Blogger Country Specific URL (ccTLD)- Impacts in Traffic and Search Engine

Google has rolled out country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) for bloggers. It has been already implemented in India and we can see blogspot.com redirecting into blogspot.in when we open any blogger websites from India. You can read more from Blogspot.com redirects to Blogspot.in- What may be the reason?

Anyway here I will find some answers for questions which will be formed in every bloggers mind about ccTLD.

Yes, the ccTLD can make a significant drop in your blog traffic. The Google crawlers will be seeing same content in many domains. For example same blog contents will be seen on myblog.blogspot.com and myblog.blogspot.in. Even the official announcement from Google about ccTLD has mentioned about this fact. Anyway they also mention that their engineers are trying to avoid this difficulty caused by ccTLD

Yes, your blog ranking will be effected from ccTLD. Both the Alexa ranking and Google page rank is effected from ccTLD. As Alexa treats all country level domains as different websites, the alexa rank for each websites will be different. For example myblog.blogspot.in will be having different Alexa rank compared to myvlog.blogspot.com. Also Google page rank will also be reduced and the reason is similar to Alexa.

Social share buttons like Facebook Like, Google Plus and Tweet buttons are also effected from ccTLD. The likes which you got in blogspot.com will be different from that of blogspot.in. So the counting is effected by ccTLD.

Anyway we can expect some possible solutions from Google to reduce the impacts caused by ccTLD. Anyway if you want to escape from ccTLD, the best way is to buy a custom domain.