How to Stop Blogger Country Specific Redirection

I think all of you are aware of the Blogger Country Specific Redirection issue. In this article I will show you why it is bad for your blog SEO.

For those who are not aware about this :-

Blogger redirects you to your country specific domain (ccTLD) for example if you are from Canada and try to visit any exampleblog.blogspot.com it will redirect you to exampleblog.blogspot.ca, if you are from UK it will redirect you to the .co.uk domain.

Blogger (Google) does it to make their task easy of managing content according to the local laws so if a blog content violates rules of UK but in Canada the content doesn't violates any law, google will block access to the blog on the local country url.

You can still visit the .com url by adding /ncr after the url you can try visiting google.com/ncr

Why Blogger Country Redirect is Harmful for your site's SEO

Google has themselves mentioned on their site that this redirect can affect your search engine optimization.

1. A search engine bot who visits your site from X country will see your blog content on the X country domain then the same company's search engine bot visits your site from Y country will see your blog content on Y country domain. This will confuse the search engine bot and the bot may think your Y country blog is a copy of X country blog and penalize you for duplicate content.

2. Your social networking sites stats may show different results for different countries moreover if your friend is from another country and shares his country specific url and you try to visit his shared url you will get a not found page error.

3. If someone from X country mentions your site's url on any site that gets visitors from many different country and anyone from Y country tries to visit the same shared link he might land on a error page instead of your blog.

How to Stop the Redirection

<script type="text/javascript">

      var blog = document.location.hostname.split(".");

      if (blog[blog.length - 1] != "com") {

        var ncr = "http://" + blog[0] + ".blogspot.com/ncr";

        window.location.replace(ncr + document.location.pathname);    

      }

    </script>

To prevent the blogger redirection go to your blogger dashboard.

Then Template >> Choose Edit Html >> Proceed

Copy Paste the above highlighted code and save.

This will redirect all of your visitor from any country to the .com url and keep all your link juice flowing to the .com url