How to Stop Blog redirection to a country-specific URL (ccTLD)?
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.
