The "Next Blog" link on the Navbar makes your blog part of the blogosphere. Someone clicking on "Next Blog" from their blog (or a third party's) randomly lands on your blog. The random nature - never the same blogs twice - makes the "Next Blog" appealing, and provides readers to new blogs.
But the random nature is a double edged sword. You never know where you're going, when you click there. Sometimes, you end up where you don't want to go. If you have a blog targeted to those of impressionable minds (children for instance), you may not want the readers of your blog next blogging from yours.
So you block the Navbar on your blog. Find the 3 lines of code shown below, that are in the template now, and add the first line of code to immediately precede them. This will be at the end of the blog header, just before the blog body. In a normal template, and without "Expand Widget Templates" selected, this will be 4/5 towards the bottom of the template. Backup the template, before, and after, you make this modification!
#navbar-iframe {height:0px;visibility:hidden;display:none} <== Add this line,
]]> <== immediately above
<== these 3 lines,
<== that are already there.
Now, no next blog surfing from your blog (though still possible from others). And now, your blog becomes less of a member of the Blogosphere. You're getting readers (from other Bloggers using "Next Blog" to click to yours), but you're not providing readers to other blogs (from other Bloggers potentially using "Next Blog" to click from yours).
Blogger Support says :
While it's not officially against our TOS, we discourage folks from removing it because we think it's a great feature with more improvements to come.Follow the above instructions at your own peril, as Blogger controls the TOS and has been known to change it. Their ball, their ball game.
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