In
efforts to country specific laws, Blogger began integrating country specific
redirection in blogs hosted on blogspot.com in February 2013. By this change blog
content could manage the more locally so if there was any offensive material
that violated a particular country's laws they could remove or block access to
that blog for that country through the assigned ccTLD.
However
it should be noted that it is still technically possible to access the blog
through No Country Redirect by entering the URL address using the regular Blogspot.com
and adding /ncr after the .com
Ex: [blog-name].blogspot.com
would become [blog-name].blogspot.com/ncr
With this country
specific URL there are a number of issues like:
- Your social stats (+1, Likes, Tweets) may fall dramatically due to the variations in domain.
- Your search ranking might be affected.
- If blogger is banned in a country with the help of local domain, your site can't be visited from there!
Though Google says, they
are trying to reduce the negative consequences for this problem. But why are
you waiting for Google's effort? You can force country specific domains to
redirect to .com version of your site with a simple script!
- Make sure you're signed in to your blogger's control panel.
- Now go to the template option.
- Click on Edit HTML.
- Find the <head> of your template and then copy the code below and place it just below the head tag. (Look at the image below)
- Save the template.
<script type="text/javascript">
var blog = document.location.hostname;
var slug = document.location.pathname;
var ctld = blog.substr(blog.lastIndexOf("."));
if (ctld != ".com") {
var ncr = "http://" + blog.substr(0,
blog.indexOf("."));
ncr += ".blogspot.com/ncr" + slug;
window.location.replace(ncr);
}
</script>
From now and then your visitors will be able
to visit the .com version of your site. I mean like that: http://newseoguideline.blogspot.com.
