TechnoSlab

Google has recently changed the way blogspot domains work.

Now when you try to access a blogspot blog from India, you'll be redirected to blogspot.in instead of blogspot.com. This change will affect SEO, inbound links, Alexa ranks, Facebook fans, Google followers and several other aspects of blogspot blogs. I'm sure many blog authors are unhappy with the change.

As you can see, the Techno's Lab is redirecting to technoslab.blogspot.in when accessed from an Indian IP.

Blogger is redirecting to blogspot.in

You can prevent this from happening by sending your visitors to YOUR_BLOG.blogspot.com/ncr
Example: http://technoslab.blogspot.com/ncr

This is obviously not a permanent fix for the problem and I guess Google will come up with some good solution or at least a good explanation regarding this.


Edit:

I've noticed that when a user goes to technoslab.blogspot.in/ncr, Google sets a cookie NCR to value 1. Based on this idea, I've developed a small widget that shows up when someone is not on YOUR_BLOG.blogspot.com and asks visitors to go to the original blog URL and meanwhile sets the cookie NCR=1 so that when they visit your blog in future, they will land on the .com URL ( the original URL).

Here's the code for the HTML widget: http://pastebin.com/v9gjwCND