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Home Home About About Group Therapy Group Therapy Guest Posts Guest Posts Newsletter Newsletter 5 Ways to Make Your Blogger Blog Look Better I recently moved to WordPress from Blogger, but that doesn’t mean I’ve lost all the love I have for the popular blogging platform. I look at Blogger and WordPress as the difference between a microwave and the oven. You can get by just fine microwaving food but if you ever want to make Thanksgiving dinner, you’ll have to learn to use the oven at some point. Blogger is a blogging platform for people who don’t want to focus a ton of time on the technical side of their blog. (I happily fell into this group a year ago.) You want to create your blog, post your posts and move on. But even if you’re not a technical wiz or willing to put money into your blog just yet, there are ways to make your Blogger blog look more attractive to readers: Get rid of the Blogger navbar.That’s the thing the sits across the top of your blog that lets people search other blogger blogs. That’s great. . . for Blogger. Not you. It’s distracting from the main star here: your writing. You can either turn it off in the settings or insert a short html code into your template to remove it. Here’sa good place to start. And 86 the Blogger favicon while you’re at it.The favicon is the little icon that appears in the browser tab when you open your blog. If someone saves your blog as a favorite, it appears as the symbol for it. Again, I have nothing against the Blogger B. But when I see it, I think of the Blogger brand instead of your awesome blog. To change favicon, go to this siteto upload your image and grab the HTML code. Insert that code in our blog template header section. Check out thisif you have questions. Unless your blog is about Blogger, BlogSpot should not appear in your blog’s domain.Blogger allows you use a personalize domain name for no charge on their site. (And they’ll redirect all traffic from your BlogSpot domain to new domain automatically.) A domain will cost you less than $10 buck a year and if you already have a website, you can change your blog’s URL to blog.mysite.com for no additional cost. Don’t let your blog look just like every other one that Blogger publishes.My favorite thing about moving to WordPress was the template option. There are so many of them and eventually I plan on paying somebody to create a completely personalized one for me. Blogger has a few template options too, but there are far less of them. However, Blogger now has a template designeroption that lets you play around with a template’s coding without knowing any coding. You can make your blog unique without doing much more than changing the settings. Get serious about your comments.Blogger’s default commenting system is really basic and tries to force the reader into signing into their Google account to comment. The more you limit the ways people can comment on your blog, the less likely they will. You can allow commenting with the name and URL or anonymous commenting through the Blogger settings page. If you’re up for a few extra steps, try installing Disqusor Intense Debatecommenting systems. It’s free and pretty easy if you follow their step by step instructions. So what did I forget? What other easy fixes can you make to the Blogger platform to make your blog look better? You might like: Why Specializing Works and How to Start in Your Business | Diary of A Mad Freelancer Deja Vu | Diary of A Mad Freelancer Must You Blog to Be a Successful Freelancer? A Minority View | Diary of A Mad Freelancer Freelancers Can Now Accept Payments Over the Phone | Diary of A Mad Freelancer Recommended by Princess Jones Princess Jones is the evil genius behind Diary of a Mad Freelancerand P.S. Jones Communications. She blogs about freelance life, copywriting and being self-employed. She can usually be found tweeting away or rambling over on Google Plus. More Posts- Website Follow Me: Recent Posts I Quit Need to Netwo rk? Tips for Gettin g to the Right Person Why Specia lizing Works and How to Start in Your Busine ss Must You Blog to Be a Succes sful Freela ncer? A Minori ty View Time to Play Ball: I’ve Made It To The Big Leagu es Recent Comments Tanya Adamson I Quit Cathy Milleron I Quit Canda ce Nichol sonon I Quit Claire Wagn eron I Quit Marian aon Do You Want Me To Come Over There and Chew Your Food, Too? Resources ABC Copyw riting About Freela nce Writin g All Freela nce Writin g Dr. Freela nce Freela nce Writin g Gigs Freela ncedo m Inkwe ll Editori al The CopyW riter's Soapb ox The Reneg ade Writer The Writin g Base Home Home About About Group Therapy Group Therapy Guest Posts Guest Posts Newsletter Newsletter Designed by Elegant Themes| Powered by WordPress