Blogger – How to view page hits statistics

You can actually effectively search even private blogs by entering your search in the NavBar at the top of the screen. Sadly, the "Search This Blog" widget doesn't work for some reason.

You can find the settings for the NavBar (which is ugly, in my opinion) under the "Layout" settings of your Blogger blog.

You can insert ads into individual posts: the trick is to turn on show break-characters instead of blank lines (I tried to spell this out here, but the HTML got interpreted!) in the post options before putting the code into the HTML tab of the post-editor.

Ref: http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2009/12/putting-google-adsense-advertisements.html