Some Blogger blog owners are confused about their ability to redirect traffic to, or from, their blogs. Sometimes this leads to problems, as in the need to report a problem with spam classification, in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken
Other people will want to know why, after renaming their blog, all the search engine references now point to a dead URL. Still others may want to rename specific posts, and yet have the post URLs match the new titles.
Blog URLs, and Post URLs, are complex details, for Blogger blogs. By default, both are managed for you. Not everybody understands how to manage blog and post URLs, when necessary.
Not every blog owner understands that ones readers are not possessions, to be manipulated at will. Many spammers would love to use various Blogger blogs as gateways, redirecting their readers either to other Blogger blogs, or to non Google controlled websites. In order to discourage spamming activity, neither type of redirect is permitted, by the Blogger spam classifier.
If you rename your blog - and publish to a new URL, your only recourse is to publish a "stub" (empty) blog to the old URL, and visually redirect your readers.
You can, if you wish, redirect the blog feed, after renaming the blog - but this should be done under specific circumstances.
There are several specific cases where the blog feed should not be redirected.
Blogger recently provided us the option to redirect traffic from one blog post to another - but the syntax used by the post redirect wizard explicitly prevents redirection outside the base blog URL. That said, we have seen some imaginative redirections - between different URL constructions.
So you can redirect some URLs - but you need to understand what you can, and cannot do - and why you cannot do everything.
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Other people will want to know why, after renaming their blog, all the search engine references now point to a dead URL. Still others may want to rename specific posts, and yet have the post URLs match the new titles.
Blog URLs, and Post URLs, are complex details, for Blogger blogs. By default, both are managed for you. Not everybody understands how to manage blog and post URLs, when necessary.
Not every blog owner understands that ones readers are not possessions, to be manipulated at will. Many spammers would love to use various Blogger blogs as gateways, redirecting their readers either to other Blogger blogs, or to non Google controlled websites. In order to discourage spamming activity, neither type of redirect is permitted, by the Blogger spam classifier.
If you rename your blog - and publish to a new URL, your only recourse is to publish a "stub" (empty) blog to the old URL, and visually redirect your readers.
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You can, if you wish, redirect the blog feed, after renaming the blog - but this should be done under specific circumstances.
There are several specific cases where the blog feed should not be redirected.
- Change the URL of the feed. Redirecting the blog feed, to simply change the URL, causes the feed to redirect to non existent content - or a dead feed.
- Publishing the blog to a non BlogSpot URL. Custom domain publishing provides automatic redirection of the blog URL - and by extension, the blog feed URL. Adding a feed redirect causes an infinite loop.
- Randomly expose the blog to new audiences. Redirecting the blog feed to a random redirector causes the blog readers to report a hijacked Reading List - and later, to simply remove the blog, using a redirected feed, from the Reading List.
Blogger recently provided us the option to redirect traffic from one blog post to another - but the syntax used by the post redirect wizard explicitly prevents redirection outside the base blog URL. That said, we have seen some imaginative redirections - between different URL constructions.
- Label search URLs.
- Page URLs.
- Post URLs.
So you can redirect some URLs - but you need to understand what you can, and cannot do - and why you cannot do everything.
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