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Tuesday 31 January 2012

Google redirects your blogger url form .com to .in may be bad for you


A Change in Google blogger domain from .com   to .in

May be this seem a bad news for us but Google has changed its domain for their free blogger blog domains form .com to country code top-level domain (ccTLD) that is if you are from India your Blogspot url will change from abc.blogspot.com to abc.blogspot.in just like my blog url has been changed like this.
www.achieve-gate.blogspot.com to http://www.achieve-gate.blogspot.in/
this may harm your Google page rank because the back-links you have generated in last few years using 'blogspot.com' will not be used as before and it may decrease your page ranking. This change is not only for India but also for the rest of the world. As I have read after googling it will be helpful for checking duplicates content on different pages. So if you are a blogger user be ready to accept this change. One possible solution is what i get may help you in securing your page rank.

Solution: 

Open your Blogger template. Edit HTML button and copy-paste the following code anywhere between the <head> and </head> tags.

1. <link expr:href="data:blog.url" rel="canonical"/>

The above code is valid for the XML version of Blogger templates but if you are still using the Classic templates, the code you should use is little different 

1. <ItemPage><Blogger>

 2. <link href="<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>" rel="canonical"/>

3. </Blogger></ItemPage>

just use this between your <head>  and </head> tag

With this canonical tag, the search engine thinks the page as abc.com address even they get our blog as abc.in address.

I hope this solution may help us to secure our page rank and hope blogger come up with a good solution.


2 comments:

Saurabh said...

Hi i am Saurabh I was about to apply for the adsense program with my damain .com now as it is redirecting will it have any adverse effect ??
what URL shall I use??

vasu naman said...

No Saurabh actually google is directing only their blogspot domains so you don't need to worry about that because if some one has its own domain he will not be affected with this situation...

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