Blogger redirects to country specific Domain/URL

Bloggers would be surprised to see that their blogspot URL changes automatically to their country specific URLs. This is because Blogger and Google have decided to redirect all blogspot pages to their respective country specific domains. For example by blog http://bloggerbasicsforbeginner.blogspot.com automatically redirects to http://bloggerbasicsforbeginner.blogspot.in/ when I open my blogspot in India. Similarly if my blogger is opened in australia the URL would automatically be directed to http://bloggerbasicsforbeginner.blogspot.au/.

There will be lots of issues related to this change which needs to be figured out as early as possible. The prominent issue will be the impact on page ranks. For example let us say that your website has an alexa ranking of 1,000 and Google Pagerank as 3. Now after this redirection of URLS to country specific domains your blog will not be recognized by Alexa and the Google Pagerank will be N/A.

Why this Change?

This is what the Blogger support said as the reason for the change: "Migrating to localized domains will allow us to continue promoting free expression and responsible publishing while providing greater flexibility in complying with valid removal requests pursuant to local law. By utilizing ccTLDs, content removals can be managed on a per country basis, which will limit their impact to the smallest number of readers. Content removed due to a specific country’s law will only be removed from the relevant ccTLD."

Where we can see the change?

We can see the change only at the blog URL address.

Will this change affect my blog?

There will not be any changes to your blog expect for the URL redirecting to the country specific domain.

Will there be any change to search engine optimization SEO on my blog?

Due to this change the blogspot content will be see on different domains. Duplicate contents on different domains will have an effect on search results. But Google is taking every effort to minimize the issues and to find a solution for this as early as possible.

How to redirect my blog to .com?

Bloggers can use this tip below to redirect their blog to .com. You need to type the /ncr at the end of your blog address. For example the address should be like http://[blogname].blogspot.com/ncr. This will always redirect to the U.S English blog.

This defeats the purpose of the URL redirecting by Google.


Possible questions to be answered by Google

How Google is going to determine traffic data?

How Google is going to come up with the Pagerank issue?

It is still early stage and we have more questions than answers right now. Hope to see Google come up with a solution for these issues.

Till then don't worry and keep blogging.

For more details visit Google Support

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Simple tip to Add Social bookmark links below your blog posts

Bloggers usually use the Social bookmark links to share their blog content. Readers who read the blog article can use these social bookmark links to share the blog to the rest of the world. There are many social bookmark links available online. The most widely used are the Facebook, Digg, Technorati, Delicious, Stumbleupon etc.

You can easily use these social bookmark links in your website by following the simple steps mentioned below.



Note: Please take a backup of your existing template before making any changes to the template.

1. In your Blogger dashboard, go to “Layout” => “Edit HTML”.

2. Check “Expand Widget Template” option.

3. Search for the following line in the code

<div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1">
4. Add the code given below just after the above line

<b><i>Share this:</i> | <a expr:href='"http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'>Digg It</a> | <a expr:href='"http://technorati.com/faves?add=" + data:post.url' target='_blank'>Add to Technorati</a> | <a expr:href='"http://del.icio.us/post?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'>Save on Del.icio.us</a> | <a expr:href='"http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'>Stumble It</a> | <a expr:href='"http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'>Share on Facebook</a> | <br/><i>Widget by:</i> | <a href='http://bloggerbasicsforbeginner.blogspot.com/' target='_blank'>Blogger Tips and Tricks</a> | </b>
5. Save the template

6. Below is the screenshot of the social bookmark link.

You are ready to have the social bookmark link below your blog post. Use this in your blog and share your blog resources to the rest of the world!

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Improve Alexa ranking for your website free

Before going into increasing the Alexa ranking for website I would like to give a brief description of what is Alexa for those who are new to blogging.  

What is Alexa

Alexa is a website which calculates the traffic ranking of each blog using their own data sources. The data is collected from the web usage of Alexa toolbar and also the data collected from other data sources. Alexa computes the number of page views for all sites and based on the information ranking is given for the websites.

How to improve Alexa ranking

There are many websites that claim to increase the alexa ranking one way or the other. But many of them fail to live up to the expectation. there is one website that I came upon which will improve your alexa ranking for free. The website is Upmyrank. Upmyrank sends around 1,000 of visitors to your website daily if we participate in their Traffic Exchange program.

How Upmyrank works

Join Upmyrank and start viewing the websites of other members. This can be done through their Autosurf software. You will get a credit point for every ad that you see. You can earn more credits if you surf more. The important point is you need to have installed the Alexa toolbar in your browsers before running the Upmyrank Autosurf software.

You can join upmyrank by clicking the below link
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Most popular social networking sites to promote your blog articles

Social Networking is one of the better ways to promote your blog articles and to bring traffic to your blogs. This way you can reach a wider audience who will have a chance to have a look at your blog articles.

There are many social networking sites present in the internet. I had listed the best social networking sites below to promote blog articles.

Facebook
Twitter
Google plus
Stumbleupon
LinkedIn

Facebook

This is the number one social networking site that can be used effectively to promote your blog articles. There are more than 800 million active users present in this site. Almost 50% active members login daily to this website. You can share your blog posts in facebook which can be easily viewed by many members. If you are not a member of facebook click the below image to join.

Twitter

Twitter has a user base of more than 100 million. 40% of its members are active daily. Twitter has the option to support 17 different languages. It is the next best popular social networking media than facebook. You can also use twitter to promote your blog articles. If you are not a member of twitter click the below image to join.

LinkedIn

LinkedIn is one of the best social networking site which has more than 100 million members. You can promote your blog articles through LinkedIn to get more traffic to your website. If you are not a member of LinkedIn click the below image to join.

Stumbleupon

Stumbleupon has a user base of more than 20 million. Stumbleupon is not known well by all though it can drive good traffic to your articles. IT has contiguously grown very well last year and would expect to rise more this year. If you are not a member of Stumbleupon click the below image to join.

Google plus

Goolge plus has 10 million member as its user base. this is one of the newest social networking site that is growing fast to give a competition to facebook and twitter. It is from the google stable and you can expect that posting your blog articles here will have a greater chance of visibility to a wider audience. If you are not a member of google plus click the below image to join.

Try to share your post to the above mentioned social networking sites. You can see increase in traffic to your blog in due course.

To know how to add share button to your blog post follow the article Simple tip to Add Social bookmark links below your blog posts

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Simple step to prevent others from copying contents of your blog

All of us would like our blog articles not to be copied by others. But there are some people who would steal the contents of articles from blogs and websites. To prevent or to safe guard our articles from these bad people we need to protect the content of our articles.This can be done by applying the following simple step.

Copy the below script and paste it in any HTML/Javascript widget in your blog. This code will take care to disable copying the contents of your blog.

<script type="text/javascript"> var omitformtags=["input", "textarea", "select"] omitformtags=omitformtags.join("|") function disableselect(e){ if (omitformtags.indexOf(e.target.tagName.toLowerCase())==-1) return false } function reEnable(){ return true } if (typeof document.onselectstart!="undefined") document.onselectstart=new Function ("return false") else{ document.onmousedown=disableselect document.onmouseup=reEnable } </script>

Try applying this script to disable copying the contents of your blog.

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Genuine website to learn and earn money online

I know many of us would have come across many websites that would have a caption "Earn money online". Many of us would have joined those websites and would have found that it is not as easy as they have promoted in their websites. It is hard to find a genuine website which can pay for our efforts. Don't worry, I am going to talk about a genuine website where you can learn and earn money online.

I myself was a member of this site and had earned money for the articles that I posted in this site. They also have a Google Adsense Revenue sharing Program where you can earn Adsense revenue for the articles that you post in their website.

There is no joining fees
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It's free!!!

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About IndiaStudyChannel

IndiaStudyChannel is the best website that I came across where you can learn and earn money online. The main aim of this website is to provide articles related to education which will be useful for students and teachers in India. The various articles are posted by members who had joined this website. All the articles are reviewed by the editors and approved for points and Cash credits.

How much you can earn from IndiaStudyChannel

IndiaStudyChannel is the best educational website that I came across where you can learn and earn money online. The money you earn is directly dependent on how much time you can spend in this website. If you can spend 4 to 5 hours daily in this website you will surely earn Rs. 10,000 to 20,000 per month. You need to write articles in your own words and post it in their website. Depending on the article you can earn cash credits. When you reach Rs.1000 they will pay you through cheque or through online transfer to your bank account.

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There are lots of sections in this website where you can post articles of your choice. Each section will give you cash credits depending on the content that you write. The sections that you can earn money are

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The other options to earn are

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Why I recommend IndiaStudyChannel

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