A few posts back we made an article about Blogger Custom Redirects in which you can redirect within your blog. That is you can redirect your specific post URL to another post or page, all 301 or302 Redirection within your blog.
That will be useful for redirecting 404 error pages and Broken Links; however with that you cannot redirect homepage to any particular URL.
Here we will show you how to automatically redirect Blogger blog to another blog or website or any URL. So with this technique you can redirect your Blogger Homepage or any particular page to external websites..
Heading Contents:
- How To Automatically Redirect Blogger Blog To Another Blog Or Website
- Why Should We Redirect Blogger Blog?
- When To Use This?
- Redirect Blogger Blog To Another Website
- Redirecting A Specific URL To An External Website
- Time Based Redirection
How To Automatically Redirect Blogger Blog To Another Blog Or Website
The redirect could be very important for a different purpose. We may need to redirect blogger to new address several. But still now many bloggers don't know how to redirect blogger blog. We should learn it because whenever you will think about to change your existing web address to a new one, you must set a redirection.
Otherwise, you will lose all of your existing visitors, ranking and backlinks. Another important solution I have published in our blogger solution section.
If you wish you may take a look on that. Now let’s come to the point!
Why Should We Redirect Blogger Blog?
I have already told you something that why should we redirect blogger blog. Now I will tell you in detail with some example. Suppose you had started a blog on blogger. We all know that blogger is a free third-party blogging platform. So you will not have the opportunity to customize or bring changes as the way you want.
So if you need to move on your self-hosted blogging platform what will you do? Will you left your old blog and start from the beginning?
No, my friend. You can not lose your hard work at any cost. In this case, you will need to redirect blogger blog after exporting.
Whenever you will redirect your old third party blog to your newly self-hosted blog, you will not lose any of your hard work and visitors. This is the best way to redirect blogger blog so we must learn how to properly redirect it.
When To Use This?
This one will be useful if you have just migrated to new domain with new blogging platform. You are always Limited In Blogger that’s why people moving to Self-Hosted wordpress blogs. Usually you won’t get much traffic to your new blog when you just shifted. Also your old blog will have some decent traffic flow from organic search results as well as from backlinks. So by using this method you can drive traffic from your old blog to your new blog and also it passes all the ranking factors.
Redirect Blogger Blog To Another Website
Here I will share three different codes that automatically redirect Blogger blog to another blog or URL and each code does different tasks.
Let’s say you want to redirect your complete Blogger blog to another page or URL. That is redirecting your homepage, posts page, archives page and all other URL in your blog to another specified external website. You have to use this if you just moved to new domain. To do this you are going to make changes to your template file.
So before you mess up with the codes it’s recommended that you BackUp Your Template first.
- Login to your Blogger dashboard.
- Go to template and click Edit HTML.
Remember:- Replace the URL "http:// yoursite. com" with your own website or blog URL.
- See the below image to clarify the steps.
Note:- In the above code change http:// yoursite. com which is the destination URL. Now all your pages from the blog will be redirected to destination URL.
Redirecting A Specific URL To An External Website
If you are intending to redirect a specific page to an external website rather than the above-mentioned code is not for you; however follow the same steps as of the above method but use the following <head> code and paste it just below
tag.
Replace the Page URL with the URL of the page, which you want to redirect and replace the URL http:// yoursite. com with the destination URL where you wish the page to be redirected.
Time Based Redirection
You might have seen pages redirecting to the main source of information after few seconds, this technique is mostly used in promotional activities. However, if you are looking forward to do something of that sort use the following code. Also follow the same steps for this method and paste this code just below <head> tag.
Replace the URL http://yoursite. com with yours own. If you wish to increase or decrease the time of transition, you can do it by changing 5 which is 5 seconds actually. Moreover, this code will redirect your whole blog to the external destination.
I have shown you three different methods to redirect your blogger blog and traffic to another website. Hope there will be no problem to set your own redirection but if something occurs, you may contact me for the solution through our comment section. to the external destination.
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This artical was last updated on July 25 2021
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