Customize blogger navigation bar of your blog to look better for readers. Do you know what a good blog needs is to be easy navigate by readers to finds their favorite topics quickly? Yes, it’s the point your blog need to have on header. Think as a blog reader, if you can’t search through the posts quickly and easily to find what interests you, probably you won’t be looking no more and won’t back again to blog. Don’t you? That’s all because of a bad navigation bar. So let’s simply customize blogger navigation bar with these simple guide.

Customize Blogger Navigation Bar of  Your Blog

There are many different ways to create and customize blogger navigation bar. But we are going to explain through the default templates of blogger. The default templates of blogger is SEO friendly and the page speed is very fast than other templates or Theme.

1. Create Blogger Navigation Bar

By default the blogger template currently doesn’t have navigation bar. You can add your blog tags as navigation bar or create a pages.

1. From blogger settings navigate to Settings, Layout under Favicon gadget click Edit on Navbar gadget and turn of the default Navbar.

2. Now Add a Gadget and from Gadgets select Labels and add it. Then drag and drop it to header on one of the Cross-Columns.

3. The result should be like below header navigation bar screenshot.

Note: When you add Labels as Navigation bar, you may have too much labels. Your blog navigation bar will look disorganized. You can customized through Configure Labels section. When you want to add it just select Selected Labels and select the labels you want to be displayed for readers. 

You can place the navigation bar of your blog on sidebar also. In order to do this just drag and drop the Labels gadget on Sidebar.

Another good practice is to select the most used labels as navigation bar on blog header and select others  Labels as Cloud tags on the blog Sidebar.

Yes, this is work perfect for a normal blogger weblog. Just see the result on (www.aimgz.com) our blogger weblog.

2. Select Pages for Navigation Bar

The second easy method is to create pages and select them on navigation bar tab. It also the best simple practice to do it. You must create all your blog pages first and then add the Pages gadget on header or sidebar.

Creating page is easy on blogger. Try to create the pages you need to display on navigation bar. The pages for navigation bar is better for blog search engine optimization.

3. Code Blogger Navigation Bar

It’s good for coders and developers. For a simple blog and bloggers I don’t recommend to customize the default template codes, unless you must be familiar with HTML and CSS.

If you really need to customize your blog navigation bar through code? Try to get help from a trusted source. Sometime it ruin or disorganize your blog template to add extra codes.

Hope you find this simple blogger article helpful and we ask you to share you blogger tips with us and share our post also.

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Blogger is a popular and powerful free Blogging system under support’s of Google and available up to 60 languages with millions daily users. The address of blogger weblog come with blogspot.com suffix name. For instance “www.lensoftown.blogspot.com“. It’s not a pleasing and pretty name for a blogger and users. So you must setup a custom domain for your blogger blog. To setup blogger custom domain for an old or a new weblog, you need to register your own domain name and change it to your own name.

Find and Register a Domain

Firs of all try to find a short and meaningful domain name for your blog. Then register that name with some domain registration company. I have registered with a local domain registration agency. The bellow list are domain registration companies you can find and register your own ideal domain. There are many companies you can buy domain names from, I just brings here two of them which is good.

• Hostgator.com
• GoDaddy.com

Add Blogger Custom Domain

I assume you have registered your own blogger custom domain name, and ready to add to your blogger weblog as blogger custom domain.

1. First open blogger.com and login to your weblog with your Gmail account.
2. Navigate your weblogs and select the weblog your want to set a custom domain, then go to Settings of your weblog.

3. Now click Set up a third-party URL for your blog link under Blog Address. Then add your own registered domain name as blogger custom domain.

4. Check everything is going right and click Save to apply the changes. Don’t worry if you see the error “We have not been able to verify your authority to this domain. Error 14“. This is because google can not verify the ownership of your domain.

5. Go to change the DNS record of your domain name with Google DNS records from domain registration website.

6. When the step 5 has complete successfully, navigate to your blogger and try to add your custom domain again like step 3. Everything must work perfectly. If it issue  the error “We have not been able to verify your authority to this domain. Error 12” try to make sure the records are added correctly.  Don’t write the google dns records, instead copy and past it.

Note: You see the settings instruction line on above screenshot, click on settings instructions. The How do I use a custom domain name for my blog? will open, then you should select your domain option, whether it’s a domain or sub domain. For a domain like mine (www.aimgz.com), select firs one On a top-level domain. Now it will show you the instructions.

7. Now the blogger custom domain has been set successfully. Just try to open your blogger weblog with new blogger costume domain.

Finally, if you have any problem, comment us your errors title you have with blogger.

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