The Blogger navbar will remain on your site, if you have your blog hosted through Google. I believe their policy requires the navbar to remain if you are using their free hosting. If however, you hosted your blog through a different host, then you are supposed to be able to remove the Blogger navbar if you wish. In regards to getting your blog picked up by search engines, it can sometimes take several weeks before the Google spider finds your site as well as other search engines. It also takes time after you have written many posts to get your site ranked for specific keywords. You might want to read some of our posts here in regards to keywords. I hope that is of help to you! Thanks for stopping by.

I certainly could be wrong, but here’s my understanding of Blogger’s policy for their nav bar (Navigation Bar for those who don’t know what “Nav Bar” is). If you are using Blogger’s free hosting for your blog, even if you have your blog on your own domain then yes, you do still have to comply with Blogger’s policy to show the nav bar.

However, if your blog is hosted by another provider other than Blogger, then you are able to do away with the Blogger nav bar. Having your blog hosted for free by Blogger is the tradeoff for complying with their nav bar policy.

Their policy is perhaps different from what my understanding is, so you will want to refer to their terms of service for the correct information.

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The only cost involved with using Blogger on your own domain is just the annual charge for the domain itself. That is, unless you select to use a host for the domain other than Blogger’s free hosting.

The cost of a domain itself is only around $10.00 a year or less, depending on where you purchase the domain. When I set my two blogs up on my own domain I bought the domain at the same time through Google, using the Blogger platform dashboard option to do so. That was $10.00 through a Google partner. Purchasing the domain from within the Blogger dashboard was the easiest route to go since the domain is already pointed to their servers. So, for only $10.00 I rolled my existing blogspot blog onto my own domain! Total cost for both my blogs was of course $20.00 for the domains. In less than 15 minutes my blog was moved from the old blogspot address to my own domain! It was a very easy process!

The other option as mentioned above is to use the Blogger platform on your own domain, but hosted elsewhere. That is where you would incur more charges though, which would be a monthly amount or annual charge, and that varies quite a bit depending on what host you would go with.

For me, I decided I could live without ftp access for the two blogs I switched over to my own domains from a blogspot address, so it made sense to use Bloggers free hosting. If however, you want ftp access, and if you do not want to have to comply with Blogger’s policy to display their ugly Navbar at the top of your site, then you will need to pay for hosting your domain somewhere other than Blogger.

Long explanation, but I hope that answers your question! Thank you for reading my article.