All bloggers out there who use blogspot.com as there domain or in simple words we can say those who are using Google's Blogger and haven't yet set up a Third Party URL for their blogs may have noticed that whenever you open your blog by typing in your Unique Name followed by blogspot.com you are redirected to a country specific URL (i.e., blogspot.com redirects to blogspot.in if we open it from India) which include 15 countries.
Those countries are as follows:
- India [blogspot.in]
- Australia [blogspot.au]
- United Kingdom (UK) [blogspot.co.uk]
- Japan [blogspot.jp]
- NewZealand [blogspot.co.nz]
- Canada [blogspot.ca]
- Germany [blogspot.ge]
- Italy [blogspot.it]
- France [blogspot.fr]
- Sweden [blogspot.se]
- Spain [blogspot.com.es]
- Portugal [blogspot.pt]
- Brazil [blogspot.com.br]
- Argentina [blogspot.com.ar]
- Mexico [blogspot.mx]
Cons of having a Country Specific Redirect
- Likes and Shares for the same blog post will be reduced as the same post will work differently to different countries.
- If you are using an external commenting tool like Facebook comments plugin or Disqus then you may face the same problem happening with your shares, likes and page views.
- If you are blogging just to make money then the country specific redirect may decrease your income.
How to fix this