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Are you tired of the regular templates that come with Blogger? Well never fear because this article will show you how you can change the colors and layout of your chosen template into something that’s unique and attractive. You can add different headers, change the background, and even change the font style and the best thing is that it’s actually very simple. So let’s get started so you can learn how to edit your Blogger templates.

We will start with the easy stuff first and change the fonts and colors of your template. Head to your Blogger Dashboard and click the layout tab. From there you’ll see four links. Choose the font’s and colors link and you’ll be taken to a page that is split into two sections. The top section contains the items that you can edit and change and the bottom section gives you a preview of what that change will look like. Feel free to change and play around as much as you like because nothing with actually be changed until you press the Save Changes button, so if you choose a color or font that you don’t like you can always cancel those changes. Once you are happy with your template then save your changes and you are done.

Next let’s add a custom header to our page. Most Blogger template headers are defaulted to display just text but you can easily add an image behind the text or even to replace the text at the top. Go to the Layout Tab and click on the Page Elements link. You’ll see a page that shows the basic layout of your blog. Find your header at the top and click the Edit link to bring up the Configure Header display. From here you can upload your image and choose to have it behind your test or instead of your text. Most Blogger header sizes are 730 pixels wide so keep this in mind when making your header graphic.

Advanced editing can also be done to your template however you will need some html and css knowledge before you decide to try and rewrite any code. However there are some simple things that you can do that shouldn’t be too hard. The first is changing the background color of your page. Scroll down until you see the body stylesheet of the template. This is where you’ll find the basic information about your template such as background color, line-height and general font-size. If you know the hexadecimal color that you want for your background then just replace the hex number (the number that starts with a hash (#)) with your new hex number.

In the advanced editing section you can also add your Google Analytics code at the bottom of the template before the /body tag if you would like to track your visitors.

Auto Blog System X Review – My Results

Like many marketers today, I am always looking out for the next big thing. It’s 2010, and I can tell you that 2011 wont be any easier on us who make a living online. The market is saturated with massive competition, and even the biggest uber-marketers are feeling the pressure. Its not the market it once was. I’m talking about a few years back when anyone could throw up a good site or service, market it though list building and SEO, and make a good profit. But now your lucky to even get ranked at all, no matter how much money or optimization you throw into it.

So what do we do? Well, lucky for us there are still some successful marketers out there willing to show us a good profit method for a rainy day..

And guess what.. It’s raining.

This is where Rob Benwell comes in. Obviously a great success, Rob has proven time and time again that it doesn’t take an Einstein to make money with simple means. If a twenty something kid from the UK can make millions off a blog, then I know we can.

And so with Rob’s newest e-book, Auto Blog System X, I began my journey. For those who don’t know, auto blogging has become an everyday business. And let me tell you friends, business is booming. So when I saw Auto Blog System X, I knew there was something to behold, but what this something was I couldn’t be sure. So I got an early copy of this 60 page strategy guide, and I began a 20 day test. This way at launch time, I could effectively review the tactics and tell others what to expect. Believe it or not, I actually care about other marketers and whether they should spend time and money on new methods. Isn’t that crazy?

If you’ve read Blogging to the Bank, then you know Rob cuts through the fluff when it comes to teaching you his marketing tactics. If you haven’t read it, I suggest getting a copy to familiarize yourself with his methods. Much of what is contained in BTTB is also incorporated within Auto Blog System X, so read it if you haven’t yet.

 

My Results After Using Auto Blog System X For 20 Days

The concept is simple: Set up a line of auto-blogs that will each earn for you a small amount of money, but put together create one big profit stream.

What is so great about Auto Blog System X, is that you can incorporate Adsense, Affiliate products, and a variety of other methods to crank out high profits. Believe me when I say, that Rob has given us a literal step-by-step blueprint that he himself used when building up the multi-million dollar Blogging to the Bank. Its very rare that a super-marketer will share his complete strategy to success, so just having Auto Blog System X you know have something special and one of a kind.

I tested every single method within this system, and after 20 days I can confidently say that Auto Blog System X does in fact produce stunning profits. What really amazed me is that fact that I didn’t even put in 50% of the work that goes into this system, yet I still came out 20 days later with a hefty 5 figure check. I can only imagine how much money could be made when applying these techniques to full effect.

So the answer to the question on everyone’s mind, “Should I get Auto Blog System X?”.

Definitely YES.

It doesn’t take much experience to earn with Rob’s methods, which is the reason he has been so successful with his previous guide books. Simple is better. Wouldn’t you agree?

I can tell that this one is going to be a big hit in the Internet marketing community. Auto Blog System X has already topped the Clickbank charts as the highest selling product ever, and now I know why.

Knowing what I now know about this great ebook, I can tell you Rob is not going to let many more copies go. This is almost too easy when it comes to setting up a steady income stream, and if too many people get a hold of it, the whole auto blog market will be saturated.

My Final Thoughts About Rob Benwell’s Auto Blog System X

It has been a pleasure to use this untapped marketing tool. The only advice I can give those reading this, is to click the little link below, get your own copy, and master the method before it’s gone. I will continue to use Rob’s brilliant methods and so will those with whom I work with. For once I can honestly say,

“Man I wish I thought of that first..”

Get to the Auto Blog System X Website before its too late!





 

According to Google, Google’s Blog Search is “Google search technology focused on blogs”. It includes search engine results specific to blogs not just in the Blogger.com community, but across the blogosphere at large.

What the Big Deal Is

A lot of people have probably heard about this extra version of search Google has added and are greeting it with a big yawn, particularly since it’s still in Beta. So what is the big deal, anyway?

The big deal is that the top search engine in the world, which was already paying particular attention to blogs in regular search results, seems to make a subtle statement with the introduction of blog-specific searches.

Blogs are important enough to warrant their own special level of search, and not just as an advanced search option, but in their own search engine.

If search engines are paying attention to blogging that closely, you should be too — if you want better search engine results.

Current fans of blogs will be able to search the freshest results so that they can see what is being discussed right now – information that is often as fresh as the news, and draws upon sources that the media-at-large either doesn’t have ready access to, or interest in.

So to those with even the most obscure interests or hobbies, a blog search powered by a top search engine gives ready access to fresh information on any subject that someone can blog about.

And if a blog doesn’t yet exist on these narrow themes? You can be the one to start the discussion.

Why It Matters to Your Business

Speaking of the media, this is likely to become one of the many tools that a journalist in the know would use in order to research a story, or to find out more information about a company, directly from the people who use its products or services.

Technorati, is at present, arguably a better tool, but it’s just not as well known as the Google brand. If you’re a power searcher, you already know what Technorati is. But the key thing to understand is that most consumers – even B2B consumers – aren’t as deeply involved in the internet.

But even those folks know what Google is.

There’s an even more obvious advantage to this specialized search.

Google Blog search has the unprecedented potential to bring the mainstream surfer into blogging, even more than Yahoo’s RSS Headlines pioneered the start of making RSS mainstream about a year ago. Why?

While many of your clients will fall instantly in love with RSS, it’s more fair to them to present its possibilities in a format that’s easier for them to digest. It’s not as hard to explain a blog – and if you can’t you can simply tell them it’s a more frequently updated part of your existing site.

When Google’s Blog Search is brought more to the front in coming months, if your site gets into position to be visible when more of the internet population becomes blog-happy, then the traffic potential for your site may prove to be enormous.

The proper use of one RSS feed in one of my content management systems doubled my traffic, with most of the new users coming from Yahoo, this time last year. Another feed increased my daily traffic another 75%, and brought me additional return traffic as well.

At the time the margin between Yahoo and Google was wider than it is today — so the potential increase from being in Google boggles the mind.

How to Get Listed

According to the Blog Search Help Page:

“If your blog publishes a site feed in any format and automatically pings an updating service (such as Weblogs.com), we should be able to find and list it. Also, we will soon be providing a form that you can use to manually add your blog to our index, in case we haven’t picked it up automatically. Stay tuned for more information on this.”

This means that if you’re already blogging – and responsibly pinging, you’re probably already listed.

If you haven’t been blogging, you’re in luck. This special brand of Google search is still in Beta, so if you get moving now, you still have enough time to start getting into position. And since the search currently seems to be focused on freshness and relevance, if you keep up the blogging once you start, and you keep your theme narrow, you could still dominate your niche.

Do It Today

The mantra for blogging before was that, proper blogging is a sure fire way to increase traffic, as well as build stronger ties to your end users or clients, not to mention that it is the simplest of the many implementations of RSS.

Now, with all three major search engines paying more attention to both RSS and Blogging, you can get spidered more frequently, get more of your pages indexed more deeply, and be included in more searches.

You have absolutely no time to waste – if you’re not blogging already, you need to get started quickly. Many webmasters are hesitating because they haven’t been able to find a blog system that fits well with their site, or find the most popular tools too sophisticated for their needs.

There are literally dozens of free resources to help you decide between the standard systems that were originally built for the personal blogger, and the more robust solutions that are aimed at the medium-sized or corporate company – but that’s another article.

Whatever you chose, the important thing is to get started blogging today. You’ll be missing out on targeted traffic from the most dominant search engine, from the most sophisticated surfers today, and sooner than you know it, the mainstream web.