6 Steps for a professional looking blog

Blogger is one of the most used blogging platform which makes the blogger world's best blogging platform for newbies. Blogger is not only used by newbies but many professionals also find this platform reliable and comfortable.
There are many other cool reasons to use blogger. No doubt Wordpress has its own benefits but you can beat Wordpress by applying Blogger Hacks and Blogger tricks in your blogspot blog. Here are 6 blogger Tips that you must use in your blogspot blogs to give your blog a professional and mature look.

1- Remove Navigation Bar (navbar)

Blogger, by default, shows a navigation bar on the top of each created blog. It does not hurt any one however you can remove that nav bar to remove Blogspot's branding from your blog pages. There are countless blogs who have removed Navigation bar from their blogspot blogs. So, first of all, remove nav bar from your blog. It takes only 1 minute hardly.

2- Use a Custom Domain Name

If you can afford $10/year then using a custom domain for your blog would be a great deal. It will remove .blogspot.com branding from your Blog URL and you can assign any desired (with respect to availability) domain name easily. Here is how you can assign a custom domain to blogspot. 

3- Social Bookmarking Widget

Social Bookmarking sites are one of the greatest way to attract traffic to your blog. You can either submit your blog posts manually in social bookmarking sites or can let the world do this JOB. If you want others to share your contents on social bookmarking and social networking sites, then you must use Social Bookmarking Widget on your blogs. 

4- Auto Read More With Thumbnails

Earlier, blogger did not support excerpts i.e. Auto Read More or Auto Summary functions however several developers developed scripts to create auto read more functions for blogger. Blogger find those hacks interesting and officially added the function of "Read more" in each blog however you will have to add a code in your each post to show the summarized form of your post on your blog's mainpage and rest on the post page However if you use earlier hacks for read more with thumbnails, you dont need to place any code as the script will do everything for you. Its a Good idea to display only a certain part of your post on mainpage and remaining post on the post page. It will make your blog load quickly. Add Auto Read more Function in your blog. 

5- Google AdSense Ads inside Your Blogger Posts

If you are one of those bloggers who want to make money from their blogs then placing Google AdSense ads inside your blog posts will definitely be a good idea. You will get decent amount of legit clicks if you place Google Ads on right location and placing Google Ads above or below your post is considered a Right Location by several successful bloggers. You must Place Google Ads inside your posts. 

6- Reply Button within Comments

You possibly have seen that WordPress comment system or Disqus comments system have a reply-to-reply comment system which means readers can make reply to existing reply. Developers and smart bloggers have made it possible to to place a Reply Button in Your Blogspot comment system. You must use this useful function to make your blog look more professional.