As most
of us experienced, Google is redirecting blogs to country URL. For an example
consider blog address example.blogspot.com. If you are visiting this blog from
India you may redirected to example.bogspot.in. For some other user located in
Australia it will re direct to example.blogspot.com.au.
Google
do this to manage contents locally. They can now easily block entire blog or
some pages of blog. If they get a removal request, blog with violating content
can be blocked in that circle. To be more clearly, if some government bodies in
country X request Google to block blog, it can do the same under that country
URL. So example.blogspot.co.x is not available in that country X. But they are
available to all the visitors coming out of that country.
If
Google blocks, administrator of that blog get a notification email. And users,
who try to access the blocked content in the effecting area (i.e. inside
country X) sees a message showing this removal.
After
this change, hosting duplicate content on different domains can affect
search results. Crawlers will find and confused with Blog content on many
different domains even thought they are redirection of actual. It
will list all of them. It will adversely affect your blog
ranking, thus effect visitors. Visitors to the blog will reduce. It also
effects your earning, if you are afflicted to some ad publishing program other
than AdSense.
Two
solutions I like to share with you. First one is to use some custom URL. We can
choose either paid or free custom URL. If you are interested in paid URL, you
can get it from blogger itself or consult some domain registrars such as
godady.com. You can also choose free URL. Most popular free domain registrar is
dot.tk.
Secondly
method is cost effective and easy. It doesn’t force you to adopt an new domain
name. You need only to past an java script to your blog template. For that go
to your Blogger Dashboard (of the particular blog) and choose Template. Then
click the “Edit HTML” button followed by “Proceed.” Next, copy-paste following
code into template after <head> tag.
Click
the Save Template button and now your Blogger Blog will always serve with the
blogspot.com URL. It is very simple and 100% safe. It been already tested.