Because of Blogspot versatility and ease of use for non-programmers, Google's Blogspot hosting service provides a great platform on which to start any new blog. However, if you've moved your google Blogspot to another hosting service or you've begun a website on another hosting plan server, you may want to move your blog readers to your new blog or website. By injecting a simple snippet code in HTML of your old blog's template, you can automatically redirect blog visitors to your new blog or any other site.
The blog redirection will be beneficial if you have just moved to a new domain with the new blogging platform. You are always limited in Google Blogspot blog that’s why most of moving to different host like WordPressress blogs platform. Usually, you won’t get much traffic to the new blog when you just migrate. Also, your old blog will have proper traffic flow from organic search results as well as from backlinks. So by applying these redirection methods, you can handle traffic from your old blog to your new blog and also it transfers all the ranking factors.
Google Blogspot Blog is providing you features with search preference like adding search description, adding robots.txt as well as setting custom redirects. All that deals with SEO and so you have to make proper use of that. Setting custom redirects is one of the best ways to avoid broken links and reduce 404 error pages. Here we will discuss automatically Redirect blog and the use of redirecting your old blog URL to new external website URL.
When to use the blog redirection
Automatically Redirect blog to another blog, URL or Website
Here we will give 3 different methods and HTML codes that automatically redirect blog to your old Blogger URL to another new blog, website or URL and each code do different tasks.
Let’s say you want to redirect your entire Google Blogspot to another page, website or URL. That is redirecting your blog homepage, posts page, archives page and all other URL in your blog to another specified external website. You have to apply this if you just jump to a new domain. To do this you are going to make the modification to your blog template file. So before you start editing the codes it’s necessary that you back up your blog template first.
Let’s say you want to redirect your entire Google Blogspot to another page, website or URL. That is redirecting your blog homepage, posts page, archives page and all other URL in your blog to another specified external website. You have to apply this if you just jump to a new domain. To do this you are going to make the modification to your blog template file. So before you start editing the codes it’s necessary that you back up your blog template first.
- Log in to your Blogspot account and select the blog which you want to automatically redirect the blog to another URL or website.
- Click the "Template" tab on the left menu of this window.
- Click the "Edit HTML" button in the main panel.
- Now you can see the template codes. Press "CTRL + f " Find the <head> tag in the header section and just past the following code after the <head> tag.
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL='http://www.yourblog.com/'" /> Replace "http://www.yourblog.com"
<script type='text/javascript'>
var d='<data:blog.url/>';
d=d.replace(/.*\/\/[^\/]*/, '');
location.href = 'http://blogtimenow.com';
</script> - With the complete URL of the new website which you want to redirect your old blog. See in the image below.
- Now Click the "Save Template" button.
- Next Click the "View Blog" button to test if the redirect code correctly redirects your old blog's visitors to the new website's URL which you want.
- In this HTML code change "http://blogtimenow.com" which is the destination website URL. Now all your pages from your old blog will be redirected to your new blog or website URL.
Redirect Specified Blog URL to Another Blog Post
Here are another lines of code that automatically redirect blog particular URL to another website or new blog. If you wish not to redirect the whole blog then you must use this code. This code can be used for redirecting the user from a particular blog page to another external website for the promotional purpose.Just paste the following code below the <head> tag in the HTML of your blog and change the from URL that is http://youroldblog.blogspot.com and destination URL that is http://newblogurl.com.
<script>
if(window.location.href=='http://yourblog.blogspot.com')
{
window.location="http://newblogurl.com";
}
</script> Redirect Home Page to Another Site
Here comes the third method of codes. With that, you can redirect all your google blog pages including your blog's home page to another site or blog with specific set time. So visitors who visit your blog will be automatically redirected to the new blog after a specific time period. Here is the code below. <meta content='5;url=http://blogtimenow.com' http-equiv='refresh'/> 