Google owned Blogger had made this change from today. So when ever a user in INDIA try to visit the blogs that are of INDIANS they will be redirected from Blogspot.com to Blogspot.in domain. While for rest of the world, it will not be get redirected. For example considered below for mine blog.
The original url of page : http://rajeevkumarsinghblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/blogger-redirecting-blogspot-domain-in.html
This is the redirected page url : http://rajeevkumarsinghblog.blogspot.in/2012/01/blogger-redirecting-blogspot-domain-in.html
First only INDIAN user will noticed the Blogspot.in domain url for your every posts. Rest will still have Blogspot.com in the url. Blogger had precisely redirecting all url so that they do not end up with 404 error for any post. Most of the user even will not noticed the changes at the moment but, they will comes to now slowly. There is no changes been for those who own the custom domain for the blogger's blog.
What are the Problems?
- Problem in SEO: If you getting linked with Blogspot.com then in INDIA it will redirected to Blogspot.in, but same is not true for Blogspot.in links. So Blogspot.in url will be visible to INDIAN user only and if user from other countries try to visit through the link it will show errors. Hence a bit of problem in for SEO.
- Alexa rank problems: Since you will have two different url for the same blog, the traffic will surely divides and might you will lose you Alexa ranks. Both the url ( Blogspot.in and Blogspot.com) will have diffrent alexa ranks, surel the rank of Blogspot.com will drops.
- Social Sharing problem: Since Now url is changed offcourse, if a user in INDIA share it on social media sites it will be Blogspot.in url and those who share and are out of INDIA will share Blogspot.com url. Hence say, your Facebook likes or Tweeter counts will be not added for both url to merge as one, they will have separate counting. This problem will for all the sharing site site including Google Plus, Diggs, Stumbles etc.
- Problem with Search Engines: This change of having two url for same post will have negative expression on Search engines. Even if Google didn't make any changes as they own Blogger( which they are suppposed to be doing) other like Bing and Yahoo will not favour.
- Problem of interlink: Some time it would be difficult for a blogger if he didn't precisely works while posting the interlinks in the posts. He might linked the url with Blogspot.in, which will be visible by INDIAN only and rest will see an error. Quite frustrating!
- Page Loading Speed: I had seen the page loading take more time then it was way before. I might think this problem will not be there anymore.
Any Solution?
There is no solutions for these problem. They can only solve by Google if they withdraw this change. However, in user's part they can view the original Blogspot.com by adding /ncr. which is suggested by Digital inspiration's Amit Agarwal.
Example : http://rajeevkumarsinghblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/google-developed-android-apps-are-most.html/ncr
But question is will user bother to do this? I feel they will not.
Another thing he added, to have the following link in the templates between the closing and opening head tags.
<link expr:href="data:blog.url" rel="canonical"/>
But having this will only prevent search engines problem but waht about others???? Google need to think and bring with some better idea to make sure all blogger get happy. Put your comments and let me know what you think about it.
There is no solutions for these problem. They can only solve by Google if they withdraw this change. However, in user's part they can view the original Blogspot.com by adding /ncr. which is suggested by Digital inspiration's Amit Agarwal.
Example : http://rajeevkumarsinghblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/google-developed-android-apps-are-most.html/ncr
But question is will user bother to do this? I feel they will not.
Another thing he added, to have the following link in the templates between the closing and opening head tags.
<link expr:href="data:blog.url" rel="canonical"/>
But having this will only prevent search engines problem but waht about others???? Google need to think and bring with some better idea to make sure all blogger get happy. Put your comments and let me know what you think about it.