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Are you allowed to remove footer links from free blogspot templates

by legoog8
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After reading a good piece advise on this forum about link juice bleeding away in web 2.0 i was thinking about my high pr blogspot blogs.... they use free templates to make them seem better.... but with footer links going off to stupid random websites... or the designer puts in 3 credit links.... above the code on the footer there can be stuff like this

"(dcma) DONT REMOVE FOOTER LINKS BLAHAHAHA.... CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE)

But in the wordpress forums theres a whole thread about just getting rid of annoying footer links....

What can i do?

I dont mind crediting the owner in some way maybe even making a thank you for the theme post.... but advertisement links or tons of desnged b converted by brought to you by all in one footer isnt good
#allowed #blogspot #footer #free #links #remove #templates
  • Profile picture of the author dalegolden
    Just use the "Edit HTML" from the "Design" section and remove those links. You can use your link instead. I have done this a lot of time before.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      It's not as simple as editing the html. Not sure why you would
      say that. You have to change a setting in a widget, and I am
      not sure if google makes this possible anymore. You might
      get error messages or something else.

      Just do a search for how to remove attribution link in blogspot
      for many tutorials, try it, and see if it works.

      If not, then why are you using someone's templates without
      wanting to give them credit?

      You can take any stock blogger template and do ANYTHINZG you
      wish with the click of a mouse. Customize away!

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      • Profile picture of the author Lanx
        actually you can take ANY template and customize it, a template is only a template, their work means nothing, since it is built upon a free platform. for more info check out the licenses at places like woo themes/forrest

        at most they say we can't support you, but they also can't really charge it, they're actually charging you for "access", there is no ownership of a template.
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        • Profile picture of the author paulgl
          People, the atribution is a widget. It's not as simple as just
          editing html. It's probably locked or hidden. It needs to be
          unlocked or expanded. You can do this, I think. Just do a search on
          doing it. I'm too lazy. I should be too lazy to keep saying this.

          It's not easy to edit on purpose, and probably can get screwed up.

          I know in the past, if you edited it once, it was fine. If you did
          any other editing after, the bloody thing came back.

          Again, if you don't want to give credit where credit is due, then
          use one of blogger's. Done and done.

          Oh. Be sure and copy and save a text copy of the code so you can
          paste it back exactly if it blows up on you.

          If the template has any custom images, and the owner of those images
          is not fine with you not giving a link, beware.

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        • Profile picture of the author yukon
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          Originally Posted by Lanx View Post

          actually you can take ANY template and customize it, a template is only a template, their work means nothing, since it is built upon a free platform. for more info check out the licenses at places like woo themes/forrest

          at most they say we can't support you, but they also can't really charge it, they're actually charging you for "access", there is no ownership of a template.

          That's not true, the Themeforest license is for the CSS of the templates/themes, your buying a license for the CSS not a license for Wordpress or any other free CMS. Without the CSS the page might as well be a Google Cache text version of the web page (bare bones page).

          OP is talking about Blogger, I don't think anyone (any major sites) sell Blogger templates.
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          • Profile picture of the author paulgl
            Originally Posted by yukon View Post

            OP is talking about Blogger, I don't think anyone (any major sites) sell Blogger templates.
            Probably because lots of folks do it for the fun...or maybe a little traffic.
            Besides, blogspot is so dang easy to adapt, I can't see a reason for
            using anyone's custom template, with or without a link.

            I was going to be sarcastic and say that the internet runs on "free"
            platforms, html, html5, php, asp, not to mention open source stuff
            like ruby on rails, etc.

            Like, um, you can't copyright or trademark anything online I guess.

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