Stop Blogger from Redirecting Blogspot to Country Specific URLs
Let's say you're from France, for example, and you've set up a blog, Frenchlitgeek.blogspot.com, where you share your thoughts and opinions on French literature. Now, thanks to Google's country-specific Blogger redirects, you may be redirected to frenchlitgeek.blogspot.fr when you try to access your site. The thing is, they really liked the .com domain and didn't register for the .fr domain, but that's where they left off. Sure, your blog works, but you wonder why.
"We know there are real practical benefits to allowing people to express themselves freely," the message continued. It's important to allow people to express unpopular, uncomfortable, or controversial opinions. Not only is it right (Galileo believed), open discussion of complex problems often helps people come up with better solutions.
While the company clearly supports people expressing their opinions freely, it also believes the line needs to be drawn somewhere. However, for a company that serves more than 100 countries around the world, each with its own national laws and customs, it must be difficult for a company like Google to know where to draw the line.
However, there are issues such as child pornography, which is banned in almost all countries, where decisions are mixed.
How does Google, a company whose products are "specifically designed to help people create and connect, discover and share information and ideas around the world, address this challenge?"
One tricky area where Google deals with free speech issues is the blog, a content creation platform. Since Google can't verify what you post before it's posted, it relies on active users to provide appropriate warnings if a post is targeted by hackers. On the other hand, this is a serious problem in itself, because what may be offensive to one person may not be to another.
In other words, it's always a work in progress with Google.
Fast forward to January 9, 2012, when Google announced it was making changes to the Blogger platform due to censorship. This particular change uses country specific domains for the Blogger platform. This allows Google to censor country-specific content.
Google said in a statement, "Moving to a local domain allows us to continue to promote free speech and responsible publishing, and provides more flexibility to accommodate legitimate takedown requests under local law." "Depending on the country, their influence is limited to a small audience."
Google's move comes under pressure from countries like India who are working to regulate what they deem inappropriate content on social media sites. The move also follows Twitter's new censorship policy.
Since Google's mission is "to help people create and connect, find and share information and ideas around the world," it's strange that it bans a post in a certain area. Basically, country-specific routing allows some content to still be available globally, except in the country where it's blocked.
1. Decline of social statistics . These are your Facebook likes, Google +1, etc. From your blog posts. URLs for the same blog post can be shortened because they differ from where your readers are coming from.
2. Problems with external comment forums . For example, if you use Disqus for the comments section, you may run into problems because the blog URLs will be different even though the page access is basically the same.
3. Small problem with Adsense earnings . Some users have complained about reduced revenue when their pages are served from country-specific domains.
4. Problems with the number of references . You don't want foreign websites to link to your country-specific URL. But the problem here is that you have no control over how others link to your page. You can use a top-level domain or a country code top-level domain.
This is a great solution, but do you want your users to do this every time they visit your blog? All it takes is a simple redirect script to fix this problem and improve your site stats. That's how:
1. Login to your blogger account .
2. Click "Template" → "Edit HTML".
3. Get it Open the search box in the HTML editor with Ctrl + F.
4. Then copy the routing code shown below. Accounts
5. Click Save Template.
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This is the end! When someone accesses your blog, they're directed to a top-level domain, not a specific country domain.
Why did Google do this?
Google always supports opinion statement and has stated so on their official blog . In the year If we consider this or that newspaper to be complete nonsense, we all recognize that we are entitled to our opinion."We know there are real practical benefits to allowing people to express themselves freely," the message continued. It's important to allow people to express unpopular, uncomfortable, or controversial opinions. Not only is it right (Galileo believed), open discussion of complex problems often helps people come up with better solutions.
While the company clearly supports people expressing their opinions freely, it also believes the line needs to be drawn somewhere. However, for a company that serves more than 100 countries around the world, each with its own national laws and customs, it must be difficult for a company like Google to know where to draw the line.
However, there are issues such as child pornography, which is banned in almost all countries, where decisions are mixed.
How does Google, a company whose products are "specifically designed to help people create and connect, discover and share information and ideas around the world, address this challenge?"
One tricky area where Google deals with free speech issues is the blog, a content creation platform. Since Google can't verify what you post before it's posted, it relies on active users to provide appropriate warnings if a post is targeted by hackers. On the other hand, this is a serious problem in itself, because what may be offensive to one person may not be to another.
In other words, it's always a work in progress with Google.
Fast forward to January 9, 2012, when Google announced it was making changes to the Blogger platform due to censorship. This particular change uses country specific domains for the Blogger platform. This allows Google to censor country-specific content.
Google said in a statement, "Moving to a local domain allows us to continue to promote free speech and responsible publishing, and provides more flexibility to accommodate legitimate takedown requests under local law." "Depending on the country, their influence is limited to a small audience."
Google's move comes under pressure from countries like India who are working to regulate what they deem inappropriate content on social media sites. The move also follows Twitter's new censorship policy.
Since Google's mission is "to help people create and connect, find and share information and ideas around the world," it's strange that it bans a post in a certain area. Basically, country-specific routing allows some content to still be available globally, except in the country where it's blocked.
How will country-specific redirects affect your site?
Of course, not all site owners welcome country-specific URL changes with open arms. Among the issues raised in the transition:1. Decline of social statistics . These are your Facebook likes, Google +1, etc. From your blog posts. URLs for the same blog post can be shortened because they differ from where your readers are coming from.
2. Problems with external comment forums . For example, if you use Disqus for the comments section, you may run into problems because the blog URLs will be different even though the page access is basically the same.
3. Small problem with Adsense earnings . Some users have complained about reduced revenue when their pages are served from country-specific domains.
4. Problems with the number of references . You don't want foreign websites to link to your country-specific URL. But the problem here is that you have no control over how others link to your page. You can use a top-level domain or a country code top-level domain.
Stop redirecting Blogger to country-specific domains
What can you do if country-specific redirects impact important things like traffic and link equity that you need to rank well? Well, thankfully, Google has provided a way around this. All you have to do is add ncr/ to the end of the url - here ncr means no country redirect. So basically it goes to frenchlitgeek.blogspot.com/ncr/.This is a great solution, but do you want your users to do this every time they visit your blog? All it takes is a simple redirect script to fix this problem and improve your site stats. That's how:
1. Login to your blogger account .
2. Click "Template" → "Edit HTML".
3. Get it Open the search box in the HTML editor with Ctrl + F.
4. Then copy the routing code shown below. Accounts
5. Click Save Template.
1 credit
This is the end! When someone accesses your blog, they're directed to a top-level domain, not a specific country domain.
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