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Facebook Like Button For Blogger

This Tutorial will help you in adding a Facebook Like Button For Blogger. Facebook has come up with a new set of Social plugins which enable you to provide engaging social experiences to your users with just a line of HTML. The Facebook Like Button is One of them. You can see a demo of the like button on this page. The Facebook like button will allow your readers to quickly share your posts with their Facebook Friends. You can also get to know how many people liked your Blog Post .This tutorial will teach you to add a Facebook Like button for Blogger

Remove Blogger Nav bar Completely

Blogger has got a default Navigation Bar. This navigation bar is hidden in most of the third party templates. Instead of hiding the nav bar using CSS, we can completely remove it.

To do that

1. Login to your Blogger account and navigate to Layout > Edit HTML

2. In the Template Code find <body> and just above that add the following Code.

How to remove quick edit and wrench icons on Blogger

You might have seen the Pencil , Screwdriver and Spanner links on blogger. It seems like these icons appear only when you are logged in to your blog. But if you take a look at your Blog's Source From your Browser's View source option, then you will find that there are plenty of quick edit links on your blog even if you are not logged in(Do a Find for blogger.com ). These are the quick edit links and these will be hidden using CSS if you are not logged into your blogger account(but still be present in your blog as hidden links).

What is the use in Removing these Links?

You will be able to reduce the number of external links on your Blog and make it more Search Engine Friendly

Do i loose anything if i remove these Links ?

You will no longer see the Quick Edit pencil or wrench links on your blog . If you want to Edit a Gadget, you will have to go to the Layout > Page Elements Page .

Stumble Upon Count Buttons for Blogger

Like all other Social networks, StumbleUpon has also got some really elegant sharing buttons. StumbleUpon has got 6 different sharing buttons. You can choose any of these six. Integrating this into your blogger blog will require some template Edits.
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