Don't like Blogger's default country redirect then this post is going to help you a lot. Google is updating Blogger daily and many new features has been introduced or going to be introduced. One is automatic country domain redirect. Go through the post and you will find for what you were searching for.
What is country redirect: When someone visit your Blogger blog she or he is redirected to her/his country's local domain, for example, if your blog is http://yourblogsubdomain.blogspot.com, and if someone visited the blog from India, then the blog will be automatically redirected to http://yourblogsubdomain.blogspot.in. This is the Blogger's service of auto country redirect.
Why country redirect is implemented by Google in Blogger: Google says that they are providing this service so that they can manage and provide the content locally. You can read more about why country redirect on Blogger on Google answers.
Solution from Google: If you want to visit a blog on .com then you have to type /ncr after the blog's URL. For example, http://yourblogsubdomain.blogspot.com/ncr.
Why you should remove country redirect from Blogger?: Here are some reasons for you for removing auto country redirect from your blog.
- Low number of backlinks: If someone share your blog's link on his website or blog, she or he will copy that from address bar and will paste on his website, therefore using your blog's local domain of their country. This link will not counted as backlink to your blog's international domain i.e. on .com. Google pagerank also depends on backlinks to your blog, therefore auto country redirect also influences your page rank.
- High Alexa rank: No country redirect also help you increase your Alexa rank. Because Alexa rank is different for different URLs. This is the reason why Google is on number two (Facebook is on number one) in Alexa ranking, because Google has local domains for many countries like http://www.google.co.in in India. Therefore their visitors will be counted separately and they will be provided different ranks on Alexa. http://www.google.com is ranked 2 while http://www.google.co.in is ranked between 5th to 10th position, if the visitors of these domains are totalled then Google will be on 1st position.
- Your other personal reason: You can have your own personal reason like you are confused with using different URLs and SEO optimization.
How to remove country redirect from Blogger?: If you have decided to remove auto country redirect from your blog, then you can follow the following steps to do so.
- Go to Blogger, then to your blog
- From dashboard, go to template.
- Now click on edit HTML
- Find <head>. You can do this by pressing Ctrl + F and typing <head>
- Now paste the following code below <head> tag
- Save the template.
Everything is done. Now you will be automatically redirected to the international domain or URL. Therefore stopping country redirect.
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