blogger blogspot redirection to country specified domain extention and SEO problem - Explained
Published by Aslam
If you are curious about your blogspot.com sub-domain you registered with a blogspot."com" suffix redirects to your country specified domain suffix?
In simple, do you wonder why your "youraddress.blogspot.com" redirects to "youraddress.blogspot.in" , "youraddress.blogspot.se" or "youraddress.blogspot.+any country specified suffix" ?
Please have a look at address bar above. what you see is my blogspot subdomain+country specified suffix.
If you are a visitor from india, then it might be "http://aslamise.blogspot.in/" in your address bar.
Does it really matter? Does this thing prevent our blog from getting higher page rank in Google?
After reading this Article, you will be able to understand everything about whats happening out there. :)
Do you know what are domain suffixes?
As Defined in Wikipedia
A top-level domain (TLD) is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet.[1] The top-level domain names are installed in the root zone of the name space. For all domains in lower levels, it is the last part of the domain name, that is, the last label of a fully qualified domain name. For example, in the domain name www.example.com, the top-level domain is .com (or .COM, as domain names are not case-sensitive). Management of most top-level domains is delegated to responsible organizations by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which operates the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) and is in charge of maintaining the DNS root zone.Blogger.com's suffix or top-level-domain is ".com".
So here we go. what are country specified suffixes? you might have the answer.
if it is in India, its ".in"
As blogger is a part of Google and they are unstoppable , they own almost top-level-domains in the internet for their websites. Our blogspot.com is one of them.
So when a user access our sub domain in blogspot.com from his country, blogger server automatically redirect it from server itself.
Be happy that you are in care of a master if you are using blogger to blog, and you own much top-level-domain-names for your sub-domain.
and your blog will never be down.
Does this blogger redirect thing matter in Google search and page rank?
NO. absolutely this doesn't matter any SEO for blogger blogspot blogs/sub-domains.
Because blogger automatically push the canonical link to blogger blogs.
For example, if i am redirecting to http://aslamise.blogspot.in even if i try to visit http://aslamise.blogspot.com,
blogger will push this to my blog.
<link href='http://aslamise.blogspot.com/' rel='canonical'/>
This tells the browser and bots that 'Original link is http://aslamise.blogspot.com and go fetch it.".
A canonical page is the preferred version of a set of pages with highly similar content.
So search bots will search them and fetch them instead of http://aslamise.blogspot.com instead of http://aslamise.blogspot.in.
If you cant see a
<link href='http://yourblog.blogspot.com/' rel='canonical'/>in source code of your blog's homepage, it says that you edited your blog's template or its a third party template which doesn't pull blogger information properly.If you cant see then, Lets solve the rel='canonical' issue in your blogger template!
- Go to www.blogger.com
- Sign in with your account
- Take Edit Template option
- Find <head> tag in your template by searching(Ctrl+F)
- Add below line after the <head> tag.
<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>
- Save your template and Now you are done.
Check again in source code of the homepage whether canonical link displays or not.
Hope you enjoyd and understood this article.
If you have any questions, please ask me in comments :)
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