How to automatically redirect Blogger blog to another blog or website
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 or 302 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.
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.
How to redirect Blogger blog to another blog / URL / Website
Here we 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
- Now you can see template codes. Press CTRL + f and then find <head>
- Now add the following code below head tag like you see in the image below.
1 | <script type= 'text/javascript' > |
2 | var d= '<data:blog.url/>' ; |
3 | d=d.replace(/.*\/\/[^\/]*/, '' ); |
4 | location.href = 'http://blogtimenow.com' ; |
In the above code change
http://blogtimenow.com which is the destination URL. Now all your pages from the blog will be redirected to destination URL.
Now we will see another piece of code that redirects particular blog
URL to another blog or website. If you wish not to redirect the whole
blog then you have to make use of this code. Also you can use this for
redirecting user from a particular page to another external website for
promotional purpose.
To do this just paste the following code below head tag and change
the from URL that is http://yourblog.blogspot.com and destination URL
that is
http://blogtimenow.com
2 | if (window.location.href == 'http://yourblog.blogspot.com ' ) |
4 | window.location= "http://blogtimenow.com" ; |
The above code just redirects user from the specified BlogSpot URL to another website or URL.
Here comes another code; with this you can redirect all your blog
pages including home page to another blog or website with specific set
time. So users who lands in your blog will be automatically redirected
to anther blog after a specific time period.
1 | <meta content= '5;url=http://tovleng.blogspot.com' http-equiv= 'refresh' /> |
This is the code, just copy and paste below the head tag in your
template file. In the above code 5 is the set time where users will
redirected to
tovleng.blogspot.com
in 5 seconds after landing.