How to Make Your Own Search Bar for Blogger
When you start a blog, your first few posts seem sad and lonely all by themselves online. However, once you get going, it's easy to accumulate so many posts on varying topics that you and your readers can barely find what you were writing about last month. If you're using Blogger -- home to the famous "Blogspot.com" URL and owned by Google -- you can add your own search bar to your blog. Adding your own search bar lets anyone search the entire contents of your blogs for specific keywords or phrases, making it easier to find your content.
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Instructions
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Navigate to Blogger.com and log into your account.
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Click the "Design" link for the blog to which you want to add a search bar on your "Dashboard."
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Click the "Add a Gadget" link in the right column of your page elements layout page.
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Click the "+" sign next to "Search Box." It is the seventh option down in the "Basics" category of gadgets.
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Type a title for your search bar into the "Title" field. This is the text that will display just above your search field. You can use "Search" and the name of your blog as the title.
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Check the box next to "This Blog" to display search results from within your blog's site. Check the "Linked From Here" box to include search results from pages to which you have linked. If you do not want general Web results to appear in search results, leave the box next to "The Web" unchecked.
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Click "Save" to add your gadget to your blog. Drag your gadget and drop it in the desired location on your page elements layout page.
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Click "Save" to apply your changes.
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