I was surprised when I saw my blogspot.com blog is redirecting me to blogspot.in First I thought that I made some mistake or changed some settings. After doing some R&D I got to know that it’s not my mistake but the Blogger change. You must have observed this change recently.
From now your Blogger blogs will redirect to country-code top level domain, or "ccTLD." Like .ca, .au, .in etc.
Now my concern is will that affect blogs from SEO point of view? Will it create a duplicate content issue?
Well, this problem will be tackled by use of rel=canonical tag as explained by Google people. The .com version of BlogSpot will be canonical version to let crawler know that content is same but the URLs are different. Wow it’s a great relief now J
Also, let’s say you want U.S version of the BlogSpot content & you are in some other country, then you can request the same using formatted NCR i.e. “No country redirect” URL .
e.g. http://[blogname].blogspot.com/ncr will take you to U.S version of blog irrespective of your current location.
Ohh, it’s pretty good. Isn’t it?
Check official info at http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2402711
