Recently
we have seen some unexpected changes on our Blog URL. That is Domain
URL is changing automatically. For example: from [blogname].blogspot.com
to [blogname].blogspot.com.in). This is not an error from your Domain
name provider. Many newbie think that their Blog URL is redirecting for
the malfunctioning, but in real this is done by Google itself. Based on
your Blog visitors your domain will automatically redirect to a country
specific URL (ccTLD).
The
prime reason behind country redirection domain is to implement the laws
to free expression and controversial contents. For example: Same law
is not application to all countries or geo locations. So When Google
receives a content removal request from local areas that violate local
law then content will be remove from the local domains.
So
this means country specific domains is not a different Blog address.
But your Blog domain will redirect based on the country where you are
currently located.
Does it affect my Blog?
- Country-specific URL (ccTLD) won’t affect you Blog.
- If you are using your Blog with custom domain then obviously it won’t affect by redirection
- BlogSpot domain users will see country specific domain but this is totally based on their location.
- It won’t affect your Blog visibility on search engine
- There
are a simple SEO related issue because in every crawl search engine
have to find your content from different domain. But Blogger is now
working on it that will make search engine to find content from
[blogname].blogspot.com version only.
List of Country-specific URL (ccTLD)
Generally we see Country-specific URL (ccTLD) in case of below countries-
- Argentina (blogspot.com.ar)
- Australia (blogspot.com.au)
- Brazil (blogspot.br)
- Canada (blogspot.ca)
- Germany (blogspot.de)
- India (blogspot.in)
- Indonesia (blogspot.co.id)
- Italy (blogspot.it)
- France (blogspot.fr)
- Japan (blogspot.jp)
- Mexico (blogspot.mx)
- New Zealand (blogspot.co.nz)
- Portugal (blogspot.pt)
- Spani (blogspot.cl)
- Sweden (blogspot.se)
- UK (blogspot.co.uk)
For
example you Blog URL is [blogname].blogspot.com but when users visit
your Blog from Canada then the URL will be changed to
[blogname].blogspot.ca but don’t worry it is not harmful for your Blog
Domain.
How to stop or prevent country redirection from your Domain?
Though
Google has introduced this function and they have also given the
solution. However we can prevent this function by 2 ways those has given
below-
- Prevent Domain redirection by ncr (No Country Redirect)
- Stop Domain Redirection by using JavaScript
1. Prevent Domain redirection by ncr (No Country Redirect)
This method has given by Google and this is very easy method. Just you have to add ncr at the end of your all URL.
http:// [blogname].blogspot.com/ncr
http:// [blogname].blogspot.com/ncr/p/disclaimer.html
http:// [blogname].blogspot.com/ncr/2016/03/stop-country-redirect-on-blogspot-with-javascript.html
However
this is a manual process and everybody don’t like this. Because every
time your Blog readers have to add ncr at the end of your Blog ULR. And I
think nobody would love to add ncr frequently.
2. Stop Domain Redirection by using JavaScript
Fortunately
we can use JavaScript to stop country specific redirection of Domain.
This is just one time integration process. After adding the JavaScript
your Blog will always redirect to your original domain.
Step 1 Log in to your Blogger account and Go to your Blogger Dashboard
Step 2 Click on -> Template -> Edit HTML
Step 3 Now Find this code by pressing Ctrl+F (Windows) or CMD+F (Mac)
Step 4 Copy the script from below and paste the code below/after
<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>
Step 5 Now simply click Save template button.
Now it will help to stop country-specific redirection on your Blog. Visitors won’t see any other Country-specific
URL (ccTLD) while they visit your site. This JavaScript will take your
visitors to top-level domain without any extra domain suffix.
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