Protecting Your Blogger Blog
You know some people will report your blog as spam even when it’s not – and good luck trying to get it hand reviewed. Some say that works, others say they never got a reply. Is it okay to remove the nav bar? YES! Google says it is here: http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en-uk&answer=42269 and on this page, they say, “The Navbar appears on all freely-hosted Blog*Spot blogs, but can be disabled for users publishing via FTP.”
Here’s how you can disable the nav bar at the top that lets people report your blog as spam:
Log into Blogger and click on Layout.
Click Edit HTML.
Paste this exact code:
#navbar-iframe {
display: none !important;
}
right ABOVE this bit: /* Variable definitions – under the code that looks like this:
Date: 27 Feb 2004
Updated by: Blogger Team
———————————————– */
Then save it. Nav bar gone. Report button gone. Blogger blog safER.
tiff



Even if the nav bar is gone it dosn’t matter.
It is not somebody flagging your site that is the problem, it is the “Google Spambot” visiting your site and deeming it “spam” if you have too many links going to the same place no matter if the content is unique or not.
That is the email I got on a blogger site that never had a nav bar to begin with (one of those free custom blogger templates).
Nifty!
Implemented!
Good find!
Blogger is GOOGLE folks…look how Google treats marketers…how many slaps for things that were ok yesterday?
Tiffany you were right on target when you lamented it would be better to build wordpress blogs with your own domain name. But that does take it out of the $5.00 range.
Again, Tiffany..Thank You!
Thank you for that code. I just put it on one of my blogger sites and it looks much better!
Scott – That’s true. Why does Google treat us that way?
Thanks Tiff! That worked awesome. I tried to do this previously…. didn’t work. Your instructions were drop dead simple!