How to Split Header in two in Blogger

This is a common request and useful if you are looking to add links, information or ad banners into that area to the side of your blog header.

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Add banner, Adsense or search box in header - i.e. split the header in two. Good advice. Read the other blogger comments at the bottom also for fixes.

How to remove Blogger attribution from your blog

The attribution on your Blogger blog is the bit of writing right at the bottom of the blog that tells everyone who the Template was designed by etc. Some people find it a nuisance and want to remove it.

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Removing the Attribution gadget from Designer Templates

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How to change your Blogger blog widths

This is a very common requested problem. In most cases it requires the blogger to change some HTML code.

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How to find the widths of you blog header, sidebar and main column

How to change Blogger blog widths

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How to get back a deleted blog.

There are ways to get back deleted Blogger blogs whether deleted on purpose or accidentally. It not easy and there are no guarantees but it is worth a try.

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How to get back a blog that has been accidentally deleted

Recover deleted blog

How to ping your Blogger blog

In general terms, pinging your blog lets the internet know you have updated your content. It is a useful tool in advertising your blog out to the blog reading public. A simple Google search of 'Ping Blog' will give you a whole list of services that you can use.

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Blogger - ping that blog post

Pingomatic - Easy to use, pings English services

Autopinger - Allow you to ping Non-English services as well as English

Add Advertising Ad web banners in blogger

Web banners or ad banners allow bloggers to accept advertising content in a predefined form for placing anywhere on their blog. You can add banners of pretty much any shape and size as per your or the clients preferences.

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Make money, add banner ads to blogger

125 by 125 Ad banner widget for blogger blogs

Standard web banner sizes

Add navigation menu link buttons and images in Blogger

Navigation bars are the menu bars near the top of web pages that show the user a list of page titles i.e Home, About Me, Contacts etc. The basic general design usually incorporates just the text title. For a bit more effort, however, you can program image buttons to replace the text and make your navigation bar a bit more unique.

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Navigation buttons

How to make image link navigation bars in blogger

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Backup your Blogger template

It is important to back up your blog every time you make changes to the HTML code as you customise the template. It is easy to make mistakes and completely mess up the code. Having a back up means you can experiment as much as you like without worrying about completely ruining all your hard work. It is all too easy to overlook this step, i urge you to do it ASAP.

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Make money with you Blogger account

There are many ways to monetise your blog. The traffic your blog generates will determine how successful you will be in generating Ad clicks or private Ad sales and sponsorship.

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How to make money blogging - This is an excellent guide

How to make money with new Amazon associates for Blogger

Make money with your blog and Google Adsense

Amazon associates for Blogger

Basically you advertise Amazon products on your blog and get a percentage of the earning if people then go on the buy something from them.

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Official Amazon associates site

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Add pages to Blogger blog

You can add pages to your blog to allow you to write further information such as About Me or Contacts etc.

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Create pages in Blogger

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Add picture background to Blogger sidebar

Add background images, photos or just plain colours to your sidebar.

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Adding background images

How to add image as sidebar background

Adjusting Blogger page margins, padding and border

By changing the padding, margins and borders you can improve upon the look of you blogger blog by eliminating empty unsightly spaces between columns, header, footers etc.

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What is padding margin and borders?

Adjusting the padding and margin of your blog template

Changing width of blog - sidebars, main column

Remove Blogger navbar at top of page

The Navbar in Blogger is the bar at the very top of the page that displays a search box and other Blogger generated buttons. The bar can be useful in navigating around the Blogger pages but some people prefer it not to be there.

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Hide blogger navbar

Change alignment of post titles in Blogger

Depending on you own preferences this may be a useful tool in your blogging experience. It allows you to align the blog title as you would like it above the text body.

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Align post title

Add scroll effect to sidebar gadets and widget in Blogger

Allows you to easily clean up long and unsightly lists of information in your side bar by creating a scroll effect.

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Adding scroll box to widgets

Adding scroll bar to sidebar widget

Adding Meta tags to Blogger

Meta tags are HTML or XHTML elements that provide information (metadata) about your blog that search engine spiders can then read to describe the content and descriptions of your blog. There are useful meta tag generators that can write the HTML code for your.

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Meta Tags

Meta Tag Generator

How to use HTML Meta tags

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Add background images in Blogger

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Adding background image

How to add a background picture in blogger

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How to hide widgets and gadets in Blogger

This is useful if you have multiple pages in your blog but do not want to display your gadgets or widgets on all of them.

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Hide widgets/gadets

Centre text, pictures, banners, adverts etc

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Centre text, pictures, advertisements, banners, search boxes

Using labels in Blogger

Labels are useful in helping your readers connect with specific information on your blog. For example on One Stop Blogspot I use them to act as an index so that readers who are looking for posts on Meta Tags, upon clicking on their specific label, will be bought to all the blogpost relating to Meta Tags.

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The basics of labels in blogger

Categories your posts

Cloud labels for Blogger blogs

Change order of pages and lists in sidebar

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Configuring link lists

Using search engine spiders

Search engine spiders, also known as robots or crawlers, are programs that 'crawl' the internet and in your case, your blog, gathering content to be added to search engine indexes. For example when you carry out a Google search the results you get are indexed by spiders that have crawled those sites and read their content. They then link your search query to the information found on their 'crawl'.

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Controlling search engine spiders

Blog and ping to attract search spiders

How to bait search engine spiders

Customise your static pages in Blogger

Generated pages in Blogger are static pages by design. You can, however, change the way the pages are displayed by editing the HTML of your blog.

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Multiple posts in static pages

Use different template layout for static pages

Customising page gadets

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Custom pages index

Add Link list to our blog

Header customisation in Blogger

You can customise your header using the inbuilt Template Designer in Blogger. However there are some changes that can only be implemented by other means, including HTML.

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How to remove header borders

Insert search box in Header

Hide header text and replace with image

Hide header description

Split your header in 2 column elements

Changing the design of your Blogger template

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The following video says it all. Blogger now has an all in one designer that will allow you to change colours, designs, fonts, dimensions and alot more. No need to play around will HTML anymore.

Add Clock to blog

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Add a clock to your blog A how to guide to adding clock HTML to blog

Clocklink.com Choose from many different clock designs, really to add to Blogger blog

Attract traffic to your blog

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30 Blog Improvement Tips to Increase Your Traffic Comprehensive list of things to do to help increase traffic to your blog

4 Steps to Increase Your Blog Traffic Shorter list but no less helpful

Ping your blog See my section on pinging blogs

Adsense for blogger

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What is Google Adsense Start here to inform yourself about adsense basics

Google Adsense sign up Sign up here for a google adsense account through google

How to Add AdSense to Blogger and Make Money from Your Blog - Blogspot Step by step guide to ad adsense through your blogger account

Remove low paying ads in Adsense

Insert Adsense ads in you Blogger posts

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One Stop Blogspot

I set up One Stop Blogspot as a place for new and experienced bloggers to come and find the best and most usefuls links and videos for all things blogger. From my own experience I know it can be difficult to find useful information without becoming very confused. You don't have to be a computer programmer to use blogger successfully. It just takes a fellow user to guide you in a concise but simple manner through their own written posts or videos.

On this blog you will find what I believe are the best of the blogger help sites, blogs and videos.

Good luck and enjoy blogger.