Free Blog Templates

Early in 2008, there were a few bloggers who were converting templates for Blogger, one of the was Gosu and the other person was Jacky and their Blogger templates were really popular, thanks to their templates they were able to drive tons of traffic a day and they were also able to get listed in Alexa top 10K websites. They sold their websites for really great amounts since they managed to get uncountable number of natural backlinks with the help of your Blogger templates.

Nowadays there are many Blogger template designers and converters who release their templates for free. Additionally many Blogger fan created template gallery websites and make Blogger users easily find the template they are looking for.

What Kind of Blogger Templates Should You Choose

  • Blogger templates must load quickly so be sure to chose templates with less images.
  • Template images must be hosted in Blogger, not in Flickr, imageshack or photobucket.
  • 3 columns Blogger templates are best for make money online bloggers.
  • Personal bloggers had better chose templates with 2 columns.
  • You should choose a template that suits your blog’s main topic.
  • Do not chose Blogger templates that require ajax or jscript to work properly.
  • Pick up templates with text header titles, it may be hard to edit header logo and make it fit.
  • Be sure to test your Blogger template in major browsers, especially in Internet Explorer.
  • The template you pick up must have valid markup structure for better SEO and look.

Things to Do When You Choose a New Blogger Template

  • First of all, back up your previous template.
  • Customize your template header for better SEO ( I will explain it soon ).
  • Fill sidebar columns with Blogger gadgets to make it look better.
  • Edit navigation bar links and change the links with yours.
  • Test search box, RSS links since they may be linked to different blog.
  • Check single pages and test comment boxes.

There are more than 3000 free Blogger templates available for Blogger users. Some of these templates are reachable through gallery pages and some of templates can be downloaded from designers’ or converters’ personal blog. But you can be sure that it will be hard for you to pick up a template since there are already many beautiful blog templates, so as a team we wish good luck for you.

Keep in your mind that you can always find free premium Blogger templates in our templates gallery since we update our gallery daily with new blog templates. So subscribe our feeds or bookmark us to check us back easily or get notified when we add new Blogger templates.

In my next article, I am going to share some killer white hat search engine optimization tips for Blogger.