website design template  or any other kind of templates, it’s easy to do so. So let's start how you can change your blogger theme/template easily. Changing Blogger (Blogspot) Template : To get any third party template, simply search on google @Blogger Templates and you will find various free sites for it. Download any template of your choice.  Now to change your template follow the given steps : First of all, Log in to your Blogger account. Click on the drop down sajian and choose   Template . Press   Backup/Restore   button

How To Remove Powered By Blogger - Attribution Widget?

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As we all are aware of Blogger's default Attribution widget. This shown up by each and every newly created blogger (blogspot) blog. Most of the bloggers remove it from their blogs to give the blog more professional and classic look. So today we will learn two different easy ways through which we can easily remove blogger's default "Powered by Blogger" attribution widget. Most of the people think that Google might ban their blog if they will remove that credit attribution link but it is not true at all. You can remove that credit link without any hesitation if it does not suits your blog. So lets start the tutorial and also Checkout these: BigRock Coupon   to save your money on BigRock Domain and Hosting Purchase. Steps to Remove "Powered by Blogger" Attribution Link : Method 1 : First of all, go to blogger template option, and click on the Edit HTML option. ( as seen in the below screenshot) Now Click to Jump to Widget and select Attr

How To Change Blogger (Blogspot) Favicon?

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Favicon refers to the blog image which appears on the browser tab beside the Post/Blog title. By default, blogger use to show default blogger logo (in orange colour) as a favicon for all blogspot blogs. To give blog a more professional look probloggers use a custom image instead of that blogspot default logo. We can change it as per our need. Basically it could be our logo or anything we may like. Always keep in mind that the favicon should be a square image and must not exceed 100kb (try to use least size possible). So here we will learn how we can add/change favicon of our blogger blogspot blog. You need to create your favicon (square image) of your choice. Moreover, you can use  favicon.cc  to create your favicon. How To Remove Powered By Blogger - Attribution Widget? Add Favicon to Blogger (Blogspot) : Login to your Blogger Dashboard and move to Layout Tab. You will see Favicon Tab there, click on Edit. After that, you have to choose file of your favicon image.

How To Add Custom Robots.Txt File In Blogger (Blogspot)?

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For better performance of our blog we need to optimize it for Blogger (Blogspot) we have the option to customize the robots.txt file according to our needs. But before adding it to your blog firstly as a beginner we need to know about what is robots.txt file. So lets start the tutorial. What is Robots.txt? Robots.txt is a file which tells the search engine crawlers what page to crawl and what not to. Simply, you can exempt your blog demo pages, label pages, archive pages and other which you don't consider as important. Search engine crawlers always scan the robots.txt file before crawling any blog. So lets start adding this great SEO improver to your blog. Also Check :  How to Change Blogger (Blogspot) Favicon? Adding Robots.txt to Blogger (Blogspot) Blogs: To add Custom Robots.txt file to your blog, follow the basic steps mentioned below: Go to your blogger blog. Navigate to Settings >> Search Preferences ››  Crawlers and indexing ›› Custom robots.t

Custom Robots Header Tags Settings For Blogger (Blogspot)

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Every blogger wants huge organic traffic on his/her blog. For that we need to optimize our blog for search engine to increase the visibility of our blog. We can customize our blog pages for better custom robots.txt for blogger (blogspot) but thats not all. We need to take care of every SEO setting so that we can play well in search engines. Custom Robots Header Tags not only specifies crawling way for search engines but also for open directories, indexing no images, not translating our pages, disabling search engines to save cached copy of our pages and so on.  So lets start the tutorial. What is Robots Header Tags? : Firstly, we must know about what is robots header tags before adding them to our blog. So we will specify each option briefly here : 1. all : This tag allows crawlers to crawl your blog freely without any boundations.They can easily index, crawl and expose your contents. 2. noindex : This is for secret blogs like if your blog is for private use the

How To Hide/Remove Blogger Navbar?

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Blogger platform has many cool features thats why most blogger like and prefer it. Also, a new blogger blog contains many widgets which some people like but some dislike. They are Attribution widget , favicon and so on . One such widget is Blogspot Navbar (Navigation Bar) as some bloggers like this widget as it allows visitors to Follow, Share and Search your blog while some bloggers dislike it as this is not professional looking so they want to remove it. So today here we will learn the best 3 ways to completely hide/remove blogger navbar widget easily. How to Remove Blogger (Blogspot) Navbar? Method : 1 Go to the Layout section of your Blogger blog. Click on "Edit" link of Navbar widget and you should be in the Navbar Configuration window.​ Blogger navbar configuration window.  Choose "Off" and click on "Save" button. Method 2 : Go to Blogger Template > Edit HTML. Search for </b:skin> and just above it paste the fo

How To Submit Blogger Sitemap To Google Webmaster Tools?

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Indexing all your posts in Google is the best way to attract huge organic visits to your blog. It is a difficult job for us to submit each and every post to Google one by one especially when we have already many posts published on our blog. Getting this thing easier, we can submit sitemap of our all blog posts to Google in one go and they all will get submitted to Google. Great na? Isn't it? Yes, it is. So In this article we are going to learn how we can easily submit sitemap of our blogger (blogspot) posts to Google Webmaster tools. So lets start the tutorial.Before submitting sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools, we must know about sitemap first. What is Sitemap? A sitemap is an XML file which contains the list of all pages in our blogs. Sitemap improves blog’s crawling rate and it also helps search engines to index our blog pages when submitted. Simply, sitemap tells search engines about the contents on your blog. Must Read :  How to Add Custom Robots.txt File in Blogger (

How To Submit Blogger Sitemap To Yahoo And Bing?

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As we already discussed in our previous post about submitting blogger (blogspot) sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools . In this article, we will learn how to submit Blogger sitemap to Bing and Yahoo. First of all let me tell you that Yahoo site explorer had merged with Bing Webmaster tools so submitting your blog to Bing will automatically index your blog in Bing and Yahoo both. Isn't it cool? This will surely help you to get organic traffic to your blog. So let's start the tutorial. If you do not know much about what is sitemap, you can simply refer to our previous post :  How To Submit Blogger Sitemap To Google Webmaster Tools? Submitting Blogger Sitemap to Yahoo and Bing : To add your sitemap, simply follow the steps below. Log into your Bing Webmaster Tools  or you can do hotmail login from microsoft .  Go to "Add a Site". Enter your blog URL for which you need to submit sitemap. Then add the following lines in "Add a sitemap" field. http

How To Add/Install Google Analytics To Blogger?

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Tracking statistics of blog is one of the secret of successful blogs which is probably taken for granted. Every blogger wants to know about the audience visiting his/her blog i.e. about the time they spend on our blog, about their locations, their landing pages and so on. Blogger Stats Tab provides good information but not to the fullest. Google Analytics is the best and free option to know our audience in just a few clicks. It let us know almost each and everything a blogger wants to know about his/her audience. So today we will learn how we can add Google Analytics to our blogger blog. Signing Up for Google Analytics : First off all, visit the Google Analytics sign up page and log in to your Google account. After signing-in to your Google Account you will be seen a page like the below image, simply click on Sign Up. Now in this step you have to enter your personal details like Website name, Website URL, Time zone and so on.  Fill the details and when done, hit the

How To Create Full Width Page And Hide Sidebar In Blogger

blogspot user we thought that hiding a blogger blog and create a full width page with no sidebar. Check Out Demo Of Full Width Page Removing Sidebar and Increase Width of  Pages: Just follow the below simple steps to hide sidebar in your certain blogger page or post : 1. Go to Blogger.com >> Add New Page/Post 2. Now select Edit HTML tab of Blogger Template. 3. Paste the following CSS : <style> #sidebar-wrapper, #midsidebar-wrapper, .gapad2, .blog-pager, .post-header-line-1, .post-footer { display:none !important;} #main-wrapper { width:99%!important;} .post { width:99%!important; } </style> 4. Replace width:99% according to your needs, you can even uses pixels instead of percentage i.e. 960px. Additional Coding : If you also want to hide Titles from a certain page, then just paste the following code before </style> in above coding. ( it will not effect crawling as bots can easily see these things) .post-title, .post-la

How To Set Custom Page Not Found 404 Error Page In Blogger?

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If you somehow noticed about the Custom Page Not Found Settings in your blogger blog under Errors and Re-directions in Search Preference of your Blogger blog then you must questioned yourself about what is it and I am sure you are curious to know about this option that time and for now too. Let me tell you about that now. Sometimes if you visited any page of your blog which do not exist (through a broken or expired link) then you will be seen a message from blogger that this page does not exists. It looks creepy. Isn't it. You can check that out by placing any keyword after your blog address (like: yourblogaddress.blogspot.com/404). Today, this article is about customizing that default Custom Page not Found error and renovate it with professional looks. So lets start the tutorial. The message you see by default is like the picture below : Creating Your Custom 404 Not Found Page in Blogger: Go to Blogger.com > Settings > Search Preferences: Click Edit link next

How To Set Custom Redirects In Blogger?

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We always want a better and professional layout for our blog. For that we will try each and every tactic like custom page not found , creating full width page , hide navbar and so on. that can leads to a pro look of our blog. We must know that by default blogger creates permalink of our blog pages like (blogaddress.blogspot.com/p/page-title.html) but what if we can shorten it and give it more classy look. Yes, we can! Blogger provides a great default method to do so. Using Custom Redirects we can redirects our full length permalinks to a shorter one. May they be our old posts which we redirects to new post or our blog pages links. We can simply get a better and shorter url as (blogaddress.blogspot.com/anything). Isn't it classy? Hehe! So lets start rolling your fingers to know how to apply this trendy thing to your blog. You can check our contact page url for demo :  http://www.bbeginner.com/contact Setting Custom Redirects in Blogger :  In our previous post, we have d

How To Prevent Search Engines From Indexing A Blogger Blog?

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Whenever we are designing our new blogger blog , we do not want any user or any search engine to crawl/index our blog. We all know that first impression is the last impression. So before getting ready and before fully designing our blog we must prevent it from search engines and from visitors too. For doing so, Blogger provides a great option by default and whenever we are ready designing our blog we can simply revert these changes and make our blog public and let search engines index it. This will also help whenever we are testing a new version of our blog. Likewise, we are changing footer, font styles, font sizes and so on. So In this tutorial you will learn how you can make your blogger blog private and prevent search engines from crawling it. Steps to Stop Search Engines from indexing your Blog : Just follow the simple steps as directed below.  Open Blogger > Settings > Basic > Privacy  You will get two different options, Add your Blogs to Listing and second

How To Remove Subscribe To : Posts (Atom) Links?

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In default blogger templates we see Subscribe to : Posts (Atom) links below each post. Using this link our blog visitors can subscribe to our atom feeds. This is a great way to turn your visitors into readers but some bloggers find it creepy and this link does not suits their blog. Most of the bloggers want to remove these links from their blog to make their blog more classic and professional. By playing with blog template's HTML we can easily remove these links from all our blog posts in one go. Removing these links will not let your visitors to subscribe to your blog feeds but don't worry at all. Here at BBeginner.com, soon we are going to publish huge collection of blogger template. Steps to Remove Subscribe to : Posts (Atom) Link from Blogger : Log into your Blogger account , move on to "Template" option and click the "Edit HTML" button. Click anywhere inside the code area, then press the CTRL + F keys to open Blogger' search box.