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Tuesday, 31 January 2012

Blogspot.com blogs are now transferred to Blogspot.in In India

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What the f*** is how I responded when I saw my alexa rank dropped from 180,000 to more than one million,seriously how Google can do it without any notification.

I think this is global change for all blogspot users, for example if you are living in India your blogspot
URL will be changed from blogspot.com to blogspot.in for indian visitors(my Guess).

I have tried to access my blog in other countries using proxy sites and noticed no change there, so
change this might be for Indian users only or for local blogs( it is unclear now as we have not noticed any announcement from Google or blogger team).


When I saw My my blogspot blog is transferred to .in, it was very frustrating experience for me
and it must be frustrating for other bloggers also.


How This Change Will Affect Your Blog?

Backlinks: No more backlinks to your new address and this is ridiculous as building Backlinks is not an easy job, I have spent about one year to build backlinks and that hurts a lot.

Alexa Rank: Your alexa rank will reduced to zero. Also Alexa will now record your data from different domains and assign different rank for them.

Page Rank: This will affect your page rank, my page rank dropped from 2 to zero.

Social Media Share: It will affect your social media share due to the presence of multiple url's of the same post. Personally I don't care about social media share numbers but I care about traffic and number of plus one's I get as it affect my seo and organic traffic.
Note: It will not affect facebook likes, if you have placed canonical tag on your blog.

Traffic: I don't think this will affect your traffic as your visitors are redirected from old URL's to new one.

SEO: will this affect your seo? my answer is both yes and no, yes because you will loose all your backlinks and pagerank and no because it will not affect your content.

Update1: Yes, it will affect your search engine optimisation(SEO) as crawler will find duplicate content from your site on many different domains and thus it will downgrade your rankings in search engine.
Conclusion: Ultimately it will kill your blog.

Update2: As .com version of your blog is still there for visitors from other countries, it will not kill your backlinks but it does affect your Alexa rank and Page Rank.

Update3: Use canonical tag on your blog to minimise any traffic loss due to duplicate content, also if you wish to visit .com version of your blog then use NCR(stands for "No Country Redirect") URL.

For example http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/ncr will always redirect you to .com version of your blog.

Update4: This update is rolled out in Australia and soon will be rolled out in every country except
US(I guess)

Blogspot URL in  Australia has been changed to http://yourblogname.blogspot.com.au/ from http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/

Update5: For Update explained by Google support click here


Update6: This is change is driven by the ongoing hearing against Google Inc in the Delhi High Court
and censorship issue in various other countries. Also this change gives Google the ability to selectively censor the blogspot blogs in various countries. For example, if you are living in india and Indian government orders Google to block your blog then Google can simply remove your .in version of your blog without affecting .com version of your blog.



What You can Do? 

There is nothing you can do about, Google want this change and they have imposed it.

Advice 

If you are affected by this move then you should buy a custom domain to protect your blog from future changes or you can just export your blog to other blogging platform like wordpress.


Your Thoughts

What you think about this change made by Google and how this will affect you, lets discuss this
thing in comment section below or you can add your thoughts on Google+



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12 comments

31 January 2012 at 16:24

leave blogging...!!!

31 January 2012 at 19:04

Hey rahul! I just noticed this. Google is crazy! Now our pages are UNRANKED.. and no damn word from them!!

31 January 2012 at 19:16

@SandipanI don't know What the hell Google is thinking, why they are not responding at least say a word about it.

31 January 2012 at 19:17

@iTechingAgree with you, either leave blogging or move on to other services.

1 February 2012 at 01:12

Planning to move to wordpress ASAP ! amazing analysis ..

1 February 2012 at 01:26

@kalyan inampudiWordpress too have some limitaion(if you are talking about wp.com blogs), in that case you can consider buying custom domain.

1 February 2012 at 17:30

dude I have been wanting to buy a custom domain anyways, this is now extra motivation to do so

1 February 2012 at 17:56

@Eugene MadondoGo for custom domain to boost your traffic, alexa rank and page rank this censorship issue has gone too far...

6 February 2012 at 16:50

Two Important tools for blog authors -The wrench tool to edit widgets and pencil icon below post to edit posts have disappeared in the .IN Blog versions, while it is still there in .COM versions..That is not fair at all..
Why punish the blog authors?
BTW, I moved to wordpress and imported my whole blog..But why is Wordpress immune from this legal actions in India which blogger, google etc are subjected to?
Or is it just a matter of time..?

6 February 2012 at 21:31

@Nagesh KumarIf you moved to wordpress, you might face complete censorship..

10 February 2012 at 15:34

Does this mean that we will now have to start backlinking to the .in extension? I am still creating backlinks to my blogspot.com domain rather than blogspot.in

11 February 2012 at 15:16

@SwayamI think .in and .com version of your blog has different page rank(I have personally varified this by visiting several blogs). So if you wish to have higher page rank for your .in version of your blog then start commenting with that url too..
thanks for asking.

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